Snapaid Ltd.

Snapaid Ltd. is an Israeli company, founded in 2012 by Ishay Sivan, and is headquartered in Ra'anana, Israel. Described as a "deadpooled" company by Tracxn, it no longer actively operates as a product company. There is no publicly available information regarding its current employee count or revenue.

Snapaid Ltd. originally developed a "smart mobile camera app." Its patent portfolio centers on imaging technology, specifically patents related to the "real time assessment of picture quality" and systems for controlling a camera based on processing images captured by other cameras. The company's website indicates an explicit focus on licensing its intellectual property and technology.

Snapaid Ltd. primarily operates as a Non-Practicing Entity (NPE), asserting its patent portfolio. The company has been involved in 4 tracked patent litigation cases. It has initiated one suit as a plaintiff and has been challenged as a defendant in three proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) of the USPTO. This litigation pattern, with a single plaintiff-side district court case and multiple PTAB challenges against its patents, is characteristic of an NPE.

The most notable case is Snapaid Ltd. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. et al., filed on April 10, 2025, in the plaintiff-friendly venue of the Texas Eastern District Court. In this lawsuit, Snapaid Ltd. alleges infringement of eight patents by Samsung's smartphones and tablets concerning "picture quality functionalities," such as Flaw Detection, Shot Suggestions, and Palm Gesture features. Samsung has responded by filing multiple challenges against Snapaid's asserted patents through Post-Grant Reviews (PGRs) and Inter Partes Reviews (IPRs) at the PTAB.