Plaintiff
4 cases as plaintiff.
Huawei Device Co., Ltd. ("Huawei Device") is a Chinese consumer-terminal manufacturer and a wholly owned subsidiary of Huawei Device (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., which is jointly held by Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd., Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. and Huawei Tech. Investment Co., Limited (per Huawei's own corporate disclosure in VoIP-Pal.com v. Huawei, W.D. Tex.). Registry data lists it as founded 23 November 2012, headquartered in Dongguan/Guangdong, and registered at Huawei's Bantian, Longgang District campus. It is private — Huawei is employee-owned with no public listing. Headcount and revenue are not disclosed separately for this entity; parent Huawei Technologies reported roughly 208,000 employees and CNY 862.1 billion (~US$118bn) revenue for 2024.
Products / operations. Huawei Device handles design, manufacture, procurement, supply chain, sales and service for Huawei's consumer lines: smartphones (Mate, Pura/P and nova series), tablets (MatePad), PCs (MateBook), wearables and audio, mobile broadband, and smart-home/smart-lock and accessory products, plus installation, repair and customer support. It is the operating contracting entity for Huawei's consumer business rather than a licensing vehicle.
Litigation posture. The tracked record contains exactly one case, as plaintiff (1 plaintiff / 0 defendant), at the PTAB — consistent with an operating company bringing defensive validity challenges, not a patent monetization entity.
Notable case. Huawei Device Co., Ltd. v. Fundamental Innovation Systems International LLC (PTAB, filed 11–12 January 2018, e.g. IPR2018-00465, -00485, -00487 et al.). Huawei petitioned against FISI patents on USB charging and power supply for mobile devices (US 7,834,586; 7,239,111; 7,893,655), challenging claims over prior art. FISI is a licensing entity holding patents originating from Research In Motion/BlackBerry, which it asserted against Huawei, LG and ZTE in the Eastern District of Texas; Huawei's IPRs ran parallel to that litigation. Institution was denied in at least some petitions (e.g. IPR2018-00487). The underlying district-court suit is not part of our tracked PTAB-only data set.
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Huawei Device Co., Ltd. et al. petitioned for inter partes review of the '586 patent. The Board denied institution on 2018-09-04.
Huawei petitioned for IPR of the '655 patent. The proceeding was instituted on Aug. 8, 2018, and terminated (settled) on Sept. 27, 2018. ZTE filed an opposed motion to join its IPR2018-01076 into this proceeding.
Huawei petitioned for inter partes review of U.S. Patent 7,203,517. The proceeding was terminated by settlement.
Huawei Device Co., Ltd. and Huawei Technologies Co. filed an inter partes review against U.S. 6,928,292. The proceeding was terminated by settlement before a final written decision.