Finjan Files Patent Infringement Complaint Against Check Point USA and Check Point Israel

Finjan Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:FNJN), a global leader in cybersecurity announced that it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Check Point Software Technologies Inc and Check Point software Technologies Ltd.

The company said that it has taken this step after numerous unsuccessful attempts to engage in productive, quality licensing discussions with the Check Point.

As quoted in the text release:

The Complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on March 3, 2018, (Case No. 5:18-cv-02621), alleges that the Check Point products listed below (“ the Accused Products”) infringe at least one or more of the following Finjan patents: U.S. Patent Nos. 6,154,844, 6,965,968, 7,418,731, 7,647,633, 8,079,086, 8,141,154, 8,677,494 (collectively the “Asserted Patents”).

The Accused Products include Check Point’s: Next Generation Firewalls and Security Gateways for Cloud, Data Center, Midsized and Enterprise, Small Business, Consumer, and Home Office; CloudGuard products; Endpoint Protection products; Advanced Threat Prevention products, including with Sandblast technology, for Network Security, Endpoint Protection, and Mobile Threat Prevention; ZoneAlarm products; Threat Intelligence; ThreatCloud; Security Management products, including Smart-1 appliances; and Infinity, including R80.10.

Finjan is seeking a judgment of infringement of the Asserted Patents by the Accused Products, a preliminary and permanent injunction, past damages no less than a reasonable royalty, attorneys’ fees, pre- and post-judgment infringement, and any other relief deemed proper by the Court.

Finjan also has pending infringement lawsuits against Palo Alto Networks, ESET and its affiliates, Cisco Systems, Inc., Sonicwall, Inc., Bitdefender and its affiliates, Juniper Networks and Zscaler, Inc. relating to, collectively, more than 20 patents in the Finjan portfolio. The court dockets for the foregoing cases are publicly available on the Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) website, www.pacer.gov, which is operated by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.

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