Defendant
1 case as defendant.
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Citrix Systems, Inc. ("Citrix") is an American enterprise software company founded April 17, 1989, in Richardson, Texas, by former IBM engineer Ed Iacobucci, and headquartered at 851 West Cypress Creek Road, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It was publicly traded on Nasdaq (CTXS) from 1995 until September 30, 2022, when Vista Equity Partners and Evergreen Coast Capital (an Elliott Investment Management affiliate) took it private in a $16.5 billion deal and merged it with TIBCO Software to form Cloud Software Group, LLC. Citrix now operates as a business unit of that private parent. Reported scale before the take-private: roughly $3.2 billion revenue (2021) and about 9,700 employees (Dec. 2021), with subsequent restructuring layoffs at the parent level.
Operations: Citrix sells enterprise virtualization, application-delivery, and secure-access software. Core lines include Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (CVAD) and Citrix DaaS for centrally hosted Windows apps and virtual desktops; Citrix Workspace; NetScaler (formerly Citrix ADC) application delivery controllers, load balancing, WAF, and SD-WAN; and zero-trust/security products such as Secure Private Access, Enterprise Browser, Endpoint Management, and Citrix Analytics. ShareFile was sold to Progress Software in October 2024, and XenServer was spun out as a separate Cloud Software Group unit.
Patent-litigation posture: Citrix is an operating company, not an assertion entity. In the tracked data it appears once, solely as a defendant (0 plaintiff cases, 1 defendant case). That single matter is FireNet Technologies, LLC v. Citrix Systems, Inc., filed July 12, 2019, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia before Judge Leigh Martin May — not a plaintiff-friendly venue such as the Eastern District of Texas. FireNet Technologies, the plaintiff, is described in patent-reporting databases as a licensing entity, consistent with an NPE asserting an acquired portfolio against an operating vendor; no merits findings are reflected in the data provided.
Context: The suit post-dates Citrix's 2022 privatization and reflects the networking/virtualization technology area (application delivery, secure remote access) that dominates Citrix's patent portfolio and competitive landscape against Microsoft, AWS, and Omnissa/VMware. No other litigation appearances by Citrix are recorded in this dataset.
FireNet Technologies, LLC sued Citrix Systems, Inc. in the Northern District of Georgia. The docket includes Exhibit A – US Pat 6,317,837. The case closed on October 17, 2019 after 98 days in litigation, with specific disposition not confirmed.