Defendant

Blackbaud, Inc.

1 case as defendant.

Cases
1
Active
1
0 closed
Filed
2022
Top venue
W.D. Texas
1 case

Company profile

Company overview. Blackbaud, Inc. (NASDAQ: BLKB) is a publicly traded software company founded in 1981 by Anthony Bakker and headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina. It went public in July 2004. Per PitchBook and WSJ data cited in 2026, Blackbaud employs roughly 2,800 people and reports trailing-twelve-month revenue of about $1.14 billion. CEO Michael Gianoni leads the company, which operates in the U.S., Australia, Canada, Costa Rica, and the UK.

Products / operations. Blackbaud sells cloud-based and on-premises software for the nonprofit, foundation, K-12, and higher-education "social impact" sectors. Major product lines include Raiser's Edge NXT (fundraising/donor CRM), Financial Edge NXT (nonprofit fund accounting), Blackbaud CRM, Luminate Online and TeamRaiser (digital and event fundraising), eTapestry, Blackbaud Grantmaking, Altru, Tuition Management, Student Information System, Learning Management System, Enrollment Management System, and the YourCause CSRconnect / Impact Edge corporate-responsibility suite. The company also processes integrated payments for donations and tuition.

Patent-litigation posture. Blackbaud is an operating company, not a patent-assertion entity. Its tracked docket shows one case, as defendant (0 as plaintiff): Peter Henrik Pedersen v. Blackbaud, Inc. (6:22-cv-00921), filed September 8, 2022, in the Western District of Texas (Waco) before Judge Alan Albright — a venue widely regarded as plaintiff-friendly for patent cases.

Notable case context. Plaintiff Peter Henrik Pedersen is an individual NPE (classified by Unified Patents as "NPE (Individual)" and believed to be affiliated with AiPi Solutions), asserting U.S. Patent No. 6,965,920 ("Profile Responsive Electronic Message Management System"), which covers electronic message distribution. The same patent was asserted against Salesforce, Intuit, Adobe, Oracle, Zoho, Wix, Monday.com, Zendesk, Constant Contact, and others. In IPR2023-00029, Unified Patents challenged the patent; the PTAB held the challenged claims unpatentable in May 2024, and the Federal Circuit affirmed in March 2026.