DJI claims Insta360 copied its Osmo Pocket 3, whereas Insta360 claims DJI copied its gimbals.
Digicam firms DJI and Insta360 are within the midst of a authorized dustup over two competing self-stabilizing cameras: the Osmo Pocket 3 and the just lately launched Insta360 Luna Extremely. DJI kicked issues off by suing Insta360 on June 11 for violating two design patents and 4 utility patents to create the Luna Extremely, in accordance with PetaPixel. Insta360 just lately countered with its personal 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 digital camera’s handheld physique, the neck connecting the physique to the gimbal arm, its scroll wheel and file 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. In accordance with PetaPixel, DJI is looking for a everlasting injunction that might stop Insta360 from promoting the Luna Extremely, together with damages “at least an affordable royalty,” revenue disgorgement (a handing over of what Insta360 has made on the Luna Extremely thus far) and additional enhanced damages since Insta360 could have willfully infringed on DJI’s patents.
Insta360’s countersuits declare that DJI is the one whose merchandise really violate patents. In accordance with the corporate, DJI infringed on Insta360 patents “referring to gimbal stabilization, gimbal directional management, digital camera easy stabilization, telemetry overlay and panoramic video stabilization.” All these applied sciences seem in DJI’s Osmo Pocket collection, 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 Sequence webcams and Circulate Sequence gimbals.
Engadget has contacted each DJI and Insta360 to touch upon their separate lawsuits. We’ll replace this text if we hear again.
The stakes on this authorized combat are a bit completely different for DJI than they’re for Insta360. DJI’s means to truly promote its present competitor to the Luna Extremely — the Osmo Pocket 4 the corporate launched in April — is proscribed. In December 2025, the Federal Communications Fee added DJI to its “Coated Record,” which prevents the corporate from promoting new foreign-made drones and cameras within the US. DJI seems to be getting round this ban by promoting its cameras below a brand new model referred to as “Xtra,” however successful a everlasting injunction in opposition to Insta360 would formally put the businesses on extra equal footing.
