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4 cases as plaintiff.
Company overview. BJ's Wholesale Club Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: BJ) is the holding company for BJ's Wholesale Club, a membership-based warehouse club chain. It is headquartered at 350 Campus Drive, Marlborough, Massachusetts; the underlying business was founded in 1984 and the holding company (formerly Beacon Holding Inc.) was renamed and taken public in an IPO in June 2018. It is a large-cap public company: roughly 33,000–35,000 employees, trailing-twelve-month revenue around $21–22 billion (FY2025 revenue ~$20.5B; FY2026 ~$21.5B), and a market capitalization of roughly $10.5–12.3 billion, per PitchBook, StockAnalysis, and Barron's.
Operations. BJ's operates approximately 260 membership warehouse clubs concentrated in the eastern half of the United States across about 21 states. Sales skew heavily to grocery, perishables, and consumables (~72% of sales), with general merchandise (~11%) and gasoline (~17%), supported by recurring membership fees and private-label brands including Wellsley Farms and Berkley Jensen. It also operates the BJ's Mobile App, which includes the Express Pay scan-and-go checkout feature, along with curbside pickup, same-day delivery, and fuel stations.
Patent-litigation posture. BJ's is an operating company, not a patent assertion entity. All three tracked matters stem from a single competitor dispute: Sam's West, Inc. and Walmart Apollo, LLC (both Walmart Inc. entities) sued BJ's in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Orlando Division (6:22-cv-00587, filed March 22, 2022), alleging that BJ's Mobile App and Express Pay infringe four Walmart patents covering mobile self-checkout and location-based retail services. BJ's two "defendant" appearances cover that district suit and Walmart Apollo's Federal Circuit appeal; its single "plaintiff" appearance is a PTAB inter partes review petition (IPR2022-01528, et al., filed September 22, 2022) — a defensive validity challenge to the same patents.
Notable context. BJ's filed multiple IPR petitions challenging the asserted Walmart Apollo patents; the PTAB found all challenged claims of U.S. Patent No. 10,803,435 unpatentable, and the Federal Circuit affirmed in Walmart Apollo, LLC v. BJ's Wholesale Club Holdings, Inc. (No. 24-1952, et al.) in April 2026. The district case was stayed during the IPR proceedings. The dispute centers on scan-and-go mobile checkout technology comparable to Sam's Club's "Scan & Go."
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BJ's petitioned for inter partes review of the '435 patent. The PTAB instituted review and issued a final written decision on April 11, 2024, addressing claims 15-19 and finding prior art anticipation/obviousness. Walmart appealed, and the Federal Circuit affirmed.
Inter partes review petitioned by BJ's Wholesale Club challenging all 19 claims of U.S. Patent No. 10,368,188. The PTAB issued a Final Written Decision on April 3, 2024, finding the challenged claims of the '188 patent not unpatentable, and an IPR certificate was issued on July 5, 2024.
BJ's petitioned for inter partes review of the '187 patent. The PTAB instituted review on April 12, 2023, and issued a Final Written Decision on April 4, 2024, not finding the challenged claims unpatentable; an IPR certificate issued July 5, 2024. No Federal Circuit appeal of this IPR decision was identified.
IPR petition challenging claims 1-6 of US Patent 10,121,133. The PTAB denied institution on April 12, 2023, so the proceeding was terminated without a merits review.