Defendant

Camelot SL, LLC d/b/a SharperImage.com

1 case as defendant.

Cases
1
Active
0
1 closed
Filed
2015
Top venue
N.D. California
1 case

Company profile

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Camelot SI, LLC — d/b/a SharperImage.com (styled "Camelot SL, LLC" in the 2015 complaint and Align's related press release) is a privately held Michigan company headquartered in Novi, Michigan (some listings cite Farmington Hills). Its sole member is Camelot Venture Group, LLC, a Michigan private investment group focused on direct-to-consumer businesses. It is not publicly traded. Third-party headcount trackers (Crustdata, LeadIQ) put staffing at roughly 180–200, but no verified revenue figure is public; in 2023 it closed a $37 million revolving credit facility with Siena Lending Group.

The company is the U.S. direct-to-consumer operator and licensee of the Sharper Image brand, selling home electronics, air purifiers, massage and personal-care devices, gadgets, and gifts through SharperImage.com, a print catalog, and third-party marketplaces including Amazon and eBay. Camelot Venture Group relaunched the SharperImage.com site and catalog in 2009–2010 and acquired the U.S. direct-to-consumer rights from Iconix Brand Group in 2014. The underlying Sharper Image trademark is now owned by ThreeSixty Group (Irvine, California); Camelot holds e-commerce/catalog license rights, not an asserted patent portfolio. It is an operating retailer, not a non-practicing entity.

Litigation posture: the tracked data show 0 cases as plaintiff and 1 as defendant — the profile of an operating company being sued, not a patent assertor. The single tracked matter sits in the Northern District of California, not a plaintiff-friendly patent venue.

Notable case: Align Technology, Inc. v. SmileCareClub LLC et al. (N.D. Cal., filed Oct. 22, 2015). Align asserted fourteen patents covering clear aligners plus false advertising and unfair competition claims; Camelot/SI and Brookstone were named for marketing and selling SmileCareClub's clear-aligner system, not for manufacturing it. Outside the tracked patent set, Camelot SI has been an active plaintiff in trademark litigation against licensor ThreeSixty Brands Group (2021), and a law-firm report lists a separate patent suit by Random Chat LLC against Camelot SI concerning multimedia communications technology.

Align Technology, Inc. v. SmileCareClub LLC et al.

closed
Docket:
5:15-cv-04864
Filed:
2015-10-22
Patents:5975893

Align Technology sued SmileCareClub, Camelot SL, and Brookstone for patent infringement and false advertising/unfair competition. The complaint asserted fourteen Align patents, with U.S. Patent No. 5,975,893 first-listed and attached as Exhibit A. The docket status is closed, but termination terms were not verified.