Great Eyeglasses, LLC

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Great Eyeglasses, LLC (trading as GreatEyeGlasses.com and "Great Eye Glasses") was a privately held online retailer of discount prescription eyewear. Public records and press place its operations in San Anselmo, California (524 San Anselmo Ave., Ste. 104); a Scottsdale, Arizona address has also been associated with the greateyeglasses.com domain. The site launched around 2007, its GREATEYEGLASSES.COM trademark records a first use date of April 1, 2008, and a co-founder's biography states the business was sold in 2015. Co-owners included Andy Kaps and Jim Dean. No verified employee count or revenue figures are publicly available; contemporary press described it as a small, web-only operation.

Products and operations. The company sold glasses exclusively online, with lenses fabricated in company labs in China and frames sourced at volume. Offerings included prescription eyeglasses, sunglasses, reading glasses, fashion-only frames, kids' frames, and OSHA-compliant safety/shooting glasses, with lens add-ons such as tints (solid, gradient, polarized, mirrored), photochromic/transition lenses, blue-light blocking, anti-reflective, and scratch-resistant coatings. It advertised frames at price points from roughly $10–$15 and up.

Patent-litigation posture. Great Eyeglasses appears in the tracked data solely as a defendant (1 case, 0 as plaintiff) — the profile of an operating retailer targeted by a patent holder, not an NPE or active two-way litigant. The single suit, Aspex Eyewear, Inc. et al. v. Great Eyeglasses, LLC (No. 0:09-cv-61467, S.D. Fla., filed Sept. 17, 2009), was brought by Aspex Eyewear, Inc. (Pembroke Park, FL), the exclusive U.S. licensee of Taiwan-based Contour Optik, Inc., asserting infringement of magnetic clip-on/auxiliary-eyewear patents. The matter was filed in the Southern District of Florida — the plaintiffs' home district, not a plaintiff-friendly EDTX venue — and formed part of a broader Aspex/Contour enforcement campaign against online discount eyewear sellers; a parallel complaint was filed against Zenni Optical the same period. The outcome of the Great Eyeglasses case is not confirmed in available sources.