YesVideo Incorporated

YesVideo, Inc. (YesVideo Incorporated) is a privately held U.S. company founded in 1999 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with a production facility in Norcross, Georgia (earlier listings place operations in San Jose/Campbell, CA). It is not publicly traded. Third-party databases (PitchBook, Crunchbase, Crustdata) put headcount in the roughly 65–75 range and total funding at approximately $36M, raised from investors including Kodak Venture Capital, LSI Logic, ROVI, and later CEO/CTO Michael Chang and Andy Choi; these figures are estimates and unaudited. Its founder was video-compression engineer Sai-Wai Fu. No reliable public revenue figure is available.

Operations. YesVideo digitizes analog consumer media — videotapes (VHS, 8mm, Beta), film reels, photos, slides, negatives, and album pages — returning output on USB, DVD, hard drive, or cloud. It serves consumers through retail drop-off/partner channels (reported to include Costco, Walmart, Sam's Club, CVS, Target, and Bartell Drugs) and sells professional/enterprise digitization to universities, government, media, and legal clients. It also licenses its order-management/ERP and encoding technology stack internationally. Related brands include Legacy Republic and Capture, which now fronts the consumer business. Public patent databases list roughly 16 filed patent family members.

Litigation posture. YesVideo is an operating company, not a patent assertion entity. The tracked data show exactly one case, as plaintiff, and zero as defendant, consistent with a product company enforcing its own portfolio rather than a shell licensor. Stanford's NPE Litigation Database classifies YesVideo as a "Practicing Entity."

Notable case. YesVideo Incorporated v. IMR16 Incorporated (D. Ariz., No. 2:16-cv-00865, filed 2016-03-30), docketed in some records as against iMemories, asserted U.S. Patent 8,867,894 under 35 U.S.C. § 271. This is a competitor dispute between two media-digitization operators; the District of Arizona is the defendant's home venue rather than a plaintiff-friendly forum such as the Eastern District of Texas. No merits determination is asserted here.