NEC Corporation

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NEC Corporation (日本電気株式会社) is a Japanese multinational information and communications technology company headquartered at 7-1, Shiba 5-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo. Founded in 1899 and renamed NEC Corporation in 1983, it is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (ticker 6701) with no parent company. Per NEC's own corporate profile, the group reported consolidated revenue of ¥3.5827 trillion in FY2025 (ended March 31, 2026) and employed roughly 101,800 people on a consolidated basis.

NEC operates as a diversified ICT vendor and systems integrator rather than a pure NPE. Its main lines are IT services (system integration, consulting, cloud, outsourcing) for government, finance, healthcare and manufacturing; social infrastructure, including biometric authentication (face, iris, fingerprint), public-safety and video-surveillance systems, defense/aerospace and submarine optical cable systems; and network services, including 4G/5G core networks, base stations, Open RAN, optical transmission and Netcracker OSS/BSS software. NEC also markets AI platforms such as cotomi generative AI.

Litigation posture: NEC is predominantly an operating company on the defensive — 8 tracked cases as defendant versus 3 as plaintiff. The defense side is a mix of NPE suits and declaratory-judgment actions clustering in the Eastern District of Texas and the Eastern District of Virginia, venues favored by patent plaintiffs. Its own assertions are limited and framed as a practicing entity enforcing internally developed video/image-processing patents; the Stanford NPE Litigation Database categorizes NEC's suits as those of a "Product company."

Notable cases: In September 2024 NEC sued Anker Innovations and YI Technologies in E.D. Tex. over surveillance/imaging patents (e.g., U.S. 10,037,467; 11,210,526; 11,537,814). Anker-affiliated entities Power Mobile Life, LLC and Fantasia Trading, LLC responded in October 2024 with a declaratory-judgment non-infringement action in E.D. Va. (Judge Brinkema), transferred to E.D. Tex. (Judge Gilstrap). ReadyComm LLC, described by RPX and Stanford's database as a non-practicing entity, sued NEC in March 2025 over U.S. 9,179,011 (telephone communication systems) and voluntarily dismissed without prejudice in May 2025. NEC was also a defendant in Fiber, LLC v. NEC in the District of Colorado (2012).