Was comparing Eight Sleep and Orion, ended up reading about corporate spies lol
While comparing Eight Sleep vs Orion, I did my typical reddit due diligence. What a weird rollercoaster that’s been lol, I’ve somehow gone down a corporate lawsuit rabbit hole. Writing this because I wish there’d been one post piecing all of this together when I was trying to figure out which company to throw my money at
First I came across a post saying Eight Sleep literally sent spies to Orion’s factory. Something out of a tv show lol. Naturally that sent me even further down the rabbit hole trying to figure out what ended up happening with the actual lawsuit.
In a nutshell, Eight Sleep originally sued Orion over alleged patent infringement, Orion fired back with its own claims (including the spy allegations) and after mediation both sides just recently agreed to settle everything privately and end the case.
Eight Sleep kind of comes off like a bully that picked the fight, only for the whole thing to end quietly once Orion started pushing back. Feels pretty anticlimactic for ES.
Anyways, didn’t expect my smart mattress cover research to have me reading court docs lol
Figured I'd share what I found in case anyone else is comparing the two and ends up wondering what happened with all this.