Defendant
1 case as defendant.
Company overview. Alamo Rent-A-Car LLC is a car-rental operating company and the legal entity behind the Alamo Rent A Car brand. Founded in 1974 in Orlando, Florida, it is headquartered in Clayton, Missouri (St. Louis metro), and has been a subsidiary of privately held Enterprise Holdings, Inc. (now doing business as Enterprise Mobility) since Enterprise acquired parent Vanguard in 2007. Enterprise Holdings is the world's largest car-rental company by revenue and fleet, reporting roughly 90,000 employees and on the order of $35–38 billion in annual revenue in recent years; Alamo's own revenue is not separately disclosed.
Products / services. Alamo is a value-oriented rental brand focused primarily on airport leisure travelers, offering daily car rentals, online/remote check-in, and unlimited-mileage programs. It operates within Enterprise Mobility's integrated network of regional subsidiaries and franchise locations in North America and internationally, alongside sister brands Enterprise Rent-A-Car and National Car Rental. Alamo is a genuine operating business, not a patent-holding shell.
Patent-litigation posture. Alamo is purely a defendant: the tracked docket shows 0 cases as plaintiff and 1 as defendant. That case is an NPE infringement suit filed in the Eastern District of Texas, a venue known for concentrated patent litigation.
Notable case. In Context Directions LLC v. Ean Holdings LLC et al. (E.D. Tex., No. 4:22-cv-00577, filed July 8, 2022, before Judge Amos L. Mazzant), plaintiff Context Directions LLC — a non-practicing plaintiff entity — sued Alamo Rent-A-Car LLC together with EAN Holdings LLC, Ean Holdings Inc., and National Car Rental System LLC. The asserted patents relate to sensor-based context detection in mobile devices (e.g., detecting device/vehicle context via sensor groups and classifiers). Context Directions filed a parallel suit against Avis Budget Group the same day, and the Alamo-related case included a motion to change venue before being stayed. Docket records show Alamo (spelled "Alamo Rent-A-Center, LLC" in the summons) defending through Enterprise-affiliated counsel.