I'll research this entity. Note the name appears to be an individual rather than a company, so I'll verify.
Let me verify RanMarine's corporate details and Hardiman's role.
Note on the entity: "Richard Hardiman" is an individual, not a company — the South African-born founder of RanMarine Technology B.V. He appears in the case data as a co-plaintiff alongside his company, so this profile covers both.
Company overview. RanMarine Technology B.V. was incorporated April 12, 2016, and is headquartered at Galileistraat 15, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. It is privately held and grant/venture-backed (investors include Boundary Holding, the European Innovation Council/Horizon 2020, and PortXL). It filed for a Nasdaq listing under the ticker "RAN" (F-1 in 2023; priced 424B4 prospectus in April 2024), but PitchBook records the IPO attempts as cancelled (January 2025 and July 2026); no completed US listing is verifiable. Its 2023 annual report showed €650K in sales (up 50% year over year), a €5.3M net loss, and 32 employees at December 31, 2023; third-party trackers put headcount in the 19–33 range.
Products / operations. RanMarine is an operating cleantech hardware company that designs, manufactures, sells, and leases autonomous surface vessels ("aquatic drones") for waterway cleanup and real-time water-quality monitoring. Platforms include the WasteShark (small ASV), MegaShark (larger ASV launched August 2024), OilShark, TenderShark, DataShark, the SharkPod docking/charging station, and the RanMarine Connect cloud data platform. Customers are ports, marinas, municipalities, and commercial waterway operators. Founder Richard Hardiman (b. 1976) served as CEO from July 2020 until May 2026, when Michael Foss became CEO and Hardiman moved to President; Hardiman remains a board member and holds roughly 26.7% of shares.
Litigation posture. Hardiman/RanMarine has one tracked case — as plaintiff, with zero as defendant — consistent with an operating company rather than an NPE. The case is Eget Liber, Inc. et al. v. Clear Water Systems Limited et al., New York Supreme Court, Onondaga County, filed December 1, 2025, and docketed as "Commercial and Trade – Contract." Despite appearing in a patent-litigation database, this is a commercial contract dispute, not a patent suit. Co-plaintiffs are Eget Liber, Inc., Jason Dean, and RanMarine Technologies BV; defendants are Clear Water Systems Limited and Richard James Boyd.
Context. The parties had collaborated on a Northern Ireland SBRI-funded pilot at Lough Neagh combining Eget Liber's chemical-free algae reactor, RanMarine's vessels, and Clear Water Systems' biotech under a shared £450,000 grant. DAERA records confirm Clear Water Systems terminated its Phase 2 participation in February 2026.