“One of them is an injunction: they could say that all these other companies who are using the patented technology have to stop doing so. “The court can issue a number of remedies here,” Duan said. OpenText intends to vigorously enforce its intellectual property rights.”Ĭharles Duan, a postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University and specialist in intellectual property law, described possible outcomes that could range from financial redress to an effective ban on the infringing software should the plaintiff win the case. “These lawsuits allege that defendants infringe and unlawfully compete against aspects of the OpenText family of companies’ endpoint security products and platforms. “OpenText brings these lawsuits to protect its intellectual property investments and to hold these parties accountable for their infringement and unlawful competition,” Bell said. In response to the defendants’ comments, OpenText’s chief communications officer Jennifer Bell said that the lawsuits were being brought to defend the company against unfair and unlawful actions from its competitors. “OpenText intends to vigorously enforce its intellectual property rights.”īut OpenText insists the lawsuits are about protecting intellectual property. The end result is a drag on anyone building technology - but it can be quite lucrative for companies who can play the game well. Made notorious by companies like Intellectual Ventures, “patent trolling” refers to the practice of buying up patents for use in litigation rather than research and development. Responses from Trend Micro COO Kevin Simzer and CrowdStrike’s senior director of corporate communications Kevin Benacci went further: both accused OpenText of “patent trolling” in statements sent to The Verge.
“We invite Webroot and OpenText to join the ranks of serious cybersecurity companies that are trying to solve problems rather than create them.” Sara Eberle, vice president of global public relations at Sophos, was more forthcoming, telling The Verge that the company would fight the lawsuit: “Sophos prefers to compete in the marketplace rather than in the courtroom, but we will vigorously defend ourselves in this litigation,” Eberle said. A Kaspersky spokesperson said that the company is “reviewing the issue” but did not offer any further comment on the case. So far, endpoint security companies have shown fierce opposition to the very idea of the case. “We invite Webroot and OpenText to join the ranks of serious cybersecurity companies”
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