Defendant

Ewing Buick-Plano, L.P.

1 case as defendant.

Cases
1
Active
0
1 closed
Filed
2025
Top venue
E D Tex
1 case

Company profile

Company overview. Ewing Buick-Plano, L.P. is a private, family-owned automobile dealership that does business as Ewing Buick GMC. It is a Texas domestic limited partnership registered on December 30, 2005, operating at 6425 Dallas Parkway in Plano, Texas. It is part of the Ewing Automotive Group, owned and operated by President Fin Ewing III, whose family's dealership history traces to 1940 (Orand Buick in Dallas). Third-party directories (Craft.co, Prospeo) list the Ewing group at roughly 51–100 employees; no reliable public revenue figure is available. The dealership is not publicly traded.

Products / services / operations. Ewing Buick GMC sells new Buick and GMC vehicles and pre-owned vehicles of multiple makes, along with factory parts, service, and collision/body-shop work. It is one of several Ewing Automotive Group stores in Plano (alongside Mercedes-Benz of Plano, Ewing Subaru of Plano, and Ewing VinFast of Plano). In short, it is a conventional franchised auto retailer and service center — an operating company with no technology products of its own.

Patent-litigation posture. Ewing Buick-Plano is a defendant-only participant: 1 tracked case, 0 as plaintiff. The sole tracked suit, Context Directions LLC v. Ewing Buick-Plano, L.P. (2:25-cv-00953), was filed September 16, 2025, in the Eastern District of Texas (assigned to Chief Judge Rodney Gilstrap). The company is an operating company defending against a patent-assertion suit — a pattern consistent with Context Directions' campaign against Texas car dealers.

Notable case context. The plaintiff, Context Directions LLC, is a non-practicing entity controlled by Jeffrey M. Gross (per Unified Patents and the Stanford NPE Litigation Database), asserting acquired patents — U.S. Patent Nos. 9,807,564 and 10,142,791 — covering mobile-device context detection and hierarchical sensor classification. The suits target vehicle telematics/infotainment systems in vehicles sold by dealerships. Context Directions has filed near-identical actions against other Texas dealers (e.g., Peters Chevrolet, Wagner Cadillac, Patterson Motors, Huffines, Gulliver USA), typically in E.D. Tex., a venue favored by NPE plaintiffs.