Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. v. Wyze Labs
- Docket:
- 1:21-cv-01704
- Court:
- D. Del.
Cedar Lane '790-family case; the '790/'242 image-processing pair accused against camera products (e.g., Wyze Labs).
Defendant
Wyze Labs
1 case as defendant.
- Cases
- 1
- Active
- 0
- 1 closed
- Filed
- —
- Top venue
- D Del
- 1 case
Company profile
Wyze Labs, Inc. (commonly "Wyze") is a privately held consumer electronics company headquartered in Kirkland, Washington, in the Seattle area. It was founded in 2017 by former Amazon employees Yun Zhang, Dave Crosby, Dongsheng Song, and Elana Fishman. Wyze is venture-backed rather than public; it raised about $110 million in 2021 and roughly $145–155 million total from investors including Norwest Venture Partners, iSeed Ventures, American Family Ventures, Marcy Venture Partners, and Amino Capital. Third-party trackers put headcount at roughly 230–250 employees and annual revenue in the low-to-mid hundreds of millions, though the company does not publicly disclose audited revenue, so those figures are estimates only.
Products and operations. Wyze designs and sells low-cost smart home hardware paired with a mobile app and subscription services. Its line began with the Wyze Cam security camera and now spans more than 70 products, including video doorbells, smart locks, thermostats, smart plugs and bulbs, environmental sensors, home monitoring/automation devices, and robot vacuums. It is an operating company with real consumer products, not a shell or patent-holding entity.
Patent-litigation posture. Per the tracked data, Wyze has appeared in exactly one patent suit and only as a defendant (zero plaintiff cases), the profile of an operating company defending against patent assertion rather than a two-way litigant. The single case, Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. v. Wyze Labs, was filed in the District of Delaware — a venue that, along with the Eastern and Western Districts of Texas, is heavily favored by patent plaintiffs.
Case context. Cedar Lane Technologies is widely characterized as a non-practicing entity (NPE/PAE) based in Nelson, British Columbia, incorporated in 2019, which acquired patents originating with Intellectual Ventures and ran a campaign exceeding 150 defendants. Against Wyze it asserted U.S. Patents 6,972,790; 8,165,867; and 8,537,242, covering remote device control and image-array/host-interface imaging technology — consistent with the smart-home and camera features at issue. Cedar Lane voluntarily dismissed the case with prejudice in March 2022. No other tracked litigation involving Wyze is recorded in this dataset.