Lashify Says $34 Million Win Didn’t Stop Competitor Infringement

Lashify Inc. told a Texas federal judge Qingdao Lashbeauty Cosmetic Co. is selling infringing DIY artificial eyelash products even after a jury found it was infringing Lasify’s patents and awarded $34 million in damages.

Qingdao Lashbeauty, doing business as Worldbeauty, misrepresented it stopped selling the accused products by continuing to offer them to US customers, Lashify said in a Monday filing submitted to the US District Court for the Western District of Texas. Lashify said Worldbeauty refused to provide financial information for the patent owner to enforce the court’s September 2024 judgment. It asked the court to order Worldbeauty to comply with discovery, pay enhanced damages, and pay attorneys’ fees as monetary sanctions.

“Worldbeauty misled Lashify and the court into thinking it had stopped its infringement, all the while continuing to infringe with the same models in secret and withholding discovery that would have revealed its activities earlier,” Lashify argued.

A jury in August 2024 determined Worldbeauty willfully infringed three Lashify patents and owed $30.5 million in lost profits and $3.6 million as a reasonable royalty, with a royalty rate of 30%.

The following month, Lashify sought an injunction forbidding Worldbeauty from selling 632 competing products. The injunction request is pending, and Lashify argued in Monday’s motion that delay in entering the order is leading other bad actors to “believe they are scot-free to infringing” the patents.

In a separate proceeding, the US International Ttrade Commission denied Lashify’s bid to block Worldbeauty’s imports, but the Fed Circuit remanded the case in March directing the agency to consider sales and marketing activity it had excluded from its analysis of whether there’s a domestic market for Lashify’s products.

Counsel for Worldbeauty didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

Fenwick & West LLP; Calfee, Halter & Griswold LLP; and Dacus Firm PC represent Lashify. Dorsey & Whitney LLP and Scott, Douglass & McConnico LLP represent Worldbeauty.

The case is Lashify Inc. v. Qingdao Lashbeauty Cosmetic Co., W.D. Tex., No. 6:22-cv-00776, notice and motion filed 6/23/25.