Nearmap US, Inc.

Company overview. Nearmap US, Inc. is the North American subsidiary of Nearmap, an aerial-imagery and location-intelligence company founded in 2007 in Perth, Australia, with global headquarters in Sydney. The U.S. entity was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in the Salt Lake City, Utah, area (South Jordan, later Lehi). Nearmap Ltd was listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX: NEA) until private-equity firm Thoma Bravo took it private in December 2022 in an all-cash deal valued at roughly A$1.06 billion (~US$730 million); the group is now a private portfolio company of Thoma Bravo. Public estimates place global headcount in the low hundreds; the U.S. arm is commonly listed at roughly 51–200 employees, but exact figures are not publicly verified.

Products / services / operations. Nearmap is an operating company that captures, processes, and sells current, high-resolution aerial imagery as a subscription service. It flies small aircraft fitted with its proprietary HyperCamera systems over major urban areas in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, producing frequently refreshed vertical and oblique imagery at sub-3-inch ground resolution covering over 80% of the U.S. population. Offerings include the MapBrowser cloud platform, city-scale 3D datasets, AI-derived analytics, offline imagery copies, and integrations such as Nearmap on OpenSolar for solar design. Customers include insurers, roofing and solar contractors, construction firms, utilities, and government agencies.

Patent-litigation posture. Nearmap US is an operating company in a two-way dispute with a competitor, not a patent-assertion entity. Of its two tracked matters, it appears once as defendant — Eagle View Technologies, Inc. et al. v. Nearmap US, Inc. (D. Utah, filed May 4, 2021) — and once as plaintiff in a PTAB inter partes review petition it filed against Eagle View's patents. Venue was the District of Utah, where Nearmap is headquartered, not a plaintiff-friendly patent forum such as the Eastern District of Texas.

Notable cases / context. The dispute centers on eight Eagle View/Pictometry patents covering automated roof measurement, oblique-imagery capture, and 3D reconstruction, with Nearmap's MapBrowser and OpenSolar products accused of infringement. Nearmap filed multiple IPR challenges; the PTAB denied institution on at least two (including U.S. Patent No. 10,671,648), and the Federal Circuit ruled on a related appeal in February 2026. The district court case was stayed in August 2025 pending USPTO and Federal Circuit proceedings, and the parties announced a confidential settlement in May 2026.