Plaintiff
1 case as plaintiff.
Wild Sales, LLC (d/b/a Wild Sports) is a private consumer-products company headquartered at 17401 Tiller Court, Westfield, Indiana (north of Indianapolis), founded in 2004 (PitchBook). It was recapitalized in 2017 by Expedition Capital Partners, Centerfield Capital Partners and Cardinal Equity Partners alongside founders Todd Hines and Gregg Browne, then acquired by EastPoint Sports (Succasunna, New Jersey) in mid-2019 and is now part of the EastPoint brand family. No verified employee count or revenue figure is publicly disclosed; Centerfield's investment criteria ($15M–$100M revenue targets) and a reported ~$8.37M raise are the only size signals, and they are not company-confirmed.
Operations. Wild Sports manufactures and distributes licensed and branded tailgating, homegating and outdoor games. Product lines include bean-bag toss/cornhole sets sold as Tailgate Toss, Stackers tabletop games, team-branded tables and chairs, and the KanJam flying-disc game acquired in 2018. It holds licenses with the NFL, MLB and NHL and 500-plus college licenses (CLC, LRG), selling through big-box and online retail. This is a genuine operating company, not a patent-assertion vehicle.
Litigation posture. The tracked data shows Wild Sales as plaintiff in a single case and defendant in none — consistent with an operating company rather than an NPE. That case, Wild Sales, LLC v. Tailgate Nation, Inc., No. 4:08-cv-00771 (E.D. Mo., filed May 29, 2008; a companion No. 4:08-cv-00772 also exists), sits in the Eastern District of Missouri, its home region, not a plaintiff-friendly venue such as the Eastern District of Texas.
Context. External dockets (Justia; Stanford's NPE database) indicate the 2008 dispute was two-way: inventor Bradford J. Gleeson and Tailgate Nation, Inc. sued Wild Sales and retailers including Amazon, Toys "R" Us, the NFL and Anheuser-Busch for patent infringement (Tailgate Nation v. Top Marketing USA, D. Or. 6:08-cv-00167 and E.D. Mo. 4:08-cv-01040), while Wild Sales filed its own Missouri action. Only the plaintiff-side filing appears in the tracked case list.
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Listed on the US 6,091,343 patent record as a litigation proceeding in the Eastern District of Missouri. Independent verification located docket 4:08-cv-00770, filed 2008-05-29 and captioned Wild Sales, LLC et al., but the narrative could not confirm that 6,091,343 was asserted and treats the match as unverified/possibly an aggregator mismatch.