RM Acquisition, LLC — patent litigation as defendant

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RM Acquisition, LLC (d/b/a Rand McNally)

RM Acquisition, LLC is a private, Chicago-based company that operates under the Rand McNally brand name. Its headquarters are at 8770 W. Bryn Mawr Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, and "Rand McNally" has been its registered d/b/a since the 2007 acquisition transaction that created the entity. The underlying business was founded in 1856 as a map and atlas publisher. Ownership passed from AEA Investors to Leonard Green, then to Patriarch Partners (Lynn Tilton) in 2007, and since October 2020 the company has been owned by private equity firm TELEO Capital, which closed a $250 million inaugural fund the same year. Size figures are inconsistent across third-party data sources — ZoomInfo lists roughly 338 employees while Tracxn records 80 as of December 2024 — and the company does not publish revenue. It is not publicly traded.

The company is an operating business, not a shell. It sells fleet-management and connected-vehicle technology: electronic logging devices (ELDs), video telematics and AI-powered dash cameras sold under the Rand Video Telematics line, driver-management and compliance software, and truck-specific navigation hardware such as the TND tablet line. It also retains its legacy consumer road atlases, printed maps, and education publishing products. Growth has come partly through acquisitions, including Australia-based connected-vehicle platform Fleetsu (2022) and fleet-safety firm SafetyDirect.

Patent-litigation posture: RM Acquisition/Rand McNally appears in the tracked data only as a defendant (1 case; 0 as plaintiff), which is consistent with an operating company being targeted rather than an entity asserting patents.

Notable case: Navog LLC v. RM Acquisition, LLC, No. 1:24-cv-04023 (N.D. Ill., filed May 16, 2024). Navog asserted U.S. Patent 10,593,205 B1 ("GPS and warning system"), covering low-clearance/underpass alerts for trucks, buses, and RVs, against Rand McNally's navigation products. The case was voluntarily dismissed without prejudice on August 19, 2024, before any answer. Navog is characterized by Unified Patents as an NPE and an entity of Eric Zautner; it filed parallel suits against Panasonic, Trimble, Sygic, TomTom, Verizon, Garmin, Samsara, Motive, Trucker Path, and Powerfleet, largely in the Eastern District of Texas and Delaware. RPX noted Navog's apparent non-compliance with N.D. Ill. local rules in the Rand McNally matter.