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. Founded in 1953 by John J. Keller as a one-man consulting firm for motor carriers, it remains owned by the Keller family and has no public ticker or parent company. The company states it has more than 2,000 associates across the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and an India center of excellence, and serves 500,000+ companies in North America. No audited public financials exist; a 2023 company press release described revenue growth "from $100 million to nearly $400 million" over roughly two decades.
Its business is safety and regulatory compliance, not manufacturing. Product and service lines span DOT/transportation compliance (fleet management, electronic logging devices, driver qualification, licensing/permitting and fuel-tax services), OSHA workplace safety, human resources, construction safety, and hazmat/environmental compliance. Offerings include technical publications and regulatory forms, online training and e-learning, consulting, outsourced compliance services (e.g., drug and alcohol program management, carrier risk review), and cloud-based software such as the Encompass fleet management system and J.J. Keller Mobile.
Litigation posture: operating company on defense. The tracked data shows zero plaintiff cases and one defendant case — the signature of a real operating company being targeted, not an NPE.
That single tracked matter is Fleet Connect Solutions LLC v. J.J. Keller & Associates, Inc., No. 1:25-cv-00853 (E.D. Wis., filed June 13, 2025), with a jury demand and willfulness allegations. Notably, venue is J.J. Keller's home district rather than a plaintiff-friendly forum such as the Eastern District of Texas, though Fleet Connect has also filed in EDTX and the Western District of Texas. Fleet Connect is characterized in related court filings as a non-practicing entity owned and controlled by Empire IP LLC; Unified Patents describes it as an NPE that has asserted acquired wireless-communications/OFDM and logistics-tracking patents in 60+ cases, frequently against downstream users of fleet-telematics products. Thirteen patents are at issue here, targeting J.J. Keller's ELD and fleet-management offerings. J.J. Keller answered on October 22, 2025.
Fleet Connect Solutions LLC asserted the '153 patent against JJ Keller & Associates, Inc. in E.D. Wis. This is an unmarked portfolio campaign case; the narrative notes that '153 inclusion is likely but not confirmed in its sources. The case is open.