Adobe Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBE) — formerly Adobe Systems Incorporated, renamed Adobe Inc. in 2018 — is a publicly traded software company founded in 1982 and headquartered at 345 Park Avenue, San Jose, California. Per its FY2025 Form 10-K (fiscal year ended November 28, 2025), Adobe reported revenue of $23.77 billion and employed 31,360 people. CEO is Shantanu Narayen. No parent company; Adobe is itself the listed parent.
Operations. Adobe reports three segments: Digital Media, Digital Experience, and Publishing and Advertising. Digital Media ($17.65B FY2025 revenue) covers Creative Cloud applications — Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Lightroom — plus Document Cloud products around Acrobat and Acrobat AI Assistant (now bundled as Acrobat Studio). Digital Experience ($5.86B) sells customer-experience and marketing software, including Experience Platform, Analytics, and Commerce. Subscription revenue accounted for roughly 96% of the total.
Patent-litigation posture. Adobe is an operating company, not an assertion entity. In the tracked data it appears only as a defendant (0 plaintiff cases, 1 defendant case), which is consistent with a large technology vendor being a target of patent plaintiffs. The single tracked matter reached the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation through the plaintiff's centralization motion, not through any affirmative case by Adobe.
Notable case and context. The tracked case is Realtime Adaptive Streaming LLC v. Hulu, et al., part of MDL No. 2845, In re: Realtime Adaptive Streaming LLC Patent Litigation. Realtime, a Texas LLC with ties to Realtime Data LLC and no known operations other than patent assertion, sued roughly 100 defendants in 2017–2018, including Adobe Systems Incorporated (D. Mass. No. 1:18-cv-10355 and C.D. Cal. No. 2:18-cv-09344), asserting data-compression patents (e.g., U.S. 7,386,046; 8,934,535; 9,769,477) against Adobe products such as Media Encoder, Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Flash Media Server. The Panel denied centralization on August 1, 2018, citing insufficient commonality.
Sources: Adobe FY2025 10-K and Q4 FY2025 results; JPML MDL No. 2845 order denying transfer; case filings via RPX Insight/Docket Alarm.