Defendant
1 case as defendant.
Grady Rentals LLC is a privately held oilfield equipment rental company headquartered at 2745 S. Highway 171, Cleburne, Texas (Johnson County). Third-party business directories list its founding as 2007 and name Brad Grady as principal/owner. It is a private company; no public ticker or parent ownership is disclosed in the sources reviewed. Size estimates vary across commercial databases and are unverified: D&B reports ~44 employees and ~$20M annual revenue, while Manta and Kona Equity estimate 167–250 employees and $28–39M revenue. The most defensible statement is a small-to-midsize private operator, roughly 50–250 employees, within the $10–50M revenue band.
Operations. Grady Rentals rents and services equipment to oil and gas operators, describing itself as a one-stop shop for the industry, handling delivery, setup, and equipment operation. Its rental fleet includes generators, light towers, tank/frac heaters, trash and safety-shower trailers, pad sites, skid steers, loaders, and sweepers. It advertises service across multiple basins and states, including Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wyoming, and Colorado. It is a real operating company with physical yards and equipment — not a patent holder or licensing entity.
Litigation posture. Grady Rentals appears in the database only as a defendant — two tracked entries (both dated 2025-08-06, W.D. Tex.) and zero as plaintiff — which is the classic signature of an operating company targeted by an outside patent owner rather than an active enforcer. No patents are attributed to Grady Rentals.
Notable cases. Both tracked matters are Fleet Connect Solutions LLC v. Grady Rentals LLC in the Western District of Texas. Fleet Connect Solutions is a well-documented non-practicing entity associated with Empire IP LLC; Unified Patents and Stanford's NPE Litigation Database classify it as a PAE asserting acquired wireless/telematics patents (e.g., U.S. 7,742,388, 7,260,153, 6,429,810) against downstream fleet and telematics users. Grady Rentals' case is one of dozens in that campaign, which reflects the technology asserted (fleet/vehicle communication systems) rather than any Grady-developed technology.
Sources: D&B, Manta, Kona Equity, Bloomberg company profile, Unified Patents, Stanford NPE Litigation Database.
Fleet Connect Solutions LLC sued Grady Rentals LLC for infringement involving U.S. Patent No. 7,741,968. Exhibit I is an evidence-of-use chart for the '968 patent, and an answer was filed 2025-10-06.