Costar Technologies Inc.

Costar Technologies, Inc. (short name: Costar; OTC Markets ticker CSTI until 2023) is a U.S. electronic-security manufacturer headquartered at 101 Wrangler Drive, Coppell, Texas. Public sources differ on founding year — some profiles give 1997, others 1946, reflecting the legacy Cohu/Costar lineage — so the founding date should be treated as uncertain. Historically a small-cap OTC-traded company (roughly 1.5 million shares outstanding per a 2018 disclosure; about 110 employees at its Coppell HQ per 2018 investor materials), it is no longer independent: South Korean video-surveillance manufacturer IDIS Co., Ltd. (KOSDAQ: 143160) completed its acquisition of Costar on August 18, 2023 at approximately $4.90 per share, and Costar now operates as a wholly owned IDIS subsidiary with shares delisted.

Products and operations. Costar develops, designs, manufactures, and distributes video-surveillance hardware and software, including IP and megapixel surveillance cameras, lenses, high-speed domes, network and digital video recorders (NVRs/DVRs), video management software, and video analytics. It also sells industrial machine-vision products for production and assembly-line inspection. Its subsidiaries have included Costar Video Systems, CohuHD Costar (long-range and traffic/transportation cameras), Innotech Security, IVS Imaging, and Arecont Vision Costar, the multi-imager and panoramic camera business whose assets Costar bought out of Arecont Vision's Chapter 11 bankruptcy in July 2018. End markets span retail, education, banking, government, transportation, and critical infrastructure. The company ranked in a&s magazine's Security 50 list of largest security manufacturers.

Litigation posture. Costar is an operating company, not an assertion entity: the tracked data show 0 plaintiff cases and 1 defendant case. It has no history of asserting patents and appears here solely as a target of third-party infringement claims.

Notable case. The single tracked matter is Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. v. Costar Technologies Inc., filed in the N.D. Tex. Cedar Lane is a Canadian-domiciled, widely recognized patent assertion entity that acquires portfolios (including patents originating with Intellectual Ventures) and has filed hundreds of suits targeting video, imaging, and software products; its cases concentrate in plaintiff-friendly Texas venues (W.D. Tex./E.D. Tex.) and D. Del., and the large majority settle. This suit fits that pattern and reflects Costar's camera and video-processing product lines.