In a classic example of David versus Goliath, our patent litigation team recently scored a major victory for Centripetal Networks Inc., a small cybersecurity startup, against Keysight Technologies Inc. and Ixia, on patent infringement for four patents that Centripetal owns.
Centripetal’s innovative patented technologies address the problem of monitoring, generating and analyzing cyber threat intelligence generated from within one’s network, as well as third-party sources, from an immense amount of network data. Its solutions use this cyber threat intelligence in a cutting-edge fashion, making it possible for effective real-time detection of cybersecurity threats. Centripetal alleged that Keysight and Ixia leveraged its intellectual property to gain marketplace advantage to develop their own competing products.
Centripetal filed the case in 2017. In 2018, Centripetal selected us to replace a competing firm due in large part to our recent successes in numerous IP and cybersecurity patent trials. Working closely with Centripetal’s technical leadership, our team helped the company articulate its story and craft a series of persuasive arguments that quickly disintegrated the opposing counsel’s position. We successfully settled the case in the middle of trial.