Patterson Motors of Kilgore, Inc.

Company overview. Patterson Motors of Kilgore, Inc. (operating as Patterson Chevrolet / Patterson Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram) is a privately held auto dealership at 1611 US Highway 259 N in Kilgore, Texas. Founded in 2004 and run by William R. Patterson III, it is one of several Patterson-branded dealerships the family operates across East Texas (Kilgore, Longview, Marshall, and Tyler). Dun & Bradstreet lists roughly 43 employees and annual revenue of about $15 million; these are third-party estimates, not company disclosures.

Products / services / operations. The company is a franchised new- and used-vehicle retailer serving the Tyler and Longview, Texas area. It sells Chevrolet cars, trucks, and SUVs (plus Dodge, Jeep, Ram, and Chrysler lines under the CDJR banner), offers commercial fleet sales, and operates parts, service/repair, body shop, and financing departments. It is squarely an operating company — it sells and services vehicles; it does not develop or license technology.

Patent-litigation posture. Patterson Motors of Kilgore is a defendant, not a plaintiff: its only tracked suit is Context Directions LLC v. Patterson Motors of Kilgore, Inc. (2:25-cv-00624), filed June 12, 2025, in the Eastern District of Texas. The plaintiff is Context Directions LLC, a non-practicing entity controlled by Jeffrey M. Gross (per Unified Patents and RPX). The company has zero tracked cases as plaintiff, consistent with an operating company defending against NPE assertions.

Notable cases / context. In that suit, Context Directions asserts U.S. Patents 9,807,564 and 10,142,791 (mobile-device context detection), alleging that Patterson's sale of certain Mazda and Toyota vehicles with camera/radar ADAS sensors infringes. RPX notes Context Directions filed a single E.D. Tex. complaint naming several Patterson-owned dealerships at once; the plaintiff has filed similar automotive-dealer suits in the same venue. Unified Patents has also challenged the '791 patent in USPTO reexamination, where it was characterized as a Gross NPE. No merits assessment is offered here.