Avis Rent A Car System LLC

Company overview. Avis Rent A Car System LLC, commonly known as Avis Rent a Car (or Avis Car Rental), is a wholly owned subsidiary of Avis Budget Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: CAR), headquartered at 6 Sylvan Way, Parsippany, New Jersey. The Avis brand dates to 1946, when Warren E. Avis founded it. Its parent, Avis Budget Group, reported roughly $11.65 billion in revenue for fiscal 2025 and about 25,000 employees (17,000 full-time), with a market capitalization in the ~$5–6 billion range as of mid-2026, per company filings and stock-data aggregators.

Products / services / operations. Avis Rent A Car System LLC operates the Avis vehicle-rental brand — airport and neighborhood rental locations serving business and leisure customers — as one of several mobility brands under Avis Budget Group, alongside Budget Rent a Car, Budget Truck Rental, and Zipcar. It is an operating company with real products and services, not a patent-holding shell.

Patent-litigation posture. Avis appears in the tracked data exclusively as a defendant: 0 plaintiff cases, 1 defendant case, filed in the Eastern District of Texas — a venue frequently selected by patent plaintiffs. This is consistent with an operating company defending against an assertion campaign rather than initiating litigation.

Notable cases / context. The sole tracked matter is Context Directions LLC v. Avis Budget Group, Inc. et al. (No. 4:22-cv-00575, E.D. Tex., filed July 8, 2022, before Judge Amos L. Mazzant III). Avis Rent A Car System LLC was named as a defendant alongside parent Avis Budget Group and sister company Budget Rent a Car System, Inc., and the group answered with a counterclaim. Per Unified Patents, plaintiff Context Directions LLC is an entity associated with Jeffrey M. Gross, asserting patents (including U.S. Patent 9,807,564) covering detection of whether a mobile device is inside a moving vehicle — technology relevant to car-rental mobile apps. Unified Patents has characterized the portfolio as NPE-owned and has run prior-art challenges against it; Context Directions has asserted the same patents against other rental-car operators, including Enterprise and Fox Rent-A-Car.