Court Lifts Stay in Finjan v. FireEye
Litigation to Proceed Against FireEye on Seven Finjan U.S. Patents
EAST PALO ALTO, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 03/29/17 -- Finjan Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: FNJN), a cybersecurity company, and its subsidiary Finjan, Inc. ("Finjan") announced that on March 28, 2017, the Honorable Saundra Brown Armstrong of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ("the Court") denied FireEye, Inc.'s motion to renew the stay in Finjan, Inc. v. FireEye, Inc. (4:13-cv-03133-SBA, Dkt. 81) and reopened the case.
On July 8, 2013, Finjan asserted that FireEye is infringing seven of its patents, U.S. Patent Nos.: 6,804,780 (the "'780 Patent"), 8,079,086 (the "'086 Patent"), 7,975,305 (the "'305 Patent"), 8,225,408 (the "'408 Patent"), 7,058,822 (the "'822 Patent"), 7,647,633 (the "'633 Patent"), and 6,154,844 (the "'844 Patent"). On October 7, 2013, FireEye moved to stay the litigation pending resolution of proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ("USPTO") and the Court granted FireEye's motion on June 2, 2014 (Dkt. 72). Just yesterday, the Court lifted the stay noting specifically, among other things, that the USPTO confirmed the validity of the '408 Patent and the '633 Patent, denied institution of Inter Partes Review of the '086 Patent, and that 70% of the '305 Patent claims were unchallenged. In a separate Order, the Court set a telephonic Case Management Conference for April 20, 2017.
Finjan has pending lawsuits or appeals against FireEye, Inc., Sophos, Inc., Symantec Corp., Palo Alto Networks, Blue Coat Systems, Inc., ESET and its affiliates and Cisco Systems, 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. All Finjan regulatory filings are filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) website www.sec.gov, and can also be found at ir.finjan.com/all-sec-filings.
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Released March 29, 2017