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Company overview. Kia Motors Manufacturing Georgia, Inc. (KMMG), now commonly branded Kia Georgia, Inc., is an automobile assembly plant at 7777 Kia Parkway, West Point, Georgia (Troup County). Kia announced the plant on March 13, 2006, held groundbreaking that October, and began mass production on November 16, 2009. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Kia Corporation of Seoul, South Korea, part of the Hyundai Motor Group; it is not separately publicly traded, and its standalone revenue is not disclosed. Public sources put employment at roughly 3,200 team members, with the state of Georgia citing more than 3,000 and over 14,000 plant-plus-supplier jobs in the region.
Products / operations. The 2,200-acre site is Kia's first North American manufacturing facility, encompassing stamping, welding, paint and assembly shops plus a transmission shop, module shop and test track. It has capacity for 350,000 vehicles per year and has assembled more than 4.5 million vehicles since 2009. Current products are SUVs: the gasoline Telluride, Sorento and Sportage and the all-electric EV9 (some press accounts also list the EV6). A roughly $217 million expansion added EV production alongside conventional models.
Patent-litigation posture. Per the tracked data, Kia Motors Manufacturing Georgia has appeared as a defendant once and as a plaintiff zero times — the profile of an operating manufacturer defending, not asserting, patents. The single suit was filed in the plaintiff-friendly Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division (Judge Rodney Gilstrap), a venue where the plaintiff ran a broad multi-defendant campaign.
Notable case. Innovative Display Technologies LLC v. Hyundai Motor Group et al., No. 2:14-cv-00201 (E.D. Tex., filed March 10, 2014), consolidated numerous automotive and electronics defendants. Plaintiff Innovative Display Technologies is an Acacia Research Corporation subsidiary — a patent-assertion entity with no operating business — asserting light-emitting panel assembly patents (covering LCD backlights and automotive lighting) that Acacia acquired from Rambus in 2013; Acacia entities were identified as real parties-in-interest in related IPRs. The case generated claim-construction and IPR proceedings and was ultimately resolved through dismissals and settlements.