Defendant
1 case as defendant.
EagleView Technologies, Inc. ("EagleView") is a privately held geospatial technology company founded in 2008 by Chris Pershing and Dave Carlson. It was originally headquartered in Bothell, Washington and is now based in Bellevue, Washington, with major operations in Rochester, New York (the base of Pictometry International, which merged with EagleView in 2013). Ownership is private-equity: Vista Equity Partners acquired EagleView in 2015, and Clearlake Capital Group took joint control alongside Vista in 2018 (European Commission merger case M.9033). Financial statements are not public; third-party trackers give widely inconsistent size estimates (employee figures from roughly 400 to 1,000-plus; revenue estimates from about $100M to $500M-plus), so no precise figure is verifiable. Piers Dormeyer was named CEO in 2025.
EagleView sells high-resolution aerial imagery, 3D measurement software, and property-data analytics. Its imagery (orthogonal and oblique, historically branded Pictometry) and machine-learning pipelines produce roof measurement reports (e.g., the Inform line), property attributes such as roof condition, roof age, material, and solar suitability, and API-delivered property data through its Developer platform. Its drone-based Assess product performs autonomous inspections with AI damage detection for insurance claims, and its reports integrate with Verisk's Xactimate. Customers are concentrated in property and casualty insurance, roofing, solar, government/GIS, and real estate; the company states its imagery covers about 94% of the U.S. population and that it holds 300-plus patents.
Patent-litigation posture: EagleView is an operating company, not a patent assertion entity. In our tracked data it appears only once — as a defendant in a Patent Trial and Appeal Board matter, Nearmap US, Inc. v. EagleView Technologies, Inc. (filed 2022-05-10). Externally it is an active two-way litigant: EagleView has asserted geospatial patents against competitor Nearmap in district court, and Nearmap countered with multiple IPRs against EagleView patents.
Notable context: the tracked 2022 PTAB case (IPR2022-00734, involving U.S. Patent 9,135,737) arose from that Nearmap dispute; the Board found challenged claims unpatentable, and the Federal Circuit affirmed a related obviousness ruling in Eagle View Technologies v. Nearmap US (No. 24-1488, February 2026). An earlier PTAB challenge was Xactware Solutions v. Eagle View Technologies (IPR2016-00592).
Nearmap petitioned for inter partes review of US 8,670,961. The PTAB instituted the IPR and issued a final written decision on December 14, 2023, holding the challenged claims unpatentable as obvious; the Federal Circuit affirmed on February 3, 2026.