Defendant
1 case as defendant.
Adobe Inc., formerly known as Adobe Systems Incorporated, is a multinational computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California. Founded in 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschke, the company is publicly traded on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the ticker symbol ADBE. As of 2025, the company had over 31,000 employees and reported revenue of $23.77 billion.
Adobe is a major operating company specializing in software for the creation and publication of a wide range of digital content. Its flagship products are offered through a subscription service called Adobe Creative Cloud and include well-known applications such as Photoshop for image editing, Illustrator for vector graphics, Premiere Pro for video editing, and Acrobat for creating and editing PDF documents. The company's offerings are grouped into categories including Creativity & Design, PDF & E-signatures, and Marketing & Commerce.
The company’s patent litigation posture, based on the provided data, is that of an operating company defending its products and services. The single tracked case shows Adobe as a defendant, a common position for technology companies facing claims from non-practicing entities (NPEs). The case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, a venue historically favored by patent plaintiffs.
The notable tracked case, TQP Development, LLC v. Adobe Systems, Inc., was filed in 2012. The plaintiff, TQP Development, is a patent assertion entity that has filed numerous lawsuits against various companies over patents related to data encryption. This pattern of an NPE asserting a patent portfolio against multiple operating companies is a common feature of the U.S. patent litigation landscape.
The outcome of this case is not publicly detailed but was likely dismissed as part of a broader settlement, a common pattern in TQP's litigation campaign.