Plaintiff
17 cases as plaintiff.
Innovative Global Systems, LLC (IGS) — a South Carolina limited liability company headquartered in Rock Hill, SC, with members in South Carolina and North Carolina. Per its affiliate's website, IGS was formed in 2008 by Alan C. Lesesky as an IP holding company; patent rights were transferred to it from Vehicle Enhancement Systems, Inc. (VES), a Rock Hill–based heavy-duty vehicle electronics developer Lesesky founded in 1991 and also leads as CEO. IGS is privately held; no employee counts, revenue, or funding figures are publicly disclosed, and no parent company is identified.
Operations. IGS is a patent holding and licensing entity, not an operating manufacturer. Its portfolio, largely credited to inventor Lesesky, covers vehicle-to-remote-terminal wireless data communications, driver hours-of-service (HOS) logging and compliance reporting, fuel-tax/fuel-data reporting, and tractor-trailer data systems — technology it licensed to telematics vendors, historically on per-unit royalties (e.g., the 2007 and 2011 Zonar license agreements). Associated operating activity sits at VES, which provides R&D and engineering services in tractor/trailer electronics. Unified Patents' PTAB database classifies IGS as an NPE patent owner.
Litigation posture. Predominantly a plaintiff-asserting licensor: 18 tracked cases as plaintiff versus 5 as defendant, and every "defendant" entry is a PTAB inter partes review petition filed by an accused infringer, not a district-court suit against IGS. The 2009–2011 wave — Turnpike Global, Teletrac, OnStar, PeopleNet, Volvo Construction Equipment, Rand McNally — clustered in the Eastern District of Texas (Tyler Division); later suits against Zonar, NexTraq, Blue Tree Systems, Keep Truckin, and Samsara moved to D.S.C., N.D. Ga., and D. Del.
Notable matters. IGS v. Zonar (D.S.C. 2018) was a royalty/breach dispute after Continental AG's acquisition of Zonar and Zonar's halt of payments; Zonar countered with IPRs. IGS v. Keep Truckin (Motive) produced IPR2020-00694 (all challenged claims of U.S. 10,157,384 held unpatentable) and a Federal Circuit appeal, No. 2021-2289, affirmed June 15, 2022.
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IGS patent infringement suit in D. Del. asserting 8,032,277 and 10,157,384 against Samsara Networks. Case was pending as of the last docket update in 2019.
IGS patent infringement suit in D. Del. asserting 8,032,277 and 10,157,384 against Keep Truckin. Motion to dismiss was briefed and the case was referred to mediation in 2020.
IGS patent infringement suit in D. Del. asserting 8,032,277 and 10,157,384 against Blue Tree Systems. IGS voluntarily dismissed the case on Aug. 29, 2019.
IGS filed a contract/royalty dispute against Zonar Systems in D.S.C. The matter referenced patents 6,946,953 and 7,102,494; the court ruled on Zonar's motion to dismiss/summary judgment in 2019.
IGS filed a case against Nextraq LLC in N.D. Ga. The docket remained active into 2019, with answer extensions granted; asserted patents were not captured.
IGS patent infringement action in E.D. Tex. asserting the same five Lesesky-family patents against Volvo Construction Equipment North America and others. All defendants were dismissed.
IGS filed a patent infringement suit in E.D. Tex. asserting the Lesesky-family patents 6,608,554; 6,411,203; 6,744,352; 7,015,800; and 7,449,993 against Turnpike Global Technologies and other defendants. The case closed on Aug. 2, 2010, with final judgment on Aug. 3, 2010 after all defendants settled.
IGS patent infringement action in E.D. Tex. asserting the same five Lesesky-family patents against Teletrac and others. Final judgment entered Jan. 4, 2011 after all defendants were resolved/dismissed.
IGS patent infringement action in E.D. Tex. asserting the same five Lesesky-family patents against OnStar and others. Pending at the time of a later complaint, with one of six defendants remaining.
IGS patent infringement action in E.D. Tex. asserting the same five Lesesky-family patents against PeopleNet. Case resolved and dismissed.
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.
Federal Circuit appeal captioned IGS v. Motive Technologies. The court affirmed the PTAB decision in an IPR arising from the KeepTruckin/Motive dispute over the '277 continuation (8,032,277).
IGS appealed the Board's IPR2020-00694 decision invalidating the '384 claims. The Federal Circuit affirmed in a nonprecedential per curiam decision on June 15, 2022.
IGS's ELD enforcement action in the Northern District of Georgia against NexTraq asserted the '277 patent and the '556 patent (collectively the ELD Patents). The complaint included direct and induced infringement counts; the outcome was not confirmed.
A case brought by Innovative Global Systems, LLC in the Eastern District of Texas. The narrative did not verify the defendant identities, outcome, or whether the '993 patent specifically was asserted.
Innovative Global Systems, LLC appealed a PTAB inter partes review to the Federal Circuit. The Federal Circuit affirmed in a nonprecedential judgment on June 15, 2022. The narrative could not confirm which IGS patent family member was at issue.
Described in a Feb. 2012 IGS pleading as resolved and dismissed; defendant not confirmed.