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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001753926-20-000261
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	8-K
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		1
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20200825
ITEM INFORMATION:		Other Events
FILED AS OF DATE:		20200825
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20200825

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			CLEARONE INC
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000840715
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH APPARATUS [3661]
		IRS NUMBER:				870398877
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			UT
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		8-K
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-33660
		FILM NUMBER:		201132401

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		5225 WILEY POST WAY
		STREET 2:		SUITE 500
		CITY:			SALT LAKE CITY
		STATE:			UT
		ZIP:			84116
		BUSINESS PHONE:		8019757200

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		5225 WILEY POST WAY
		STREET 2:		SUITE 500
		CITY:			SALT LAKE CITY
		STATE:			UT
		ZIP:			84116

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	CLEARONE COMMUNICATIONS INC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	20020204

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	GENTNER COMMUNICATIONS CORP
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19920703

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	GENTNER ELECTRONICS CORP
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19910808
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<p style="margin: 0pt; text-align: center;"><font style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt;">Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): </font><font style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">August </font><font style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">25</font><font style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">, 2020</font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0pt;"><font style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </font><font style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt;">ClearOne, Inc. (the &#8220;Company&#8221;) is filing this Current Report on Form 8-K to provide certain updates to ongoing material legal proceedings (the &#8220;Litigation Updates&#8221;) that have occurred subsequent to the</font><font style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt;"> end of the Company&#8217;s most recently completed</font><font style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt;"> fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2020. The Litigation Updates are being furnished on this Current Report on Form 8-K in lieu of the Company&#8217;s next Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ending September 30, 2020 to provide disclosure of the Litigation Updates under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, concurrently with the disclosure of the Litigation Updates in the Company&#8217;s registration statement on Form S-3 being filed with the </font><font style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt;">Securities and Exchange Commission</font><font style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt;"> on the date hereof.</font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0pt;"><font style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;">Item </font><font style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;">8.01 Other Events.</font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><font style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt;">The Company is involved in litigation again</font><font style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt;">st Shure Incorporated (&#8220;Shure&#8221;) as further described in Part I, Item 3 of the Company&#8217;s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019 (the &#8220;Annual Report&#8221;), which information is </font><font style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt;">incorporated herein by reference.&nbsp; The following recent developments amend and supplement the disclosure of the ongoing litigation proceedings against Shure as follows:</font></p>
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<td style="width: 91.8779%; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; height: 60px;"><font style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 10pt;"><font style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 10pt;"><font style="text-decoration: underline;">Shure, </font><font style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><font style="text-decoration: underline;">Incorporated, et al. v. ClearOne, Inc.,</font> 19-cv-1343 (D. of Delaware). On April 14, 2020, Shure moved for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to prevent the Company from selling the BMA CT and BMA CTH, alleging that these products infringed Shure&#8217;s U.S. Patent D865723 (the &#8220;D&#8217;723 Patent&#8221;). The Company opposed the motions, and on May 1, Magistrate Judge Burke issued a report and recommendation denying Shure&#8217;s request for a temporary restraining order, finding that Shure had failed to show that it would suffer irreparable harm in the absence of injunctive relief and that ClearOne had raised a &#8220;substantial question&#8221; as to the validity of the D&#8217;723 Patent (&#8220;R&amp;R&#8221;).&nbsp; On May 8, Shure filed objections to the R&amp;R with the district court judge, and on May 15, the Company filed a response to Shure&#8217;s objections. Shure&#8217;s objections remain pending.<font style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </font>Shure&#8217;s motion for a preliminary injunction also remains pending, and a hearing on the motion is scheduled for September&nbsp;21.&nbsp; On July 28, the Court held a claim construction hearing on the D&#8217;723 Patent.<font style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </font>On August 24, the parties informed the Court by letter of the PTAB&#8217;s final written decision in IPR2019-00683. In that letter, Shure indicated that it intended to assert &#8220;some or all of the amended new claims . . . once the [PTAB] issues a certificate confirming those claims,&#8221; which is not expected to occur for several months. Shure also informed the Court that it &#8220;does not currently plan to assert original claims 6 and 34 in the present litigation&#8221; and that it &#8220;is currently considering whether it will appeal the [PTAB&#8217;s] decision as to the claims found unpatentable.&#8221; In light of its request for rehearing, the Company requested that the stay remain in place</font> </font></font></td>
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<td style="width: 91.8779%; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><font style="text-decoration: underline;">Shure, Incorporated v. ClearOne. Inc.,</font> PGR2020-00079 (PTAB). In this matter, Shure challenges the patentability of the Company&#8217;s U.S. Patent No. 10,728,653 in a post grant review proceeding before the PTAB. The petition was filed on July 28, 2020, and the Company may file a response within three months. The PTAB will decide whether to grant the petition to institute the proceeding within five months of the petition, and if the PTAB institutes the proceeding, a final determination must be made no more than one year later.</font></td>
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