DJI claims Insta360 copied its Osmo Pocket 3, whereas Insta360 claims DJI copied its gimbals.
Digicam corporations DJI and Insta360 are within the midst of a authorized dustup over two competing self-stabilizing cameras: the Osmo Pocket 3 and the not too long ago launched Insta360 Luna Ultra. DJI kicked issues off by suing Insta360 on June 11 for violating two design patents and 4 utility patents to create the Luna Extremely, according to PetaPixel. Insta360 recently countered with its own lawsuits, alleging DJI has violated 5 of its personal gimbal and stabilization patents.
In a single lawsuit, DJI claims that the essential design of the Luna Extremely violates Osmo Pocket patents overlaying issues just like the digicam’s handheld physique, the neck connecting the physique to the gimbal arm, its scroll wheel and document button and its rotating show. In a separate lawsuit centered on utility patents, the corporate additionally says Insta360 violated patents centered on the monitoring expertise of its gimbal. Based on PetaPixel, DJI is in search of a everlasting injunction that might stop Insta360 from promoting the Luna Extremely, together with damages “a minimum of an affordable royalty,” revenue disgorgement (a handing over of what Insta360 has made on the Luna Extremely to this point) and additional enhanced damages since Insta360 might have willfully infringed on DJI’s patents.
Insta360’s countersuits declare that DJI is the one whose merchandise really violate patents. Based on the corporate, DJI infringed on Insta360 patents “referring to gimbal stabilization, gimbal directional management, digicam clean stabilization, telemetry overlay and panoramic video stabilization.” All these applied sciences seem in DJI’s Osmo Pocket sequence, together with its Ronin merchandise, Osmo Cell lineup and the Osmo 360. As an additional protection, the corporate’s press launch additionally notes that the core applied sciences within the Luna Extremely may be traced again to the corporate’s earlier merchandise, like its Hyperlink Collection webcams and Move Collection gimbals.
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The stakes on this authorized struggle are a bit completely different for DJI than they’re for Insta360. DJI’s potential to truly promote its present competitor to the Luna Extremely — the Osmo Pocket 4 the corporate launched in April — is restricted. In December 2025, the Federal Communications Fee added DJI to its “Covered List,” which prevents the corporate from promoting new foreign-made drones and cameras within the US. DJI seems to be getting round this ban by selling its cameras under a new brand referred to as “Xtra,” however successful a everlasting injunction towards Insta360 would formally put the businesses on extra equal footing.
