CORRECTING and REPLACING -- Finjan Files Patent Infringement Complaint Against Check Point USA and Check Point Israel
EAST PALO ALTO, Calif., May 04, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In a release issued under the same headline earlier today by Finjan Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:FNJN), please note that in the second paragraph of the release, the filing date of the case should be May 3, not March 3 as previously stated. The corrected release follows:
Finjan Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:FNJN), a cybersecurity company today announced that – after numerous unsuccessful attempts to engage in productive, quality licensing discussions with Check Point – its subsidiary Finjan, Inc. (“Finjan”) has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Check Point Software Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:CHKP) (“Check Point USA”) and Check Point software Technologies Ltd. (“Check Point Israel”) (collectively, “Check Point”).
The Complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on May 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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Investor Contact:
Vanessa Winter | Director of Investor Relations, Finjan Holdings
Valter Pinto | KCSA Strategic Communications
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Released May 4, 2018