Designers Eyewear Studio, Inc.

Designers Eyewear Studio, Inc.

Company overview. The company appears in litigation records as a defendant only; the closest match in public records is Designer's Eyewear Studio, Corp., a Florida profit corporation incorporated September 23, 1998 (FL Doc. # P98000082558), with a principal address at 3042 NW 82nd Ave., Doral, Florida 33122. Its registered agent and listed C.E.O./president is Fortunato Farache. Florida corporate records show a voluntary dissolution filed September 27, 2018. It is privately held with no public ticker; no employee or revenue figures could be verified. The case caption ("Inc.") and the state registration ("Corp.") differ slightly, and I could not independently confirm they are the same legal entity.

Products / services. The Doral entity owned the MARINI trademark (Reg. #4,938,812, first use March 2015, registered April 2016) covering eyewear: sunglasses, eyeglasses, ophthalmic frames, cases, pouches, retainers, nose pads, and sport, safety and protective eyewear; that registration was cancelled in 2022 under Section 8. This is consistent with a small, private eyewear seller/wholesaler rather than a manufacturer or a patent-holding shell.

Patent-litigation posture. The structured data show 0 plaintiff cases and 1 defendant case — the profile of an operating company being sued, not an NPE. Its only tracked suit is Aspex Eyewear, Inc. v. Designers Eyewear Studio, Inc., a magnetic clip-on eyewear patent dispute; the record includes a December 22, 2006 Markman claim-construction order addressing U.S. Patents 5,737,054; 6,012,811; and 6,092,896 (magnetically attached auxiliary spectacle frames). Venue could not be confirmed from the available sources.

Context. Aspex Eyewear, Inc. (Pembroke Park, Florida) is an eyewear company and exclusive U.S. licensee of magnetic-eyewear patents owned by Contour Optik, Inc. of Taiwan, and it ran a multi-defendant enforcement campaign against eyewear sellers (Altair, E'Lite Optik, Miracle Optics, Zenni, Avalon, among others). Designers Eyewear Studio was drawn into that campaign as an accused seller. Designers Eyewear Studio and Fortunato Farache also appeared as amici curiae in Aspex Eyewear, Inc. v. Altair Eyewear, Inc. (Fed. Cir. No. 07-1380, 2007–2008).