Defendant
1 case as defendant.
Company overview. FCA US LLC — commonly "FCA," and previously Chrysler Group LLC until a December 2014 rename — is a North American automaker headquartered at 1000 Chrysler Drive, Auburn Hills, Michigan. It traces its roots to Chrysler Corporation (founded 1925) but is not itself publicly traded: it is a wholly owned subsidiary of Stellantis N.V. (NYSE/Euronext Paris: STLA), the group formed by the January 2021 merger of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and PSA Groupe. Stellantis press materials cite roughly 38,000 UAW-represented U.S. employees eligible for 2023 profit sharing; Stellantis reports around 258,000 employees globally. Precise standalone headcount/revenue for the FCA US entity is not publicly broken out.
Products / operations. An operating company, not a shell. It designs, manufactures, and sells or distributes vehicles under the Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Ram, FIAT and Alfa Romeo brands, plus the SRT performance designation, and distributes Mopar parts and accessories. Its North America lineup is weighted toward utility vehicles, pickups, cars and minivans, including plug-in hybrids (Jeep Wrangler 4xe, Grand Cherokee 4xe, Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid). U.S. assembly operations include the Toledo Assembly Complex.
Patent-litigation posture. FCA US appears in the database as a defendant only (0 plaintiff, 1 defendant) — a purely defensive posture typical of an operating company attacked by a patent holder, not an NPE asserting a portfolio. Its one tracked suit did not originate in a plaintiff-friendly venue; it was filed in the Northern District of Ohio (July 15, 2022) and transferred by the JPML into a consolidated MDL in the Eastern District of Michigan.
Notable case. Neo Wireless, LLC v. FCA US, LLC (originally N.D. Ohio 3:22-cv-01252; now E.D. Mich. 2:22-cv-11770-TGB, Judge Terrence G. Berg) is part of In re Neo Wireless, LLC Patent Litigation, MDL No. 3034, the 2:22-md-03034 consolidated proceeding. Neo Wireless — described by Unified Patents as an NPE and Fortress Investment Group entity — asserted 4G/LTE/5G cellular standard patents against FCA US and other automakers (Ford, GM, Honda, Nissan, Tesla, Toyota, Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz). Patents asserted against FCA include U.S. 8,467,366, 10,075,941, 10,447,450, 10,771,302, 10,833,908 and 10,965,512, covering OFDMA/multi-carrier wireless signaling; FCA US is represented by Venable LLP.
Neo Wireless sued FCA US, LLC (Stellantis) in N.D. Ohio (3:22-cv-01252); the case was transferred into MDL 3034 as 2:22-cv-11770-TGB. No final judgment was found, and it remained an MDL member case.