Defendant

Brigade Electronics

2 cases as defendant.

Cases
2
Active
2
0 closed
Filed
2025
Top venue
E D Tex Judge Rodney Gilstrap
1 case

Company profile

Brigade Electronics Group Plc — commonly "Brigade Electronics" — is a UK-based vehicle-safety technology group headquartered at Brigade House, The Mills, Station Road, South Darenth, Kent. It was founded in 1976 by Chris Hanson-Abbott (who died in June 2026, aged 92) and remains family-controlled: Brigade Holdings Limited is the parent, with Christopher Hanson-Abbott and Philip Hanson-Abbott listed as persons with significant control. Despite the "Plc" name, the company is not exchange-listed; it is privately held. UK Companies House classifies it as a "large" company, and group accounts for the year ended 31 January 2025 report turnover of roughly £52 million and about 286 employees. It operates subsidiaries including Brigade Electronics (UK) Ltd and Brigade Electronics, Inc. in the United States.

Products / operations. Brigade designs and manufactures commercial-vehicle and mobile-plant safety systems. Its range includes camera-monitor systems, reversing alarms (it introduced the first reversing alarm to Europe in 1976), ultrasonic proximity sensors, radar detection, driver-safety cameras, digital video recorders, telematics and thermal camera products, marketed under names such as Backeye360 and Backsense and sold through distributors and subsidiaries worldwide.

Patent-litigation posture. The tracked data shows zero plaintiff cases and two defendant cases, so Brigade appears purely as a defending operating company rather than an asserter. Both tracked matters are captioned Peregrine Data LLC v. Brigade Electronics, filed 7 May 2025 in the Eastern District of Texas before Judge Rodney Gilstrap — a plaintiff-favored venue cluster for this docket.

Notable context. Peregrine Data LLC is characterized by Unified Patents as an NPE and an entity of Eric Zautner; its asserted patent, U.S. 8,319,619 ("efficiency of legal proceedings relating to vehicular incidents and automobile security"), has also been asserted against Solera Holdings, Lytx and Netradyne. Brigade's involvement fits a pattern of vehicle-safety and fleet-tech vendors being targeted on that single acquired patent. No merits findings are reflected in the tracked data.