Defendant
3 cases as defendant.
Company overview. IMR16, Inc. is the corporate legal entity behind the iMemories consumer brand, headquartered at 9160 E. Del Camino Drive, Scottsdale, Arizona. iMemories was founded in the mid-2000s (PitchBook lists 2005; Tracxn and Marketscreener list 2006) by Mark A. Rukavina, who is listed as CEO of IMR16, Inc. It is private and has been private-equity backed, with roughly $19–25 million raised across multiple rounds from investors including Capital Southwest, Landon Capital Partners, Greens Farms Capital and kaleo. PitchBook lists about 120 employees; Tracxn lists about 140. PitchBook and Preqin report that Ancestry acquired iMemories in July 2025. Note: one aggregator (Tracxn) also lists a 2016 Lifetouch acquisition, which I could not corroborate elsewhere.
Products / services. iMemories is an operating company, not an NPE. It digitizes analog home movies, videotapes, film reels, slides, negatives and photographs mailed in by consumers via a "SafeShip" kit, returning digital files plus optional cloud streaming, USB, DVD/Blu-ray and AI-enhanced output. It also markets an app and cloud subscription service. Physical address, published per-item pricing and BBB records confirm real consumer operations.
Patent-litigation posture. IMR16 appears in the tracked data solely as a defendant (0 plaintiff cases, 1 defendant case) — the profile of an operating company being sued, not an asserter. The single tracked suit is YesVideo Incorporated v. IMR16 Incorporated, No. 2:16-cv-00865 (D. Ariz., filed 2016-03-30), a §271 action in which counterclaims were filed. The plaintiff, YesVideo, was classified as a "practicing entity" by Stanford's NPE database.
Notable context. The Arizona case followed YesVideo, Inc. v. iMemories, Inc., No. 2:15-cv-00809 (E.D. Tex., filed 2015-05-21, closed 2016-03-29), which asserted U.S. Patent No. 8,867,894 (priority date 2000) against iMemories' online video editing and distribution services. The 2016 Arizona filing named the IMR16 entity a day after the Texas case closed, essentially continuing the same dispute over home-video digitization and distribution technology.
YesVideo sued IMR16 for patent infringement under 35 U.S.C. § 271 in the District of Arizona, and the defendant filed counterclaims. The case was closed, with docket activity noted through 2016-08-10. The NPE database associates the case with sibling patent US 8,867,894 rather than confirmed US 8,630,529.
Listed in the Stanford NPE database as a YesVideo-as-patent-asserter case. The retrieved results do not show the specific patents-in-suit, and it could not be confirmed whether '755 was asserted. Outcome not confirmed.
YesVideo, Inc. filed a follow-on patent infringement suit against IMR16 Incorporated in the District of Arizona as part of the same 2015–2016 enforcement campaign. The patents asserted and final disposition were not confirmed in the narrative.