Launched in 2004, iLo technologies is a Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. , branded as Walmart since 2008 and Wal-Mart before then, is an American public multinational corporation that runs chains of large discount department stores and warehouse stores. The company is the world's 18th largest public corporation, according to the Forbes Global 2000...

 consumer electronics house brand. Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. , branded as Walmart since 2008 and Wal-Mart before then, is an American public multinational corporation that runs chains of large discount department stores and warehouse stores. The company is the world's 18th largest public corporation, according to the Forbes Global 2000...

 sells many low cost, entry-level consumer electronics

Consumer electronics

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 products under the iLo name in stores and on Walmart.com. As with many house brands, no single company manufactures all iLo products.

CyberHome USA, an electronics manufacturer of iLo products, currently has their intellectual property

Intellectual property

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, trademark

Trademark

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s and domain name

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s for sale, including www.iloservice.com, after their California

California

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 warehouse was raided by law enforcement in June 2006. A task force of local, state and federal agencies—led by the FBI—seized over 20,000 CyberHome-branded DVD player

DVD player

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s which Philips

Philips

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 claimed used their patent

Patent

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s without a license. The estimated retail value of the seized players is more than US$2 million.

Not to be confused with "ILO Electronics", a German

Germany

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 manufacturer of medical and industrial electronics or 'ilo' an art and design studio based in San Francisco.