IMETRIK, Inc.

IMETRIK Global Inc. is a privately held Canadian company founded in 2005 and headquartered in Montreal, Quebec. The company operates as a provider of telematics and Machine-to-Machine (M2M) solutions. Sources offer varying employee counts, ranging from 11-20 to approximately 134.

IMETRIK specializes in the automotive industry, providing end-to-end GPS tracking solutions that allow vehicles to communicate with computer systems. Its offerings include hardware design, a managed mobile network, and a cloud-based data platform with web services. The company's products are primarily aimed at automotive lenders, particularly in the subprime and "buy-here, pay-here" segments, to help with payment collection and vehicle repossession. Product features include real-time vehicle location, geo-fencing, payment reminders, and remote starter interruption capabilities.

As an operating company, IMETRIK's patent litigation profile consists of defending against patent assertions. The company has been a defendant in one tracked case and has not been a plaintiff. This aligns with a typical operating company's posture of being targeted by patent assertion entities. The single case was filed in the Eastern District of Texas, a venue historically favored by patent plaintiffs.

The lawsuit was initiated in 2017 by Orthosie Systems, LLC. Orthosie Systems has been identified in public reports as a Texas-based non-practicing entity (NPE) that has also filed patent infringement lawsuits against other companies in the vehicle telematics industry, such as Geotab and Zonar Systems, over patents related to vehicle monitoring.