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9 cases as plaintiff.
Neo Wireless, LLC is a patent-holding and licensing entity headquartered in Wayne, Pennsylvania, formed in 2019 and renamed from CFIP NCF LLC around 2020. It is privately held and has no public ticker; RPX and Unified Patents identify it as an affiliate of Fortress Investment Group's IP finance business ("Fortress IP entity"). No reliable public figures for employee count or revenue are available, consistent with its role as a licensing vehicle.
Operations. Neo Wireless does not make or sell products or operate commercial services. Its business is licensing a patent portfolio acquired in November 2019 from Neocific IP, the entity founded by inventors Xiaodong (Alex) Li and Titus Lo. Reported portfolio scope: roughly 14 U.S. patent families, ~66 U.S. patents and 17 pending applications, plus European and Asian assets. The patents claim OFDMA-based wireless technologies — random access, pilot/probing signals, carrier aggregation, control channels, and related features — asserted as covering 3GPP LTE and 5G/NR standards, including in-vehicle cellular telematics.
Litigation posture. This is a pure plaintiff-side NPE: 9 tracked cases as plaintiff, 0 as defendant. Cases cluster in districts favored for patent plaintiffs — the Western and Eastern Districts of Texas and others — before being consolidated. In 2021 Neo sued Apple, Dell, and LG Electronics over 4G/LTE and 5G devices. In 2022 it filed successive waves against automakers (Ford, GM, Honda, Nissan, Tesla, Toyota, Volkswagen, then Mercedes-Benz and FCA US/Stellantis). It has not been a defendant in the tracked data.
Notable context. The automaker suits were centralized by the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation into In re Neo Wireless, LLC Patent Litigation, No. 2:22-md-03034 (E.D. Mich., Detroit), before Judge Terrence Berg. Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen settled and were dismissed (2023–January 2024); other defendants pressed PTAB inter partes reviews and ex parte reexaminations of the asserted patents. Neo also filed a German suit against Volkswagen and litigated a Unified Patent Court opt-out dispute. Unified Patents characterizes Neo as an NPE asserting a Fortress-backed portfolio.
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Neo Wireless sued Mercedes-Benz USA in M.D. Fla. (3:22-cv-00780); the case was transferred into MDL 3034 as 2:22-cv-11769-TGB. It was dismissed with prejudice by joint Rule 41(a)(2) motion after settlement; Mercedes was dropped from the MDL in June 2023.
Neo Wireless sued FCA US, LLC (Stellantis) in N.D. Ohio (3:22-cv-01252); the case was transferred into MDL 3034 as 2:22-cv-11770-TGB. No final judgment was found, and it remained an MDL member case.
Neo Wireless sued Toyota Motor Corporation and others in E.D. Tex. (2:22-cv-00093); the case was transferred into MDL 3034 as 2:22-cv-11406-TGB. It remained pending in the MDL, with the '512 patent asserted.
Neo Wireless sued General Motors Company and others in E.D. Tex. (2:22-cv-00094); the case was transferred into MDL 3034 as 2:22-cv-11407-TGB. It remained pending in the MDL, with the '512 patent asserted.
Neo Wireless sued Tesla Inc. in E.D. Tex. (2:22-cv-00095); the case was transferred into MDL 3034 as 2:22-cv-11408-TGB. It remained pending in the MDL, but the narrative caveats that the '512 assertion is unverified because Tesla's AO-120 listed five asserted patents without the '512 patent.
Neo Wireless sued Volkswagen Group of America and VW Group of America Chattanooga Operations in E.D. Tenn. (1:22-cv-00076); the case was transferred into MDL 3034 as 2:22-cv-11404-TGB. The court dismissed all claims/counterclaims with prejudice on Jan. 11, 2024, by joint FRCP 41(a)(2) motion after settlement, each party bearing its own costs; the related IPR was terminated by settlement.
Neo Wireless sued Ford Motor Company in W.D. Mo. (4:22-cv-00210); the case was transferred into MDL 3034 as 2:22-cv-11402-TGB. It remained pending in the MDL; the related IPR on the '512 patent terminated by settlement in Feb. 2024.
Neo Wireless sued American Honda Motor Co. and others in S.D. Ohio (2:22-cv-01824); the case was transferred into MDL 3034 as 2:22-cv-11403-TGB. It remained pending in the MDL, with the '512 patent asserted.
Neo Wireless sued Nissan North America and others in M.D. Tenn. (3:22-cv-00220); the case was transferred into MDL 3034 as 2:22-cv-11405-TGB. It remained pending in the MDL.