Plaintiff

Toshiba Corporation

2 cases as plaintiff.

Cases
2
Active
0
2 closed
Filed
2017
Top venue
PTAB
1 case
Also appears as a defendant in 4 cases → View as defendant

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Toshiba Corporation (Toshiba) — Company Profile

Overview. Toshiba Corporation is a Japanese diversified electronics and infrastructure group headquartered in Minato-ku, Tokyo (with plans to relocate its head office to Kawasaki). It traces its roots to 1875 and was renamed Toshiba in 1978 as the successor to the Shibaura Engineering Works / Tokyo Electric Company merger. It was listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (ticker 6502) for 74 years until December 2023, when a consortium led by private equity firm Japan Industrial Partners (with Orix, Chubu Electric Power and Rohm) completed a roughly ¥2 trillion buyout and took the company private. Toshiba reports approximately 106,000 employees and FY2023 net sales of about ¥3.2 trillion.

Products / operations. Toshiba is an operating company, not a licensing vehicle. Its segments include Energy Systems & Solutions (thermal, nuclear and hydro power generation equipment), Infrastructure Systems & Solutions (water treatment, transport, broadcasting, battery systems such as SCiB), Building Solutions (elevators, lighting, HVAC), Retail & Printing Solutions (POS systems and multifunction printers, largely via publicly listed Toshiba Tec), Electronic Devices & Storage Solutions (power devices, small-signal and optical semiconductors, analog/mixed-signal ICs, HDDs), and Digital Solutions (IT services). It has divested several former units, including its NAND flash memory business (reorganized as Kioxia), medical, TV and laptop operations.

Litigation posture. Toshiba appears in the database only as a defendant (1 case, 0 as plaintiff), consistent with a large operating company targeted by patent assertion entities rather than an active plaintiff. The sole tracked suit was filed in the District of Delaware, not the Eastern District of Texas.

Notable case. Collabo Innovations, Inc. v. Toshiba Corporation et al., No. 1:15-cv-00608 (D. Del., filed July 16, 2015), named Toshiba plus Toshiba America Inc. and Toshiba America Electronic Components Inc. Collabo Innovations is a subsidiary of Wi-LAN/Quarterhill, a patent-licensing entity; the asserted portfolio covered image-sensing technology and was acquired from Panasonic in 2013. WiLAN announced on December 30, 2015 that Collabo had entered a patent license agreement with Toshiba, resolving the Delaware litigation on confidential terms.

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Toshiba Corporation et al. v. Macronix International Co., Ltd.

terminated
Docket:
IPR2017-01864
Filed:
2017-07-26
Terminated:
2018-10-17
Patents:6788602

Toshiba and related entities petitioned for inter partes review of claims 1–12 and 16 of U.S. Patent 6,788,602 on anticipation and obviousness grounds. The Board instituted in part, modified institution after SAS, and terminated the proceeding on October 17, 2018 after settlement without a final written decision.

Toshiba Corporation et al. v. Macronix International Co., Ltd.

settled
Docket:
IPR2017-01632
Filed:
2017-06-19
Terminated:
2018-10-17
Patents:8035417

Toshiba entities filed an inter partes review against Macronix challenging claims 1–7, 11–16, and 18 of the '417 patent. The PTAB instituted the review and terminated it on October 17, 2018, after the parties settled.