Plaintiff
1 case as plaintiff.
Company overview. PCT International, Inc. ("PCT") is a privately owned U.S. manufacturer of broadband connectivity hardware, founded in 1997 in Arizona by Steve Youtsey (currently CEO). Its corporate headquarters has been listed in the Phoenix area (Gilbert/Mesa, later Tempe, AZ, with a Jackson, NJ "innovation" office); the company's website indicates a 2025 move of its corporate headquarters to Jackson, NJ. PCT is not publicly traded and no parent company is disclosed. Third-party business databases (Adapt, Craft, PitchBook) estimate roughly 250–1,000 employees and revenue in the $100–250M band, but these are unverified aggregator figures rather than audited numbers. The company states it has been granted or registered ~170 patents since founding.
Products / services. PCT designs and manufactures last-mile and access-network equipment for broadband/telecommunications networks. Product lines include coaxial cable and hybrid fiber-coax connectors, splitters, taps, fiber nodes, RFoG and RF amplifiers, transceivers, power adapters, MoCA/bypass amplifiers, and self-installation kits, sold primarily to cable, telco, and satellite service providers. It reports having manufactured over one million miles of coaxial cable and sold billions of cable connectors. This is a genuine operating company, not a shell licensor.
Patent-litigation posture. The tracked data show PCT as plaintiff in a single case and defendant in none — but this is an operating company asserting its own product patents against a competitor, not an NPE. The single tracked matter is an appeal before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, not a plaintiff-friendly district venue.
Notable case / context. The Federal Circuit case stems from PCT International Inc. v. Holland Electronics, LLC (D. Ariz. No. 2:12-cv-01797), in which PCT sued Holland, an Amphenol subsidiary, over U.S. Patent No. 6,042,422 ("coaxial cable end connector crimped by axial compression"). A 2015 Phoenix jury found 60 Holland connector products infringing and rejected invalidity challenges; the district court awarded damages and a permanent injunction. The Federal Circuit affirmed summarily (Rule 36) on August 16, 2016. PCT confirmed a Chapter 11 reorganization plan and emerged from bankruptcy in November 2021, citing IP-theft costs, COVID-19, and tariff/freight pressures.
Federal Circuit appeal arising from PCT International Inc. v. Holland Electronics, LLC, D. Ariz. No. 2:12-cv-01797, involving U.S. 6,042,422. On 2016-08-16, the Federal Circuit issued a Rule 36 summary affirmance upholding the district court judgment, damages, and permanent injunction.