Defendant
1 case as defendant.
Cedar Electronics Holdings Corp. (also styled Cedar Electronics Holdings Corporation; d/b/a Cedar Electronics, Inc. and Cedar Electronics Corporation) is a privately held consumer-electronics company formed on June 29, 2015, when private-equity firm Monomoy Capital Partners merged its portfolio companies Escort Inc. and Cobra Electronics Corp. The company is headquartered at 1701 Golf Road, Tower 3, Rolling Meadows, Illinois, with operations in West Chester, Ohio, and Chattanooga, Tennessee. It remains under Monomoy control and is not publicly traded. Press coverage at formation cited roughly 350 employees worldwide; third-party business-data trackers currently list a substantially smaller headcount (about 105) and one directory estimates annual revenue near $70 million. Those current figures are unverified and should be treated as estimates.
The company designs, sources, and distributes branded automotive, communications, and driver-awareness products. Its main lines are radar and laser detectors (Escort REDLINE and MAX series), smart dash cams (Cobra SC series), GMRS/FRS two-way radios, CB and marine radios, mobile power solutions, and related accessories, sold under the Escort, Cobra, Passport, Beltronics, and Snooper brands through big-box retailers, truck stops, e-commerce, and its own sites.
Litigation posture: Cedar is an operating company defending, not asserting. The database shows one tracked case, with zero plaintiff appearances and one defendant appearance — Fleet Connect Solutions LLC v. Cedar Electronics Holdings Corp., No. 1:25-cv-00004 (E.D. Tenn., filed Jan. 3, 2025). Plaintiff Fleet Connect is a non-practicing entity affiliated with Empire IP; its U.S. Patent 7,742,388 has been asserted in dozens of suits, and Unified Patents challenged it in an ex parte reexamination (claims cancelled by the Central Reexamination Unit in March 2026, per Unified).
Fleet Connect asserted seven vehicle-connectivity/WLAN patents (including 7,058,040; 6,633,616; 8,005,053; 6,549,583; 7,656,845; 7,260,153) against Escort/Cobra radar detectors, dash cams, and the Drive Smarter app. The case was resolved by a stipulated dismissal with prejudice under Rule 41(a)(1)(A)(ii), each party bearing its own fees. Notably, the suit was filed in the Eastern District of Tennessee rather than the Eastern District of Texas.
Fleet Connect Solutions LLC asserted the '153 patent against Cedar Electronics Holdings Corp. in E.D. Tenn. The case was dismissed with prejudice under Rule 41(a)(1)(A)(ii).