Company overview. Clear Water Systems Limited (company no. NI719958) is a private limited company registered in Northern Ireland. Companies House shows it incorporated on 14 August 2024, with its registered office at Catalyst, The Innovation Centre, Queen's Road, Queen's Island, Belfast BT3 9DT. A DAERA freedom-of-information response identifies Richard James Boyd as its managing director and sole stockholder. It is an early-stage, privately held company; no public source discloses employee counts, revenue, or funding beyond the grant figures cited below. (The name collides with unrelated water-treatment firms in Bermuda, Ontario, and Ohio; the Northern Ireland entity is the one in the case data, confirmed by the DAERA filing naming both Boyd and the co-plaintiffs.)
Products / operations. Filings list its activities as engineering-related scientific and technical consulting (SIC 71122) and research and experimental development in biotechnology and other natural sciences (72110, 72190). Its principal disclosed technology is the "SlipStream" processor, an in-line, mobile water-treatment system intended for in-situ disruption and toxin reduction of harmful algal (cyanobacterial) blooms. It is not a patent assertion entity and shows no patent-assertion activity.
Patent-litigation posture. The single tracked matter is not a patent suit. Clear Water Systems appears once, as a defendant (0 plaintiff cases), in a New York Supreme Court commercial/contract action in Onondaga County — a neutral-to-defendant posture consistent with an operating technology developer, not an NPE. The case is a contract dispute, not an infringement claim.
Notable case. Eget Liber, Inc. et al. v. Clear Water Systems Limited et al., filed 1 December 2025. Plaintiffs include Eget Liber, Inc., Jason Dean, RanMarine Technologies BV and Richard Hardiman; defendants include the company and Richard James Boyd. The docket reflects a defence motion to dismiss and a request for injunctive relief, with the case open and a settlement conference in mid-2026. Public context: the parties collaborated on a DAERA Small Business Research Initiative project targeting algal blooms in Lough Neagh; DAERA records that Clear Water Systems received £155,893.50 gross and terminated its Phase 2 participation on 2 February 2026, repaying £66,510. No position is taken here on the merits.