LoJack Corporation

LoJack Corporation is a well-known provider of stolen vehicle recovery systems, founded with a patented radio-frequency tracking technology in the 1980s. The company was headquartered in Massachusetts and was publicly traded before being acquired by CalAmp, an IoT and telematics company, for $134 million in March 2016. In a subsequent major transaction, the vehicle intelligence company Spireon acquired the LoJack U.S. Stolen Vehicle Recovery business from CalAmp in March 2021. CalAmp retained the LoJack International business and ownership of the brand's patents and trademarks.

The company's core offering is its vehicle tracking and recovery system. Historically, LoJack's flagship product was a small, hidden radio-frequency transceiver that could be activated by law enforcement upon a theft report, allowing police to track and locate the vehicle. More recent versions of the technology incorporate GPS and cellular systems, expanding the service to include connected-car features for consumers and dealers. These features provide data such as trip history, battery levels, and speed alerts, in addition to vehicle location for inventory management at dealerships and recovery of stolen assets.

Based on its legal history in the provided database, LoJack is an operating company that has defended against patent litigation. It has been a defendant in one tracked case and has not appeared as a plaintiff. This posture is typical of a technology company being targeted by a patent assertion entity. The single case was filed in the Colorado District Court, not a jurisdiction commonly associated with high-volume patent assertion campaigns.

The notable case in the database is Orthosie Systems, LLC v. LoJack Corporation, filed in 2018. At the time of this lawsuit, LoJack Corporation was a subsidiary of CalAmp, which had acquired the company two years prior. The case was filed before Spireon's 2021 acquisition of the U.S. LoJack business unit.