Plaintiff
1 case as plaintiff.
E-Vision Optics, LLC is a privately held entity associated with its affiliate, e-Vision Smart Optics, Inc. The parent company was founded in 1999 and is a Delaware-based corporation with administrative and development facilities in Sarasota, Florida. The company's business focuses on research, development, and licensing of intellectual property related to vision technologies. It maintains a 6,500-square-foot facility in Sarasota that includes labs for optics, lithography, a machine shop, and a clean room for assembling optics.
E-Vision Optics develops and licenses technologies related to electronic and smart eyewear rather than manufacturing or selling consumer products directly. The company states it owns or controls a large patent portfolio of over 440 patents worldwide. This intellectual property covers electronic lens designs (diffractive, refractive, and fluidic optics), wireless power and control electronics for integration into optics, and specific applications such as smart contact lenses, intraocular lenses, spectacles, and optics for mobile devices and augmented/virtual reality systems. E-Vision has received grants from entities like NSBRI-NASA to develop electronic focusing optics for use in space travel.
Based on its litigation history, E-Vision Optics acts as a patent assertion entity. It has filed lawsuits as a plaintiff to enforce its patent portfolio and has no recorded instances of being a defendant. The provided database shows one such case initiated by E-Vision Optics as a plaintiff in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. This enforcement-focused model is typical of a non-practicing entity (NPE) that generates revenue primarily through licensing and litigation based on its intellectual property assets.
In October 2023, E-Vision Optics, LLC and its affiliate e-Vision Smart Optics, Inc. filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Luxottica Group S.p.A. and its U.S. affiliates. This case is part of a broader litigation campaign initiated in late 2023 against other major technology and eyewear companies, including Seiko Epson and Lenovo, also filed in the Central District of California. The lawsuits allege that certain smart glasses and other products sold by the defendants infringe on patents owned by the E-Vision group related to electronic eyewear with interchangeable application modules and other integrated electronics. In response to the litigation, Luxottica has challenged the validity of at least two E-Vision patents through inter partes review (IPR) proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
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This is a key case in a broader litigation campaign that prompted an Inter Partes Review (IPR2025-01512) against US 11,971,612 by the defendants. The district court case is likely to be stayed pending the outcome of PTAB proceedings.