Even Realities’ corporate parent sued projector giant XGIMI and Kickstarter in Brooklyn federal court over MemoMind One’s look. The crowdfunding campaign was suspended before judgment — and before the money could clear.
On August 24, 2026, Shenzhen Yiwen Tech Limited — the corporate parent behind camera-free smart glasses brand Even Realities — filed a design-patent complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The case is 1:26-cv-05220, assigned to Judge Ann M. Donnelly. Defendants named in the opening complaint include XGIMI Tech Co., Ltd., Hong Kong XGIMI Innovation Technology Company Limited, Shenzhen Qinglai Innovation Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. (the MemoMind operating entity), and Kickstarter, PBC.
Two fresh design patents, three MemoMind frames
Per Chinese XR trade desk VR陀螺’s August 28 reconstruction of the complaint and the public docket, the suit turns on two U.S. design patents granted August 11, 2026: USD 1,140,996 and USD 1,140,997, both titled simply “Smart glasses.” Design patents protect ornamental appearance, not optics stacks or AI models. The claim language is the usual one-liner — the ornamental design for smart glasses as shown and described — so the fight is whether an ordinary observer would find MemoMind’s frames substantially the same as Even’s drawings.
VR陀螺 reports that the complaint maps MemoMind One’s Archive (round) frame to the ’996 patent and the squarer Gotham and Nomad frames to the ’997 patent, with side-by-side claim charts comparing silhouette, lens shape, and temple junctions. Those are allegations in a pleading, not findings. Whether the patents are valid and whether MemoMind infringes them is for the court.
Kickstarter died before the TRO did
The commercial hit landed first. MemoMind One’s Kickstarter campaign — which VR陀螺 says the complaint pegged at more than $1.27 million from over 2,670 backers near the original August 27 close — was suspended after cease-and-desist letters and the filing. Kickstarter’s suspension cancels pledges; backers are not charged. Platform suspension is not a ruling on patent validity.
The docket then moved fast. On August 28, Judge Donnelly ordered Even to show cause why a temporary restraining order against Kickstarter should not be denied as moot once XGIMI told the court the campaign was already suspended. On September 2, Even filed a notice of voluntary dismissal as to Kickstarter and withdrew the TRO/show-cause paper. On September 3 the court vacated that order to show cause. The live case is now the design fight against the XGIMI-linked defendants — still open, still unadjudicated on the merits.
Why this niche cares about “familiar”
Both Even G2 and MemoMind One sell the same sparse product idea: no outward camera, Micro-LED / waveguide text in the lens, all-day wear that tries to read as ordinary eyewear. That is a smaller design space than Ray-Ban Meta’s camera glasses class. At CES 2026, Even had already needled MemoMind in public with a post that its vision was “shaping the category” but looked “quite so… familiar,” according to the same VR陀螺 timeline. The EDNY complaint is that social jab turned into formal design-patent litigation thirteen days after the patents issued.
For the wider AI-glasses market, the procedural lesson is blunt. Crowdfunding is a soft target once a design-patent plaintiff puts Kickstarter in the caption and asks to freeze payouts. MemoMind can still sell outside Kickstarter — Chinese coverage has described alternate delivery plans for early depositors — but the August campaign’s pledged pool is gone under Kickstarter’s irreversible suspension rules. Metaverse Watcher will treat infringement as unresolved until a court says otherwise. The facts that are already hard: patents issued August 11, suit filed August 24, Kickstarter suspended before August 27, Kickstarter dismissed from the case September 2.
Sources: PACER / PacerMonitor docket 1:26-cv-05220 (EDNY); VR陀螺 (Aug. 28, 2026); Even Realities G2 product page. Prior MW coverage: Even G2 at IFA.