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3 cases as plaintiff.
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Company overview. Eyetalk365, LLC is a privately held North Carolina limited liability company with a registered address in Cornelius, NC (12213 Potts Plantation Circle). Court filings identify Ross Helfer as its managing member. It has no public ticker and is not a subsidiary of a public company; no verifiable employee count or revenue figure is available.
Products / services. Eyetalk has no products, sales, or operations. It is a non-practicing entity: the Stanford NPE database classifies it as an "acquired patents" asserter, and IP data aggregators list it as an NPE with roughly twenty-plus patent cases. Its portfolio is the "Carter Patent Family" covering video doorbells and IP camera systems — methods for detecting a person at an entrance and streaming video/audio to a smartphone app (e.g., U.S. Patents 7,193,644; 8,139,098; 9,432,638; 9,485,478; 10,097,796; 10,097,797; 10,200,660; 10,523,906; 10,674,120). The patents were acquired from Revolutionary Concepts, Inc. ("REVO"), a Nevada corporation then based in Charlotte, NC. A June 2015 SEC trading suspension in REVO cited questions about REVO's disclosures concerning a $900,000 "in consideration" fee paid by Eyetalk for the license.
Litigation posture. Eyetalk is predominantly a plaintiff-side NPE: 3 of its 5 tracked cases are as plaintiff. The two defendant-side cases are declaratory-judgment/defensive countersuits brought by targets of its campaign (Arlo Technologies in the Southern District of California; SimpliSafe in the District of Massachusetts), not product-liability suits against it. Earlier assertion activity ran through the Western District of North Carolina, District of Delaware, and District of Nevada (e.g., suits against Protect America and Zmodo).
Notable cases. A 2016 Eyetalk suit against SkyBell Technologies settled; SkyBell acquired rights to license/own the Carter family through affiliate SB IP Holdings, LLC, while Eyetalk remained a co-owner/complainant receiving an "operations fee." In 2020–21 Eyetalk joined SB IP and SkyBell in ITC Investigation 337-TA-1242 (against Vivint, SimpliSafe, Arlo) and in SB IP Holdings v. Vivint in the Eastern District of Texas. The ALJ found the asserted claims invalid as anticipated due to an abandoned priority application; the Commission affirmed and terminated the investigation in November 2021, and the Federal Circuit appeal was dismissed in June 2022. In October 2023 an East Texas jury awarded SkyBell $45.4 million against Vivint.
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Appeal from the ITC's affirmance of the ALJ's invalidity determination in Investigation No. 337-TA-1242. The Federal Circuit appeal was dismissed by stipulation on June 27, 2022.
Section 337 investigation involving IP camera systems and video doorbells. Claim 1 of the '120 patent was among the asserted claims; the ALJ granted summary determination that all asserted claims were invalid as anticipated, and the Commission affirmed and terminated the investigation.
District court action asserting the '120 patent against Vivint. The docket shows substantial motion practice including a Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss, improper-venue motion, and invalidity/inequitable-conduct contentions; the case was terminated Aug. 26, 2024.