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Richard James Boyd — Profile
Not a corporate entity. The name in our case data is an individual, Richard James Boyd, tracked in a single matter as a defendant. He is publicly identified as Managing Director of Clear Water Systems Limited, a Northern Ireland–registered private company (Companies House number NI719958, incorporated 14 August 2024, GBP 1 stated share capital, model articles adopted). Press coverage names him with that title; I could not verify his personal age, nationality, or any other directorships from public sources, and no revenue, headcount, or funding figures for Clear Water Systems Limited are publicly reported.
Operations (of his company). Clear Water Systems is an early-stage water-treatment technology developer. Its principal product is the SlipStream processor, an in-line, mobile treatment system intended to disrupt harmful algal blooms (cyanobacteria) and reduce associated toxins in situ in freshwater. The company is running a pilot project funded under a Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) for Northern Ireland's Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA), targeting Lough Neagh. To host and test the SlipStream payload in the field, it ordered HydroSurv's REAV-35 uncrewed surface vessel, a 3.5 m battery-electric platform. That is the full extent of publicly documented operations; no product is described as commercially deployed at scale.
Litigation posture. The tracked case is Eget Liber, Inc. et al. v. Clear Water Systems Limited et al., filed 1 December 2025 in New York Supreme Court, Onondaga County, docketed as Commercial and Trade – Contract, not patent litigation. Boyd appears as a defendant alongside Clear Water Systems. Co-plaintiffs include Eget Liber, Inc., its founder/CEO Jason Dean, Netherlands-based RanMarine Technologies BV, and Richard Hardiman — consistent with a contractual or collaboration dispute over algal-bloom technology rather than a patent assertion. Boyd has zero plaintiff-side cases in our data, so he is not a patent plaintiff.
Venue and context. The matter sits in Onondaga County (Syracuse, New York), where Eget Liber is based, a state commercial docket — not a patent venue such as the Eastern District of Texas. Docket entries through mid-2026 show dispositive and injunctive motion practice, an opposition memorandum with exhibits including Boyd emails and DAERA agreements, and a settlement conference. Nothing in the record establishes NPE or PAE status, and none should be inferred.