Symantec Files Patent Infringement Suit Against Zscaler, Inc.
December 12 2016 - 4:33PM
Business Wire
Company Takes Legal Action to Safeguard
Patented Technologies
Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ:SYMC) today announced that it has
filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Zscaler, Inc. in the
U.S. Federal District Court for the District of Delaware.
The lawsuit asserts that Zscaler products violate seven of
Symantec’s patents across a variety of network security
technologies including web security, data loss prevention, threat
prevention, access control and antivirus techniques. This lawsuit
is based on U.S. Patent Nos. 6,279,113; 7,203,959; 7,246,227;
7,392,543; 7,735,116; 8,181,036; and 8,661,498.
“We have an obligation to our customers and our shareholders to
defend our intellectual property when we believe it has been
infringed, and the lawsuit filed against Zscaler is intended to
stop them from copying our pioneering technologies in network
security,” said Scott Taylor, Symantec’s Executive Vice President,
General Counsel and Secretary. “Since 2004, Symantec has invested
over $10 billion in R&D to provide our customers with
innovative technologies, and much of that investment is protected
by our portfolio of more than 2,000 United States patents. Today’s
action is a necessary step to defend our valuable ideas and assets
that Symantec customers rely on for industry-leading cyber
defense.”
Symantec noted that it is continuing to investigate this matter
and will file further claims if additional infringements are
identified.
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integrated solutions to defend against sophisticated attacks across
endpoints, cloud and infrastructure. Likewise, a global community
of more than 50 million people and families rely on Symantec’s
Norton suite of products for protection at home and across all of
their devices. Symantec operates one of the world’s
largest civilian cyber intelligence networks, allowing it to see
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