Defendant
2 cases as defendant.
iMemories, Inc. — Scottsdale, Arizona–based consumer media-digitization company, founded 2006 by Mark Rukavina, with headquarters at 9160 E. Del Camino Drive, Scottsdale, AZ. It is privately held and, since July 30, 2025, a subsidiary of Ancestry (itself held by Blackstone and GIC), which acquired iMemories from a private-equity investor group that included Greens Farms Capital, Landon Capital Partners, and Capital Southwest. Third-party databases report employee counts of roughly 50–140 and total funding around $19 million; iMemories has not published confirmed revenue or headcount figures.
Products / services. iMemories operates an operating business, not a licensing vehicle. It digitizes analog home media — 8mm and Super 8 film, VHS and other videotapes, photo prints, slides, and negatives — into digital files, then stores and streams them through the iMemories Cloud and its app on phones, tablets, computers, and smart TVs. Ancillary offerings include AI-based image enhancement ("McKenzie by iMemories"), digital downloads, USB drives, portable hard drives, and DVD/Blu-ray discs, sold per-tape, per-photo, and via subscription tiers (per Preqin's company profile and Ancestry's acquisition press release).
Patent-litigation posture. iMemories is an operating company and a one-time patent defendant, consistent with its tracked record: 0 cases as plaintiff, 1 as defendant. It has not been a patent asserter.
Notable case. The sole tracked matter is YesVideo, Inc. v. iMemories, Inc. (No. 2:15-cv-00809, E.D. Tex., filed May 21, 2015), a patent-infringement suit by rival digitizer YesVideo asserting U.S. Patent No. 8,867,894, a 2014 grant claiming priority to June 2000, covering online video editing and distribution. YesVideo — itself characterized as an operating company (a "product company") in the Stanford NPE database — sought injunctive relief and damages. The case was closed March 29, 2016. The choice of the Eastern District of Texas reflects that venue's popularity for patent plaintiffs at the time; no merits findings are characterized here.
YesVideo sued iMemories for patent infringement under 35 U.S.C. § 271 in the Eastern District of Texas. The case closed on 2016-03-29, with the exact disposition not confirmed. The NPE database associates the case with sibling patent US 8,867,894 rather than confirmed US 8,630,529.
YesVideo sued iMemories in E.D. Tex. The May 22, 2015 press release stated the suit asserted U.S. Patent No. 8,667,894, the parent of '755, not '755. It sought an injunction and damages; exact termination/outcome not confirmed.