Quad/Graphics, Inc. (commonly "Quad") is a publicly traded company listed on the NYSE under the ticker QUAD. It is headquartered in Sussex, Wisconsin (N61 W23044 Harry's Way), was founded in 1971 by Harry V. Quadracci, and is led by Chairman/CEO J. Joel Quadracci. It is an independent operator corporation, not a subsidiary. Quad reports roughly 10,000–11,000 employees across about 10–11 countries, serves approximately 2,100 clients, and posted net sales of roughly $2.4 billion in 2025; its market capitalization has recently been around $0.4 billion.
Products and services. Quad describes itself as a "marketing experience" (MX) company. Its MX Solutions Suite spans commercial printing and marketing services: retail inserts, catalogs, magazines and long-run publications, direct mail, directories, books, packaging, in-store marketing and promotional materials. It also operates marketing and agency services (media agency Rise and creative agency Betty), data intelligence and analytics, media planning and placement, content creation, and non-print digital/broadcast execution. Vertically integrated capabilities include mailing, distribution and logistics, paper procurement, and in-house ink manufacturing. It reports through U.S. Print and Related Services and International segments and ranks among North America's largest commercial printers.
Patent-litigation posture. Quad is exclusively a defendant in the tracked data: 0 cases as plaintiff, 5 as defendant. It is an operating company defending against patent assertions, not a litigant asserting its own portfolio. All five tracked suits were filed by RAH Color Technologies LLC, a Virginia limited liability company managed by Dr. Richard A. Holub, asserting patents directed to color measurement and color-management technology — a non-practicing entity posture.
Notable cases and context. The tracked matters are RAH Color Technologies LLC v. Quad/Graphics, Inc., filed in the Northern District of Illinois (Chicago) in June 2017 and in the Eastern District of Wisconsin (assigned to Judge J.P. Stadtmueller) in January 2018, plus a related 2018 action consolidated/transferred to the Northern District of California as RAH Color Technologies LLC v. Adobe Inc. et al. RAH filed parallel color-management suits against Adobe, Xerox, X-Rite, Heidelberg and others around 2017–2020. The venue cluster is the Midwest and N.D. Cal. rather than the Eastern District of Texas.