Open Text And Webroot Launch Cybersecurity Litigation

Webroot (as patent holder) and its ultimate corporate parent Open Text (as exclusive licensee) have launched cybersecurity litigation, hitting competitors AO Kaspersky Lab ( 6:22-cv-00243), CrowdStrike ( 6:22-cv-00241), Sophos ( 6:22-cv-00240), and Trend Micro ( 6:22-cv-00242) with separate Western District of Texas complaints. Six Webroot patents are asserted against each defendant, with a seventh in suit against only Sophos. Targeted are various Internet security, malware detection, and/or endpoint protection offerings provided by each of the defendants.

Currently available USPTO records indicate that Webroot holds around 90 US patents, with those appearing in the company's new West Texas complaints apparently the first to be litigated. The six patents (8,418,250; 8,726,389; 9,578,045; 10,257,224; 10,284,591; 10,599,844) asserted against all of the defendants include what Webroot and Open Text characterize as "Advanced Malware Detection Patents" (the '250