Google sued in Unified Patent Court by NPE Eyesmatch

Context: Non-practising entity (NPE) Eyesmatch has been actively enforcing its portfolio of augmented reality experience-related patents against several Big Tech companies in a number of different jurisdictions across the world. It has heavily leveraged the Unified Patent Court (UPC) as part of its strategy, suing Samsung and Google over EP2936439 (“Method of capturing and displaying appearances”) there last year, while it more recently enforced the same patent against both NVIDIA and Apple in the UPC in December (January 20, 2026 ip fray article).

What’s new: Eyesmatch has now sued Google in the UPC’s Mannheim LD over the alleged infringement of EP4184443 (“Devices, systems and methods of capturing and displaying appearances”), ip fray can reveal. The action targets several of Google’s computing devices, including the Google Pixel 10 Pro, Google Pixel Pro XL, and Google Pixel Pro Fold smartphones, as well as the Google Pixel tablets. These mobile devices are equipped with pre-installed image processing software or applications such as the camera app and the Google Meet app, according to Eyesmatch.

Direct impact and wider ramifications: The technology at the core of its most recent complaint against Google is closely related to that of its suits against the other defendants. Eyesmatch settled both its suit against Microsoft and against Samsung with licensing agreements in September and October, respectively.