Lawsuits	Status	Notes
GoPro vs. Insta360	Closed	Insta360 won at ITC (Feb 2026)
DJI vs. Insta360	Active	Multiple lawsuits filed by DJI
Insta360 vs. DJI	Active	Multiple countersuits filed by Insta360

The action camera world has recently turned into a legal battlefield. At the moment, the major patent battles are:

• GoPro vs. Insta360 (ITC + U.S. federal litigation)
• DJI vs. Insta360 (Shenzhen patent ownership dispute)
• DJI vs. Insta360 (Texas Luna/Osmo Pocket patent infringement lawsuits)
• Insta360 vs. DJI (U.S. countersuits involving five patents)

Here are the latest updates on the major patent lawsuits involving GoPro, Insta360, and DJI:

GoPro vs. Insta360 (ITC Case)

GoPro filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission (Investigation No. 337-TA-1400) accusing Insta360 of infringing multiple patents, including HyperSmooth stabilization technology and the iconic HERO camera design.

Final ruling (February 2026):

• GoPro won on its design patent – the ITC issued a Limited Exclusion Order and Cease & Desist Order against certain older/legacy Insta360 Ace models.
• GoPro lost on all five utility patents covering stabilization, horizon leveling, and distortion correction. These claims were ruled invalid, not infringed, or both.
• Current Insta360 cameras (2025+) are unaffected. Insta360 called it a “complete victory” on the important technical patents.

Update on the GoPro vs. Insta360 lawsuit

DJI vs. Insta360 (China Lawsuit – March 2026)

DJI sued Insta360’s parent company, Arashi Vision, in the Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court. The case involves six patents related to drone flight control, structural design, and image processing.

DJI claims these patents are “service inventions” that rightfully belong to DJI because they were developed by former DJI engineers who joined Insta360 within one year of leaving the company (under Chinese patent law).

Insta360 has strongly denied the claims, stating the innovations were created independently. The case is still ongoing with no major public updates since the initial filings.

DJI vs. Insta360 & Insta360 vs. DJI (U.S. Lawsuits – June 2026)

This is the newest and most active front.

DJI’s lawsuits (filed June 10–11, 2026): DJI filed two complaints in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas against Insta360’s new Luna and Luna Ultra pocket gimbal cameras. The suits allege infringement of:

• 2 design patents (overall look and layout)
• 4 utility patents (gimbal control modes, subject tracking, and on-device display features)

DJI is seeking an injunction to block U.S. sales of the Luna series plus damages.

Insta360’s countersuits (filed June 12, 2026): Insta360 quickly responded with two countersuits asserting five of its own utility patents against DJI. The patents cover gimbal stabilization, directional control, and panoramic video stabilization. The accused products include DJI’s Osmo Pocket series, Ronin/RS gimbals, Osmo Mobile, and Osmo 360.

Insta360 founder JK Liu stated the company will “take decisive action to defend our intellectual property” while emphasizing that the Luna was developed independently since 2020.

DJI has filed a lawsuit against Insta360 over patent violations

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French Touch(y)

La fournée 2026 des lauréats de la French Tech Next40/120 est arrivée et elles sont encore plus de 9 start-ups sur 10 à passer par des emails de géants américains, selon un décompte de Next. Google est le maître incontesté des emails de la FrenchTech avec 68 % de parts de marché.

Depuis 2019, le programme French Tech Next40 et 120 «identifie et accompagne chaque année les scale-up françaises les plus performantes dans leur passage à l’échelle et leur développement international ». Les 40 entreprises à la première place (le classement Next40) incarnent pour leur part « l’avant-garde de la puissance technologique française ».

L’édition 2026 est marquée par l’arrivée de cinq nouvelles startups dans la liste Next40 : AMI Labs (de Yann LeCun avec son WorldModel), Aura Aero, Hublo, Legalplace et Quobly. Les autres start-ups indiquées en jaune dans la liste ci-dessous (Alma, Aqemia, Ekimetrics, Foodles…) étaient déjà dans la FrenchTech 120 l’année dernière, elles sont simplement montées dans le Next40.

