Plaintiff
3 cases as plaintiff.
I'll research YesVideo, Inc. to verify its profile.
YesVideo, Inc. (branded Capture since roughly 2023) is a private, venture-backed media digitization company founded in 1999 by Sai-Wai Fu. It was headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and sources variously cite Santa Clara or Campbell, California, with a production facility in Norcross, Georgia. Ownership is private; no ticker. In 2012, Greystripe founders Michael Chang and Andy Choi invested $5 million and took the CEO and CTO roles. Size figures are inconsistent across sources — Built In lists about 69 employees, while PatSnap cites roughly 250 employees — and no reliable revenue figure is public.
Operations. YesVideo converts analog personal media into digital formats: VHS and other videotapes, 8mm and film reels, photo prints, slides, and photo albums. Outputs include DVD, USB/flash drive, and digital download. Consumer orders are placed through retail partners (Costco, Sam's Club, Walmart, CVS, Bartell Drugs) and direct sites including YesVideo.com and LegacyRepublic.com. The company has stated it has served 7–12 million customers over time and licenses its technology internationally (Canada, Germany, India, Japan, Portugal, Netherlands). It states touchless album scanning among its processing capabilities. The current consumer brand operates as Capture.
Litigation posture. This is an operating company, not an NPE. Across tracked data it appears as plaintiff once and as defendant zero times; Stanford's NPE database classifies it as a "Practicing Entity"/product company asserting its own in-house patent. The single tracked suit is clustered in the plaintiff-friendly Eastern District of Texas.
Notable case. YesVideo, Inc. v. iMemories, Inc. (2:15-cv-00809, E.D. Tex., filed 2015-05-21; closed 2016-03-29) alleged that iMemories' online video editing and distribution services infringed U.S. Patent No. 8,867,894, claiming a priority date of June 16, 2000. YesVideo sought an injunction and damages. The dispute involved competitor allegations tied to iMemories' retail channels (Walgreens, Best Buy, Kodak, The UPS Store), and a related Arizona docket (2:16-cv-00865) appears in court records. YesVideo has claimed roughly 15 patents worldwide; third-party databases report a larger portfolio, which I could not independently confirm.
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YesVideo sued iMemories for patent infringement under 35 U.S.C. § 271 in the Eastern District of Texas. The case closed on 2016-03-29, with the exact disposition not confirmed. The NPE database associates the case with sibling patent US 8,867,894 rather than confirmed US 8,630,529.
YesVideo sued iMemories in E.D. Tex. The May 22, 2015 press release stated the suit asserted U.S. Patent No. 8,667,894, the parent of '755, not '755. It sought an injunction and damages; exact termination/outcome not confirmed.
YesVideo, Inc. filed a follow-on patent infringement suit against IMR16 Incorporated in the District of Arizona as part of the same 2015–2016 enforcement campaign. The patents asserted and final disposition were not confirmed in the narrative.