Box, Inc. is a publicly traded company (NYSE: BOX) specializing in cloud content management. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, the company provides a platform primarily for business customers. For the fiscal year ending in January 2024, Box reported revenue of approximately $1.09 billion and had around 2,810 employees.
Box operates an enterprise-focused platform it calls the "Intelligent Content Cloud." This service allows businesses to securely store, share, and collaborate on digital files. Key product offerings include workflow automation (Box Relay), native e-signatures (Box Sign), virtual whiteboarding (Box Canvas), and security and compliance features like Box Shield and Box Governance. The platform integrates with over 1,500 third-party applications and increasingly incorporates artificial intelligence to automate processes and generate insights from content.
As a patent litigant, Box, Inc. is an operating company that defends itself against infringement suits. The company's record in the provided database shows it as a defendant in one case and as a plaintiff in none. This defensive posture is typical for technology companies that are targeted by patent assertion entities.
The single tracked case is EXPRESS MOBILE, INC. v. Box, Inc., filed in the Delaware District Court in 2017. The plaintiff, Express Mobile, Inc., is a patent assertion entity that has also sued other technology companies, including GoDaddy and Shopify, over patents related to web development technology.