Reveal Technology sues FarsightVision over FARSIGHT VISION drone mapping software after a SOF Week exhibit in Tampa: complaint allegations

What was filed

The complaint is Document 1, filed October 16, 2026, in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Tampa Division. The case is Reveal Technology, Inc. v. FarsightVision OU, No. 8:26-cv-03152. It runs 24 pages and is dated October 15, 2026. It is signed by Charles A. Wallace of Scale LLP, whose motion to appear pro hac vice was filed the same day; the docket lists an order on that motion on October 22, 2026. The case is assigned to Judge Virginia M. Hernandez Covington, with Magistrate Judge Anthony E. Porcelli. Jurisdiction is pleaded under 28 U.S.C. §§ 1331 and 1338 and 15 U.S.C. § 1121, personal jurisdiction under Florida's long-arm statute and, alternatively, Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 4(k)(2), and venue under 28 U.S.C. § 1391(b) and (c)(3). Reveal demands a jury.

The parties and the marks

The complaint says Reveal Technology, Inc. is a Delaware corporation with a business address in Bozeman, Montana, that has sold FARSIGHT software since at least April 26, 2019. It says FARSIGHT turns surveillance video from drones, aircraft, sensor towers, and wearable sensors into two- and three-dimensional models and maps for military and public-safety users, and that its customers include U.S. Department of Defense units. It alleges ownership of Registration No. 7,965,165 for FARSIGHT in standard characters, Class 9, applied for November 20, 2024 and registered September 30, 2025, and International Registration No. 1832001. USPTO records list No. 7,965,165 as live and owned by Reveal Technology, Inc., a Delaware corporation, in Class 9 for software and apparatus that build 2D maps and 3D models from drone, aircraft, sensor tower, and wearable sensor video, among other goods, with an April 26, 2019 first use date, and list International Registration No. 1832001 as based on it.

It alleges FarsightVision OU is an Estonian company that is the applicant for U.S. Serial No. 99759402 for FARSIGHT VISION and the registrant of farsightvision.com, and, on information and belief, that FarsightVision LLC is a Ukrainian company under common ownership and control with it. It alleges the defendants were founded in November 2023 and that FarsightVision OU filed Serial Nos. 99759402 and 99759396 (FSV) on April 12, 2026. USPTO records list FarsightVision OÜ of Estonia as the applicant for both, and both are under examination after nonfinal Office actions issued September 1, 2026.

What the complaint alleges

It alleges the defendants market software that performs the same functions under FARSIGHT VISION, FSV, FSV Platform, FSV Mapper, and FSV App, and that they exhibited from Booth 5404 at SOF Week 2026 at the Tampa Convention Center from May 18 to 22, 2026, competed as a finalist in a pitch competition there, and solicited business at the AUSA Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. on October 12 to 14, 2026. It alleges actual confusion in late 2025, when a representative of a Marine Corps special operations customer asked a Reveal employee about website and interface changes that were the defendants'. It alleges letters dated May 20 and 22, 2026 went unheeded, and that the USPTO refused the FARSIGHT VISION application, in part, under 15 U.S.C. § 1052(d) because of Reveal's registration. The September 1, 2026 nonfinal Office action in USPTO records refuses registration under Section 2(d) based on Reg. No. 7,965,165 and two other Class 9 registrations for FARSIGHT owned by other companies, Nos. 4,972,313 and 7,525,869. It also requires an amended identification of goods and clarification of the applicant's entity type.

Counts and relief

The counts are infringement under 15 U.S.C. § 1114(1), unfair competition and false designation of origin under 15 U.S.C. § 1125(a)(1)(A), cybersquatting under 15 U.S.C. § 1125(d), and an order under 15 U.S.C. § 1119 directing the USPTO to refuse the FARSIGHT VISION application. The prayer seeks a permanent injunction, including at U.S. trade shows, a compliance report under 15 U.S.C. § 1116(a), destruction under 15 U.S.C. § 1118, transfer of farsightvision.com, actual damages, profits, trebling, and fees under 15 U.S.C. § 1117(a), or statutory damages of $100,000 under 15 U.S.C. § 1117(d) on the cybersquatting count.