Defendant

Openeye US Inc.

2 cases as defendant.

Cases
2
Active
0
2 closed
Filed
2022
Top venue
D Del
2 cases

Company profile

Company overview. OpenEye (legal entity in the litigation database: Openeye US Inc.) is a US subsidiary of Alarm.com Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALRM). It is headquartered at 23221 E Knox Ave, Liberty Lake, Washington, and was founded in 1999 (CB Insights). Alarm.com acquired 85% of OpenEye's stock on October 21, 2019 for roughly $61.3 million in cash plus holdbacks, with the remaining 15% subject to put/call options. OpenEye does not publish standalone headcount or revenue; Alarm.com characterizes the parent as having over 2,000 employees and more than 900 R&D staff in North America. OpenEye's revenue was described as approximately $40 million for 2020 in Alarm.com's earnings commentary.

Products / services. OpenEye is an operating company selling cloud-managed video surveillance for commercial and enterprise customers — retail, restaurants, schools, and multi-site businesses. Its core offering is OpenEye Web Services (OWS), a cloud video management platform with AI visual search/alerting, server-side analytics, active deterrence cameras, and business-intelligence/loss-prevention tooling (SaleGuard). It also sells cloud cameras, recorders, and related hardware through integrator partners, and reports over one million active video subscriptions. It is not an NPE.

Litigation posture. Across the two tracked entries, OpenEye appears only as a defendant (0 as plaintiff, 2 as defendant), consistent with an operating company defending against third-party assertions. Both cases were filed by Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. in the District of Delaware. Neither involves Texas venues; D. Del. is a common alternative filing venue for patent plaintiffs.

Notable cases. Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. v. Openeye US Inc. (D. Del., filed 2022-11-16; Civil Action 1:22-cv-01505) is the sole tracked matter. Cedar Lane is a Canadian entity widely characterized as a patent assertion entity that acquired portfolios (reportedly including Intellectual Ventures patents) and filed hundreds of suits. The asserted patents — U.S. 6,473,527, 6,972,790, and 8,537,242 — concern analog/digital conversion and JPEG compression and host interfaces for imaging arrays. The same campaign named Xerox and several rental-car companies as co-defendants. No merits determinations are reflected in available sources.