Defendant
1 case as defendant.
RM Acquisition, LLC d/b/a Rand McNally & Company is a private Delaware limited liability company (organized November 2, 2007) that operates the Rand McNally business, an American mapping, navigation, and transportation-technology firm founded in 1856 by William H. Rand and Andrew McNally. It has no public ticker. Rand McNally has been wholly owned by private-equity firm TELEO Capital since October 2020, following earlier owners including Patriarch Partners, Leonard Green, and AEA Investors. Corporate listings have shifted: the company was long based in the Chicago area (Chicago/Skokie), reported no remaining Chicagoland address after 2024, and current state and D&B filings list 1100 W. Idaho St., Boise, Idaho. Third-party trackers put headcount at roughly 230; a reliable revenue figure was not verified.
Products / operations. Rand McNally is an operating company, not an NPE. It publishes printed and digital maps and atlases (notably the Rand McNally Road Atlas and "Thomas Guide" street guides), and sells commercial-transportation technology: truck GPS navigation devices, MileMaker routing/mileage software, electronic logging devices (ELDs), telematics and fleet-management software, and driver-facing video/telematics. It acquired Australia-based fleet platform Fleetsu (2022) and the SafetyDirect product line, portal, and operations from Knorr-Bremse in March 2024.
Patent-litigation posture. The case data shows only one tracked suit, in which RM Acquisition is the defendant and appears as plaintiff in none — the profile of an operating company defending, not asserting. The case is Innovative Global Systems, LLC v. RM Acquisition, LLC d/b/a Rand McNally & Company, No. 6:12-cv-00057 (E.D. Tex.), filed February 6, 2012 and terminated August 9, 2012. It was filed in the plaintiff-friendly Eastern District of Texas.
Context. Plaintiff Innovative Global Systems was an individual-inventor-started holding company (no operating business) that asserted a five-patent "telematics / vehicle data communication" portfolio against many fleet and vehicle-telematics defendants; press coverage and PTAB rulings later described it as a non-practicing entity. The asserted patents covered data communication between heavy-duty vehicles and remote terminals — the technology area of Rand McNally's fleet/ELD products. No merits findings are reported here.
IGS's sixth lawsuit asserting the same five Lesesky-family patents, filed against RM Acquisition, LLC d/b/a Rand McNally & Company. No case number was captured.