{"id":2562,"date":"2025-07-12T02:01:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T02:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/itc-rules-insta360-infringed-on-gopro-patents\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T02:01:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T02:01:57","slug":"itc-rules-insta360-infringed-on-gopro-patents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/itc-rules-insta360-infringed-on-gopro-patents\/","title":{"rendered":"ITC rules Insta360 infringed on GoPro patents"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The US International Trade Commission has determined that Chinese camera company Insta360 has infringed on at least some of GoPro&rsquo;s patents. Based on a press release from GoPro, the determination specifically found that &ldquo;Insta360 violated federal law by importing and selling in the United States products that infringe GoPro intellectual property.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>GoPro writes that it was &ldquo;pleased&rdquo; the ITC&rsquo;s judge found that Insta360 infringed on &ldquo;a patent covering GoPro&rsquo;s iconic Hero camera design.&rdquo; The company also says that the ITC&rsquo;s judge validated multiple patent claims related to its HyperSmooth video stabilization feature, though the patents notably weren&rsquo;t considered infringed, according to the notice.<\/p>\n<p>When asked to comment on the ITC determination notice, Insta360 didn&rsquo;t portray the ruling as a GoPro victory, though. If anything, the company&rsquo;s statement makes it seem like the opposite. Insta360&rsquo;s press release says that the ITC &ldquo;rejected GoPro&rsquo;s utility patent claims against Insta360.&rdquo; According to the company, the judge determined that utility patents &ldquo;relating to stabilization, horizon leveling, distortion, and aspect ratio conversion are invalid, not infringed, or both.&rdquo; Only GoPro&rsquo;s design patent was infringed and valid, and Insta360 says it&rsquo;s implemented design updates to address it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"caas-da \">\n<div data-wf-benji-page-context='{\"pageUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/cameras\/itc-rules-insta360-infringed-on-gopro-patents-195518334.html\",\"spaceid\":\"1197802876\",\"site\":\"engadget\",\"hashtag\":\"news;cameras;insta360;itc;gopro;gear;business;legalmatters\",\"lmsid\":\"a0V0W00000HOQu8UAH\",\"lpstaid\":\"d0748289-55e1-41af-a8f8-76b2cf02741f\",\"pt\":\"content\",\"pd\":\"non_modal\",\"pct\":\"story\"}' data-wf-benji-wafer-config=\"{}\" data-wf-benji-config='{\"positions\":{\"LREC1-d0748289-55e1-41af-a8f8-76b2cf02741f1752285716215\":{\"id\":\"LREC1-d0748289-55e1-41af-a8f8-76b2cf02741f1752285716215\",\"region\":\"index\",\"size\":[[300,250]],\"kvs\":{\"loc\":\"mid_center\"},\"path\":\"\/22888152279\/us\/eng\/ros\/dt\/us_eng_ros_dt_mid_center\"}}}' id=\"sda-LREC1-d0748289-55e1-41af-a8f8-76b2cf02741f1752285716215\" class=\"wafer-benji caas-sda-benji-ad caas-sda-gam-container caas-sda-gam-container-center\" data-wf-trigger=\"onLoad\" data-wf-margin=\"100 0\">\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<div id=\"LREC1-d0748289-55e1-41af-a8f8-76b2cf02741f1752285716215\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&ldquo;The US International Trade Commission&rsquo;s initial determination affirms what many in our industry already know: the future belongs to innovators, not litigators,&rdquo; Insta360 CEO JK Liu shared in the company&rsquo;s press release. &ldquo;While GoPro sought to block competition by asserting a wide array of patents, the majority of those claims were either found not to be infringed or ruled invalid. That speaks volumes.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>The ITC initially started investigating Insta360 on GoPro&rsquo;s suggestion, <em>Reuters <\/em>reports. The company was specifically seeking &ldquo;exclusion and cease and desist orders that would ban imports of the Insta360 products&rdquo; in the US. Even if the ITC has found ways Insta360 infringes on GoPro&rsquo;s patents, the initial determination doesn&rsquo;t prevent the company from importing and selling its cameras. You&rsquo;re still able to buy Insta360 products in the US.<\/p>\n<p>The ITC is expected to deliver a final determination on November 10, 2025, according to GoPro. If the company seems defensive, there&rsquo;s good reason. Even if GoPro is still the most recognizable name in action cameras, Insta360 offers a far wider, and in some cases, more appealing selection of products. Things would be far simpler for GoPro if its competition wasn&rsquo;t allowed to sell its products in the US.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update, July 11, 6:18PM ET:<\/strong> This story was updated after publishing to clarify which patents were actually infringed and valid.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>ITC rules Insta360 infringed on GoPro patents<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US International Trade Commission has determined that Chinese camera company Insta360 has infringed on at least some of GoPro&rsquo;s patents. Based on a press release from GoPro, the determination specifically found that &ldquo;Insta360 violated federal law by importing and selling in the United States products that infringe GoPro intellectual property.&rdquo; GoPro writes that it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/itc-rules-insta360-infringed-on-gopro-patents\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;ITC rules Insta360 infringed on GoPro patents&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}