Telematics Corp.

I'll research this company before writing the profile.

Key finding: this entity appears to be an Acacia Research subsidiary. Let me verify further.

Let me check the most recent case and the parent's current status.

Telematics Corporation is a patent-licensing entity operating as a subsidiary of Acacia Research Corporation (Nasdaq: ACTG), the Newport Beach, California-based company whose subsidiaries acquire, develop, and license patent portfolios and share licensing revenue with patent owners. Telematics Corp. has no independent operating business, products, or published headcount or revenue of its own; its disclosures appear only through Acacia press releases describing it as an "Acacia subsidiary." Its portfolio traces to applications filed in 1992 by Mobile Information Systems, Inc. and prosecuted by Townsend and Townsend and Crew, covering "systems and methods for displaying mobile vehicle information on a map."

Operations. Telematics Corp. does not make or sell anything. It holds and asserts a patent portfolio directed to vehicle location tracking, computer-aided dispatch, and graphical fleet management — used commercially in navigation and fleet-management systems combining wireless communication with GPS tracking and map displays. Patents asserted in its complaints include U.S. Patent Nos. 5,428,546; 5,594,650; 5,636,122; 5,758,313; 5,884,216; 5,904,727; 5,922,040; and 6,088,648. Acacia's model is to license the patents to corporate users, typically settling suits via paid license agreements.

Litigation posture. The case data show Telematics Corp. as plaintiff in 3 tracked cases and defendant in 0 — the classic profile of a non-practicing patent holder rather than an operating company. All three were filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division, a venue that appears tied to where the patents' original owner operated rather than to a notoriously plaintiff-friendly district like the Eastern District of Texas.

Notable cases. Telematics Corp. v. Actsoft, Inc. et al. (2010) named ten fleet-telematics defendants, including Fleetmatics USA, Geotab, OnStar, Skypatrol, and Wireless Matrix; it produced an Acacia-announced license with Actsoft and a related Intergis settlement in January 2011. Telematics Corp. v. DataTrac Corp. (2008) named twelve defendants; Telematics Corp. v. CarrierWeb, L.L.C. (2012) targeted CarrierWeb's "ALWAYS-On" mobile communications platform. Press releases also credit the same subsidiary with licenses to Telogis, Gearworks, Navman Wireless, and Fleet Management Solutions. The 2010–2011 case drew attention for a disputed conflict motion seeking disqualification of Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton, which had merged with the firm that prosecuted the patents.