Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. v. Security Camera Warehouse, Inc.
- Docket:
- 1:22-cv-01414
- Court:
- D. Del.
Patents:6473527
Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. sued Security Camera Warehouse, Inc. in D. Del.; Stanford NPE Database lists it as a '527 case.
Defendant
Security Camera Warehouse, Inc.
1 case as defendant.
- Cases
- 1
- Active
- 0
- 1 closed
- Filed
- —
- Top venue
- D Del
- 1 case
Company profile
Company overview
Security Camera Warehouse, Inc. ("SCW") is a privately held U.S. company headquartered at 11 Richland St., Asheville, North Carolina. It was founded in 2010 and is led by CEO Matthew Nederlanden. Inc.com lists it at 11–50 employees and as No. 1,376 on its 2018 Inc. 5000 list; third-party estimator Kona Equity puts headcount near 31 and annual revenue near $7.7 million, though those figures are algorithmic estimates and are not company-confirmed. No public ticker or parent company is disclosed; corporate records describe it as standalone.
Products / services
SCW is an operating company, not an NPE. It sells commercial-grade video surveillance and physical-security equipment direct to end users and installers, largely online, and also offers installation services. Offerings include IP/PoE security cameras, pan-tilt-zoom cameras, network video recorders (NVRs), wireless and doorbell cameras, access control systems, alarms, cabling, and related accessories. It markets branded system lines (Admiral, Imperial, and Corporal NVR lines; Sentinel PTZ cameras) and companion mobile apps (SCW Go, SCW Shield), alongside free technical support and extended warranties.
Patent-litigation posture
The tracked data show exactly one case, with SCW as defendant and none as plaintiff — the classic posture of an operating company targeted by a patent assertion entity rather than an active two-way litigant. The sole suit is Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. v. Security Camera Warehouse, Inc., No. 1:22-cv-01414 (D. Del.), filed October 26, 2022 and terminated May 22, 2023 as a dismissal.
Notable cases / context
Cedar Lane Technologies is a Canadian NPE founded around 2019 that asserts acquired patents (including assets originating with Intellectual Ventures), with hundreds of filings concentrated in Texas venues, especially the Western and Eastern Districts, and Delaware; Stanford's NPE Litigation Database classifies it as a non-practicing entity and Unified Patents has described it as an NPE. In the SCW case Cedar Lane asserted three imaging patents — US 6,972,790 and US 8,537,242 ("Host interface for imaging arrays") and US 6,473,527 (analog/digital conversion and JPEG compression interfacing) — reflecting its focus on image-data processing. SCW's case was filed in the District of Delaware rather than a Texas venue.