Security Camera Warehouse

Security Camera Warehouse, Inc. (commonly "SCW") is a privately held security-equipment retailer headquartered at 11 Richland St., Asheville, North Carolina. It was founded in 2010 and is led by CEO Matthew Nederlanden; the company describes itself as self-funded with no outside investment capital and no exit strategy. Inc. magazine ranked it No. 1376 on its 2018 Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies and lists company size at 11–50 employees. Third-party data aggregators (Kona Equity) estimate roughly 31 employees and about $7.7 million in annual revenue; these figures are unverified estimates, not company-reported numbers.

Products and operations. SCW is an operating company, not a patent holder or licensor. It sells commercial-grade video surveillance and security equipment directly to customers online, including IP/PoE security cameras, network video recorders (NVRs) and DVRs, cabling and accessories, wireless/doorbell cameras, access-control systems, and alarm systems, along with related technical support and installation services. It markets to both do-it-yourself buyers and commercial/institutional customers.

Patent-litigation posture. SCW appears in the database only as a defendant (0 plaintiff cases, 2 defendant cases) — the profile of an operating company targeted by a non-practicing entity, with no history of asserting patents itself. Both tracked suits were brought by Cedar Lane Technologies Inc., a Canadian entity founded in 2019 that is widely characterized as a patent assertion entity (NPE) and that acquired its patents from Intellectual Ventures and other holders, focusing on image/data-processing technology. Both cases were filed in the District of Delaware — not the Eastern or Western District of Texas venues where many Cedar Lane suits have clustered.

Notable cases. The tracked matters are Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. v. Security Camera Warehouse, Inc. (No. 1:22-cv-01414, D. Del., filed Oct. 26, 2022) and Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. v. Turing Video et al. Cedar Lane's complaint against SCW asserted U.S. Patent 6,972,790 (and, in related filings, 6,473,527), covering image-capture/processing technology. These filings were part of a large late-2022 Cedar Lane wave against camera, imaging, and video-equipment companies. No merits findings are reflected in the available sources.