Midland Nissan LLLP

Company overview. Midland Nissan LLLP is a private Texas limited partnership formed on November 8, 2006, whose general partner is ETB Management, LLC. It does business as Nissan of Midland, a Nissan new-car dealership at 4800 W Loop 250 N in Midland, Texas, serving the Midland–Odessa–Big Spring region of West Texas. It is not publicly traded. Public directory sources indicate a small operation — roughly 11–50 employees (Kona Equity estimates ~20 employees and ~$5.4M in annual revenue, but those figures are third-party estimates, not company-reported).

Products / services / operations. Midland Nissan LLLP is a franchised automotive retailer. Its operations are new- and used-vehicle sales, factory-authorized parts, and service/maintenance for Nissan models (Rogue, Sentra, Murano, Pathfinder, and others), with sales, service, and parts departments at the Midland location. It is an operating company with a physical dealership and ongoing commercial operations — not a patent-holding shell.

Patent-litigation posture. The company is a pure defendant in the one tracked case: Context Directions LLC v. Midland Nissan LLLP, filed in the Western District of Texas. Midland Nissan has zero plaintiff cases, consistent with a typical operating company defending against patent infringement allegations rather than asserting patents itself. The W.D. Tex. filing follows the pattern of plaintiff-friendly Texas patent venues.

Notable cases / context. The sole tracked suit was brought by Context Directions LLC, a patent assertion entity that Unified Patents identifies as a Jeffrey M. Gross entity. Context Directions has filed numerous similar actions against auto dealers and rental companies, asserting U.S. Patents 9,807,564 and 10,142,791, which relate to mobile-device context detection (e.g., detecting that a mobile device is in a moving vehicle) and contextual location/navigation technology. Its suits against dealerships (e.g., Gulliver USA, Patterson Motors entities) have generally targeted vehicle models' connectivity and navigation features, and have typically ended in quick negotiated dismissals. No merits determinations in the Midland Nissan matter are reflected in the tracked record.