Company overview. Motors Liquidation Company ("MLC"), formerly General Motors Corporation ("Old GM"), was the liquidation estate left after General Motors' 2009 bankruptcy. GM's Delaware charter dates to 1916; the automaker filed Chapter 11 on June 1, 2009 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York (Case No. 09-50026), sold substantially all assets to NGMCO, Inc. ("New GM") under a §363 sale approved July 5, 2009, and the remnant was renamed Motors Liquidation Company. Its liquidation plan was confirmed March 29, 2011, and MLC filed a Delaware certificate of dissolution on December 15, 2011. Officers and directors were AlixPartners turnaround professionals; the entity's administrative address was c/o AlixPartners, Southfield, Michigan. It has no ticker and no parent. Because it was a dissolved wind-down vehicle, employee-count and revenue metrics are not meaningful; remaining claims and assets passed to the MLC General Unsecured Creditors Trust and the RACER environmental trust.
Products / operations. MLC had no operating business. It held unsold former GM industrial property (reported at roughly 50 million square feet across 127 locations in 14 states), environmental remediation liabilities, asbestos and other legacy claims, and New GM equity and warrants distributed to creditors. Its activity was asset disposition and claim resolution — courts had to handle creditor claims reportedly exceeding $275 billion — and it is therefore neither an operating company nor a patent-assertion entity.
Patent-litigation posture. Zero cases as plaintiff, two as defendant. Both tracked entries are the same dispute: Automotive Technologies International, Inc. v. Delphi Corporation et al., filed March 11, 2008 in the Eastern District of Michigan (Southern Division), consolidated with No. 10-cv-10647 before Judge Robert H. Cleland. MLC was named as successor to General Motors Corporation, not as an aggressor. This is a defensive posture only — no two-way patent litigation and no plaintiff-side filings. Venue was the accused parties' home district, not a plaintiff-friendly forum such as the Eastern District of Texas.
Notable context. Plaintiff Automotive Technologies International is a patent-holding automotive sensor licensor; the consolidated suit accused occupant-detection, seat-weight and position-sensing systems and named Delphi, DPH Holdings, Ford, Volvo, Hyundai, Nissan, Mercedes-Benz and Fuji Heavy alongside GM. The Federal Circuit remanded in March 2012 to allow the district court to vacate part of a summary judgment following settlement. MLC's more consequential litigation was its bankruptcy avoidance action against JPMorgan and term lenders over the 2009 UCC-3 termination, plus a 2010 environmental settlement establishing a trust initially funded with about $773 million.