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Note 12 - Subsequent Events	6 Months Ended
	Jun. 30, 2019
Notes to Financial Statements
Subsequent Events [Text Block]	12. Subsequent Events On August 5, 2019, the Honorable Edmond E. Chang of the Northern District of Illinois issued a preliminary injunction order in the ongoing litigation in that district between the Company and Shure Incorporated, Case No. 11 -cv- 3087.   In that litigation, ClearOne asserts that Shure’s MXA910 Ceiling Array Microphone, which competes with ClearOne’s beamforming microphone array products, infringes patents related to those products.  The August 5 order held that ClearOne had "met its burden of demonstrating entitlement to the extraordinary relief of a preliminary injunction" on U.S. Patent No. 9,813,806.   The Court held that "Shure is likely infringing the ’806 Patent and has not raised a substantial question of the patent’s validity.”  The injunction order prohibits Shure from “manufacturing, marketing, and selling the MXA910 to be used in its drop-ceiling mounting configuration, including marketing and selling the MXA910 in a way that encourages or allows integrators to install it in a drop-ceiling mounting configuration." .

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