Defendant
1 case as defendant.
ArCzar LLC (also styled "ArCzar, Inc." in some dockets) is a private Texas limited liability company. According to contemporaneous reporting, it was formed in Houston, Texas in July 2011 and operated from 104 East Houston Street, Suite 170, Marshall, Texas — inside the Eastern District of Texas. It has no SEC filings and no publicly available employee or revenue data; reports describe its principal, Craig North, as affiliated with several other small LLCs (e.g., Blackstone River, Fowler Woods, Tallgrass Prairie Management).
Products / operations: ArCzar appears to have had no operating business or products. It acted as the exclusive licensee — with rights to sue and recover past damages — of patents owned by GeoVector Corporation of San Francisco, most prominently U.S. Patent No. 6,037,936 ("Computer Vision System with a Graphic User Interface and Remote Camera Control"), plus related computer-vision/augmented-reality patents (e.g., 7,916,138; 5,682,332; 6,031,545; 7,301,536). ArCzar and GeoVector frequently sued as co-plaintiffs.
Patent-litigation posture: A classic non-practicing patent assertion entity. Unified Patents classifies ArCzar as an "NPE (Patent Assertion Entity)," and the Stanford NPE Litigation Database tags its campaigns as acquired/individual-inventor-started patents. Its own suits targeted consumer tech companies — Yelp, Hasbro, Nintendo, Sony, IKEA, ZipRealty, Harman, and WowWee — and were filed almost entirely in the Marshall division of the Eastern District of Texas, a historically plaintiff-friendly venue. The single case tracked in our database, Navico Inc. v. ArCzar LLC (N.D. Okla., filed Aug. 22, 2012), reflects the reverse: ArCzar is the defendant because Navico, after being sued by ArCzar over fish-finding sonar and GPS mapping products, filed a declaratory-judgment action against ArCzar's patents.
Notable context: In that Oklahoma dispute, ArCzar's infringement suit was dismissed after Navico (parent of the Lowrance, Simrad, and B&G marine brands) refused to settle; Navico said ArCzar withdrew and paid Navico a sum to resolve the matter. ArCzar's later suits against Nintendo and Sony settled under a license agreement dated May 26, 2014, ending with dismissals with prejudice. GeoVector continued asserting the same '936 patent family after ArCzar's campaigns wound down.
Patent litigation linked to US Patent 7,031,875 through Google Patents/Unified Patents metadata. The case is identified as Navico Inc. v. ArCzar LLC in the Northern District of Oklahoma. The narrative notes that the specific assertion of the '875 patent was not independently confirmed from the docket.