Wagner Cadillac Company, Ltd.

Company Profile: Wagner Cadillac Company, Ltd.

Company overview. Wagner Cadillac Company, Ltd. is a privately held Texas limited partnership that operates as Wagner Cadillac, a Cadillac dealership in Tyler, Texas, with a second location at 5855 Old Jacksonville Highway. Directory sources date the dealership's founding to 1961, while Texas Secretary of State records show the partnership entity filed in 1966. The dealership's general partner is Wagner Operating, LLC; a third-party directory also lists the operating entity as "Tyler Cadillac LP dba Wagner Cadillac." Size figures are limited to aggregator estimates of roughly 11–50 employees; revenue is not publicly disclosed.

Products / services / operations. Wagner Cadillac sells new Cadillac models (LYRIQ, Escalade, XT4, XT5, CT5) and pre-owned vehicles across multiple brands, and offers financing and leasing. It operates a factory-authorized parts department, a service and maintenance department, and a GM Certified Collision Center that repairs all makes and models.

Patent-litigation posture. This is an operating company defending against a non-practicing entity: it has 0 tracked cases as plaintiff and 1 as defendant. On June 12, 2025, Context Directions LLC sued Wagner Cadillac Company, Ltd. in the Eastern District of Texas (Case 2:25-cv-00627, before Judge Rodney Gilstrap) for infringement of U.S. Patent Nos. 9,807,564 and 10,142,791 — patents covering context-aware/contextual-location mobile-device technology. Context Directions is a patent assertion entity that filed a wave of near-identical suits in E.D. Tex. against numerous Texas auto dealerships in the same period (Peters Chevrolet, Patterson Motors, Tyler Motor Company, Gulliver USA, and others), accusing dealerships' sold vehicles' telematics/infotainment systems.

Notable context. The Wagner Cadillac case is one suit in a broader NPE campaign targeting dealerships rather than automakers, filed in a venue known for plaintiff-friendly patent litigation. The accused product set in the campaign spans a broad range of vehicle makes and model years. No substantive rulings have been publicly docketed in the Wagner Cadillac matter.