Defendant
1 case as defendant.
J. J. Keller & Associates, Inc. (commonly "J. J. Keller") is a privately held, family-owned company headquartered at 3003 Breezewood Lane, Neenah, Wisconsin. It was founded in 1953 by John Keller; Rustin Keller is president and CEO. The company reports 2,000+ associates across the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and a Center of Excellence in India. It does not trade publicly and discloses no ticker. Third-party employment sites list it in the 1,001–5,000 employee band and estimate revenue of $100M–$500M; those revenue figures are unverified estimates, not company disclosures.
J. J. Keller provides safety and regulatory compliance products and services to transportation, construction, utility, healthcare, education, and industrial organizations. Its product lines include the Encompass® cloud-based fleet safety and compliance platform; electronic logging device (ELD) hardware such as the VT100 vehicle telematics device and compliance tablets; eDVIR/eLogs software; dash cams; driver and employee training (online courses, streaming video, print); managed and consulting services; and regulatory publications, forms, PPE, and safety supplies. The company states it serves 500,000+ companies across North America.
On patent litigation, J. J. Keller is an operating company defending against an NPE suit, consistent with its tracked record of zero plaintiff cases and one defendant case. In Fleet Connect Solutions LLC v. J. J. Keller & Associates, Inc. (No. 1:25-cv-00853, E.D. Wis., filed June 13, 2025), Fleet Connect asserts infringement of 13 patents (including U.S. Nos. 7,058,040; 7,742,388; 7,656,845; 7,260,153; 6,633,616; 6,549,583; 7,206,837; 7,593,751; 6,961,586; 8,494,581; 6,647,270; 7,092,723; and 7,741,968), with willfulness alleged. J. J. Keller answered on October 22, 2025, and a scheduling conference was held November 25, 2025.
Fleet Connect is characterized as a non-practicing entity in third-party databases (Stanford NPE Litigation Database) and in a related declaratory-judgment complaint, which alleges Fleet Connect is "owned and controlled by Empire IP LLC" and has filed 50+ infringement suits across at least ten districts, often targeting downstream fleet-telematics customers. Unlike much of that campaign, the J. J. Keller case sits in the defendant's home district rather than the Eastern District of Texas. No merits rulings have been reported.