GEOTAB USA Inc.

Geotab USA, Inc. is the U.S. subsidiary of Geotab Inc., a privately held, employee-owned company with no outside investors. Geotab was founded in 2000 by Neil Cawse in Oakville, Ontario (the name blends "geospatial" and "tabulation"), and the parent is described in the company's own materials as headquartered in Oakville and Atlanta, Georgia; some directories list Geotab USA at a Carson City, Nevada address, and Geotab USA's corporate disclosure statement in the case below identifies Geotab Inc. as its parent. The Logic reported the parent was on track for roughly C$970 million in 2024 revenue; Geotab's own press materials cite more than 2,700 employees, ~100,000 customers, and roughly 5–6 million connected vehicle subscriptions. No public ticker exists.

Operations. Geotab is a telematics and connected-vehicle company, not an NPE. It sells GO-series vehicle tracking devices (including GO9, GO9 RUGGED and GO9+), the MyGeotab fleet-management platform, the Geotab Drive mobile app, video telematics, EV Suitability Assessment tools, and an SDK/API ecosystem with a third-party app Marketplace. Offerings cover GPS/asset tracking, driver safety scoring, ELD/Hours-of-Service compliance, DVIR, and fleet diagnostics. Geotab has acquired BSM Technologies, FleetCarma, and Intendia, and states it owns its device, firmware, and software IP.

Litigation posture. The single tracked case shows Geotab as a plaintiff only (1 as plaintiff, 0 as defendant), consistent with an operating company using a declaratory-judgment action rather than a portfolio-assertion strategy. In Geotab Inc. et al. v. Fleet Connect Solutions LLC (D.N.J., 1:24-cv-06089, filed May 13, 2024), Geotab sought declarations of non-infringement of roughly 20 patents on GPS telematics, wireless vehicle communications, and field-asset management. Defendant Fleet Connect Solutions is characterized in third-party sources (including a Platform Science complaint and Unified Patents) as a non-practicing entity affiliated with Empire IP, which had asserted the same patents against Geotab customers such as LKQ, Enterprise, Orkin, and Wheels.

Context. Venue was the District of New Jersey rather than a plaintiff-friendly Texas district, reflecting Fleet Connect's Parsippany, New Jersey base. The court administratively terminated the action on November 5, 2024 after settlement was reported; no merits ruling issued on any patent. Third-party dockets also list a separate Fleet Connect suit against Geotab in Nevada, which is outside our tracked data.