Defendant
1 case as defendant.
ORBCOMM Inc. (commonly "ORBCOMM") is a privately held industrial Internet-of-Things (IoT) and machine-to-machine (M2M) communications provider headquartered in Rochelle Park, New Jersey, with its network control center in Dulles, Virginia. It was founded in 1993 and previously traded on Nasdaq under ORBC. On September 1, 2021, GI Partners completed an all-cash acquisition valuing ORBCOMM at roughly $1.1 billion including net debt ($11.50/share); the company is now privately held and no longer listed. Public filings and business-data sources place headcount in the roughly 700–850 range, with pre-acquisition annual revenue of about $250–276 million.
Operations. ORBCOMM is an operating company, not a shell licensor. It operates a low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellite constellation plus ground infrastructure and resells terrestrial cellular connectivity, offering satellite and cellular network connectivity, telematics devices, modems, cellular SIMs, device-management and web reporting applications, and Automatic Identification System (AIS) vessel-tracking data. Its solutions serve commercial transportation and supply-chain fleets, heavy equipment, industrial fixed assets, maritime, oil and gas, and government customers, including refrigerated-transport monitoring (ReeferTrak/GenTrak lines).
Litigation posture. The tracked data show ORBCOMM as a defendant in one case and a plaintiff in none — the profile of an operating company targeted by a patent holder rather than a serial plaintiff. The single tracked matter is Fleet Connect Solutions LLC v. C.R. England, Inc. and ORBCOMM, Inc., No. 5:24-cv-00376-KK-SP (C.D. Cal.), filed February 2024, in which ORBCOMM is a co-defendant. ORBCOMM successfully moved to intervene (August 2024) and filed an answer with counterclaims, so it has litigated back. Fleet Connect is a fleet-telematics patent assertion entity asserting patents covering ELD communications, fleet tracking, and trailer telematics (e.g., US 7,058,040; US 7,596,391; US 7,656,845; US 6,429,810; US 7,742,388; US 7,260,153) against multiple carriers and vendors, with related suits in Texas districts. Separately, ORBCOMM filed an ex parte reexamination request against Fleet Connect's patents (Control No. 90/019,766). No merits findings are reflected in the tracked record.
Fleet Connect Solutions LLC asserted the '153 patent against C.R. England and ORBCOMM Inc. in C.D. Cal. The case was completed in December 2024. This is an unmarked portfolio campaign case; the narrative notes that '153 inclusion is likely but not confirmed in its sources.