Plaintiff
4 cases as plaintiff.
HTC Corporation (Chinese: 宏達國際電子股份有限公司; historically "High Tech Computer Corporation"), commonly known as HTC, is a Taiwanese consumer-electronics manufacturer headquartered in Taoyuan City, Taiwan. Founded in 1997, it has been listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE: 2498) since 2002 and has no parent company. It is now a small-cap company: FY2024 consolidated revenue was NT$3.08 billion (roughly US$93 million) with a net loss of NT$3.42 billion, per its own results release. Reported headcount varies by source and date (roughly 1,500–3,900 depending on the filing or data vendor), reflecting heavy contraction from its smartphone peak.
Operations. HTC designs, manufactures, and sells smart mobile devices and immersive hardware. Its principal product lines are the VIVE virtual-reality headset platform (including enterprise "Vive Business" solutions), the VIVERSE metaverse/XR software ecosystem, the Viveport content platform, smartphones, and adjacent devices such as blockchain phones and wearables. VR/XR and smart mobile devices account for the bulk of revenue; the company also licenses technology.
Litigation posture. HTC is an operating company, not a patent assertion entity. Across the three tracked cases it appears twice as a defendant and once as plaintiff. One defense is against a well-known non-practicing entity and one against a large operating competitor; its single plaintiff-side case is a declaratory-judgment action seeking to invalidate patents it was being accused of infringing, not an offensive assertion campaign. Tracked venues are the Northern District of California (San Jose) and the District of Delaware — not the Eastern District of Texas, though parallel TPL suits were filed there in 2008.
Notable cases. Apple Inc. v. HTC Corp. (D. Del., filed 2011) was part of Apple's Android-focused campaign; the parties settled globally in November 2012 with a 10-year mutual patent license. HTC Corp. v. Technology Properties Ltd. and the related TPL v. HTC (N.D. Cal.) pitted HTC against TPL/Alliacense/Patriot Scientific over the "Moore Microprocessor Portfolio." HTC won summary judgment on one patent, but a jury found infringement of the '336 microprocessor-clock patent and awarded TPL about $1 million in October 2013.
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HTC Corp. sued Apple Inc. in the District of Delaware asserting U.S. patents 7,765,414, 7,672,219, and 7,417,944 against Apple products including iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac computers, Apple TV, AirPort, and Time Capsule. The case was resolved as part of the global HTC-Apple settlement announced November 11, 2012 and was closed/dismissed.
ITC investigation initiated by HTC against Apple, amended in September 2011 to add five Google-sourced patents including U.S. 7,020,849. On 2012-05-15, ALJ Thomas B. Pender terminated the investigation as to the '849 patent and four others for lack of standing; the overall investigation ended by the November 2012 HTC–Apple global settlement and was formally terminated in early 2013.
HTC filed a declaratory-judgment action of invalidity/non-infringement as to the '336, '584, '749 and '148 patents. TPL counterclaimed for infringement of the '336, '749, '148 and '890 patents. After trial, the jury found HTC literally infringed claims 6, 7, 9, 13, 14 and 15 of the '336 patent with a $958,560 lump-sum royalty, not willful; JMOL denied and final judgment entered for TPL. Other patents were dismissed or carved out.
Mirror-image declaratory judgment action brought by HTC Corp. against Technology Properties Ltd. It was joined with the related 5:08-cv-00877 case for claim construction involving the '148 and '336 patents.