Defendant
1 case as defendant.
PACCAR Inc (Nasdaq: PCAR) is a publicly traded manufacturer of commercial vehicles headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. Its predecessor, Pacific Car and Foundry, traces its origins to 1905 in Seattle; the PACCAR name and holding-company structure were adopted in 1971–72. The company is a Fortune 500 firm. Reported headcount is roughly 25,900–32,400 depending on year and source, and consolidated revenue was $33.66 billion for 2024 (PACCAR Q4 2024 earnings release).
Operations. PACCAR designs, manufactures, and supports light-, medium-, and heavy-duty trucks sold under three nameplates: Kenworth, Peterbilt, and DAF (acquired 1996; DAF and Leyland Trucks serve Europe). It also builds diesel engines, distributes aftermarket truck parts through PACCAR Parts, and provides truck financing and leasing through PACCAR Financial and PacLease. Reporting segments are Truck, Parts, and Financial Services; 2024 truck sales were about 185,300 units.
Litigation posture. The tracked data show 1 case, as defendant only (0 as plaintiff), consistent with an operating company being sued rather than an active two-way litigant or patent asserter. The single suit, Fleet Connect Solutions LLC v. PACCAR, Inc. d/b/a Peterbilt Motor Co. (2:25-cv-00658, E.D. Tex., filed June 2025), was brought in the plaintiff-friendly Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division.
Context. The plaintiff, Fleet Connect Solutions LLC, is characterized as a non-practicing entity asserting acquired patents in the Stanford NPE Litigation Database and Unified Patents' NPE/PAE portal. Fleet Connect's campaign spans fleet telematics, GPS/asset tracking, and wireless networking technology, with suits against telematics and transportation defendants including Motive, Geotab, PowerFleet, Knight-Swift, Ryder, and Werner, alongside consumer-electronics makers such as Lenovo, Bose, and Nikon. PACCAR's appearance in that campaign aligns with the connectivity and telematics features of its commercial trucks; no merits determination is reflected in the tracked data.
Fleet Connect Solutions LLC asserted the '153 patent against PACCAR, Inc. d/b/a Peterbilt Motor Co. in E.D. Tex. This is an unmarked portfolio campaign case; the narrative notes that '153 inclusion is likely but not confirmed in its sources. The case is open.