Clear Imaging Research, LLC

Clear Imaging Research, LLC has come back to the courts, this time suing Alphabet (Google) (3:25-cv-00221). In the Southern District of California complaint, the inventor-controlled plaintiff targets the provision of image and video stabilization features within various Pixel-series smartphones, doing so with seven patents from the same large family at issue in earlier suits filed against first Samsung and then Apple. Clear Imaging Research pleads that Google’s alleged infringement has been willful, citing a notice letter purportedly sent as early as July 2017, with subsequent communications extending into early 2025.

Roughly two years ago, on the eve of trial, Clear Imaging Research, LLC dismissed with prejudice an Eastern District of Texas case against Samsung in light of a noticed settlement. The inventor-controlled plaintiff has now returned to litigation, this time suing Apple (3:23-cv-00673) in the Southern District of California over patents from the same large family, all generally related to image capture and processing. Samsung challenged the rights held by Clear Imaging Research in the patents that it asserted there; two additional assignments have since been recorded with the USPTO to—“[f]or the avoidance of doubt”—clarify that Clear Imaging Research owns all right, title, and interest in family of patents, including “all rights to sue and collect for past damages”.

Inventor-controlled Clear Imaging Research, LLC has filed suit in the Eastern District of Texas against Samsung (2:19-cv-00326), accusing the tech giant of infringing six image capture and processing patents through the provision of a long list of smartphones and tablets. The plaintiff pleads that it was founded by Fatih Ozluturk, the sole inventor named on the asserted patents, a former engineer with InterDigital, Inc. and former managing principal of Soryn IP Group, LLC.