Une vingtaine de nouvelles start-ups débarquent dans la FrenchTech120 : Animaj, Bigblue, Crème de la crème, FoodFlow, GitGuardian, Gradium, HomeExchange, Jimmy, Latitude, MyUnisoft, Naboo, Partoo, Scientil Photonics, Shopopop, Spore.Bio, Step Pharma, Stoik, Verley et Yespark.

En chiffres d’affaires, les 12 entreprises cumulent 11,3 milliards d’euros. Hors deeptech (elles représentent tout de même 27 % de l’ensemble des 120 start-ups), la croissance est de 31 % en moyenne sur un an et 45 % des entreprises sont rentables, affirme la French Tech.

Comme lors de l’annonce des lauréats de la French Tech 2030, nous avons regardé quelles étaient les dépendances des 120 start-ups aux géants américains pour la gestion de leurs emails. Nous avons donc interrogé les enregistrements MX des noms de domaine afin de voir vers quel service ils pointaient.

• French Tech : 9 start-ups sur 10 confient leurs emails à Google ou Microsoft

"Battered by years of mass layoffs, California tech workers were hoping the job market would rebound this year," reports the Los Angeles Times. "But things are getting worse." The class divide is widening in Silicon Valley as a tiny group of employees is landing unprecedented packages for AI skills, while many others struggle to find work. The have-nots are doing everything that used to guarantee great jobs — refreshing resumes, optimizing LinkedIn profiles and doing interviews — but companies are much more picky these days. The tech jobless are rethinking their lives. Some are taking pay cuts, others are leaving tech. Some are going back to study or launch startups. Some have retired.... Since 2022, more than 815,500 tech workers have been laid off, according to Layoffs.fyi, a website that tracks job cuts. The tsunami of pink slips surged in 2023, when companies that had gone on hiring sprees during the COVID-19 pandemic began to cut back. From January to April, U.S. tech employers announced 85,411 job cuts this year, up 33% from the same period last year, according to global outplacement and executive coaching firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. The Public Policy Institute of California estimates that the number of information jobs — which includes jobs in hard-hit Hollywood as well as tech — tumbled 17% between the middle of 2022 and this February. The San Francisco Bay Area has been hardest hit, the institute said in a recent report, with the number of jobs declining by 0.4%, compared with 7.5% growth over a similar time span before COVID-19 slammed into the U.S. economy. Tech layoffs are also spilling over into other industries. Automaker General Motors laid off roughly 600 workers in its information technology department, and Walmart is reportedly laying off or relocating roughly 1,000 workers in its technology and products teams. Recruiters say companies have become much more selective, requiring AI skills, combining different positions and interviewing more people for each job. "You're seeing elongated hiring cycles," said Robert Lucido, senior director of strategic advisory at Magnit, a California company that helps tech giants and other businesses manage contractors, freelancers and other contingent workers. "There's more opportunity to fill the need that they truly want." Paul Flaharty, district president at staffing firm Robert Half in Los Angeles, said companies are laying off workers, but also creating new roles tied to AI initiatives. "For individuals that are displaced, it's really important that they find ways to upskill themselves so that they can make themselves as attractive as possible for these new jobs that are being created," he said. Kira Martins was already taking on more work in a small team at Snap — the parent company of disappearing messaging app Snapchat — when she was laid off in April. The company said the layoffs were to cut costs as it focuses on profitability, noting how employees are using AI to "reduce repetitive work, increase velocity, and better support our community, partners, and advertisers...." Martins, a 36-year-old Los Angeles resident, views AI as a tool and is optimistic about finding her next role. People still need to decide how to use AI and check the work it generates, she said. "In tech, you want to be a first adopter, because if you don't move quickly, it's very easy to become irrelevant," she said. "Everyone's kind of hopping on the AI train." A former Google worker (laid off more than a year ago) says he's still job hunting, according to the article, and "he's learned it's not enough to just apply in this competitive market. Workers really need to network and leverage their connections to get seen by hiring managers and stand out." But when 64-year-old product manager Bruce Bowers lost his job at Oracle — along with thousands of others — he just started his retirement early.

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