Finjan Is Cybersecurity’s Top Patent Litigator

By Joseph Marks, Bloomberg BNA

Comb through records of intellectual property disputes in the cybersecurity market and one name comes up again and again.

Finjan Holdings Inc. has sued a who’s-who of cybersecurity companies for patent infringement, including four of the 10 largest pure-play cybersecurity companies in the business. The Silicon Valley-based company, valued at $40.5 million, has open infringement cases against seven other companies, including some of the biggest in the business: Symantec Corp., valued at $12.9 billion, Palo Alto Networks Inc., valued at $11.6 billion, FireEye Inc., valued at $3 billion, and Sophos Group PLC, valued at $1 billion. ...