Defendant
2 cases as defendant.
Company overview. BJ's Wholesale Club Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: BJ) is the holding company for BJ's Wholesale Club, a membership-based warehouse club chain. It is headquartered at 350 Campus Drive, Marlborough, Massachusetts; the underlying business was founded in 1984 and the holding company (formerly Beacon Holding Inc.) was renamed and taken public in an IPO in June 2018. It is a large-cap public company: roughly 33,000–35,000 employees, trailing-twelve-month revenue around $21–22 billion (FY2025 revenue ~$20.5B; FY2026 ~$21.5B), and a market capitalization of roughly $10.5–12.3 billion, per PitchBook, StockAnalysis, and Barron's.
Operations. BJ's operates approximately 260 membership warehouse clubs concentrated in the eastern half of the United States across about 21 states. Sales skew heavily to grocery, perishables, and consumables (~72% of sales), with general merchandise (~11%) and gasoline (~17%), supported by recurring membership fees and private-label brands including Wellsley Farms and Berkley Jensen. It also operates the BJ's Mobile App, which includes the Express Pay scan-and-go checkout feature, along with curbside pickup, same-day delivery, and fuel stations.
Patent-litigation posture. BJ's is an operating company, not a patent assertion entity. All three tracked matters stem from a single competitor dispute: Sam's West, Inc. and Walmart Apollo, LLC (both Walmart Inc. entities) sued BJ's in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Orlando Division (6:22-cv-00587, filed March 22, 2022), alleging that BJ's Mobile App and Express Pay infringe four Walmart patents covering mobile self-checkout and location-based retail services. BJ's two "defendant" appearances cover that district suit and Walmart Apollo's Federal Circuit appeal; its single "plaintiff" appearance is a PTAB inter partes review petition (IPR2022-01528, et al., filed September 22, 2022) — a defensive validity challenge to the same patents.
Notable context. BJ's filed multiple IPR petitions challenging the asserted Walmart Apollo patents; the PTAB found all challenged claims of U.S. Patent No. 10,803,435 unpatentable, and the Federal Circuit affirmed in Walmart Apollo, LLC v. BJ's Wholesale Club Holdings, Inc. (No. 24-1952, et al.) in April 2026. The district case was stayed during the IPR proceedings. The dispute centers on scan-and-go mobile checkout technology comparable to Sam's Club's "Scan & Go."
Walmart appealed the PTAB's final written decisions in IPR2022-01528, IPR2022-01563, and IPR2022-01564; these appeals were consolidated with 24-1952 as lead (also involving 24-1953 and 24-1954). The Federal Circuit affirmed in a nonprecedential Rule 36 judgment entered April 13, 2026.
Walmart/Sam's West sued BJ's alleging infringement of the '435 patent and related patents based on BJ's Express Pay mobile app functionality. The case was stayed pending IPR; after the Federal Circuit affirmed the PTAB decisions, plaintiffs agreed to withdraw the '435 patent counts and continue with the remaining asserted patents.