Defendant

EVault, Inc.

2 cases as defendant.

Company profile

EVault, Inc. is a company specializing in data backup, recovery, and business continuity solutions, founded in 1997. Initially based in Emeryville, California, it was acquired by Seagate Technology in 2007 for $185 million. In December 2015, Carbonite, Inc. acquired EVault from Seagate for $14 million, integrating its operations and product lines. Following this acquisition, EVault became a brand or business unit headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, and continued to operate under Carbonite. Carbonite itself was later acquired by OpenText in 2019, making EVault ultimately a part of OpenText. In 2006, EVault had over 250 employees and served more than 8,500 customers.

EVault provides a range of on-premises, cloud-based, and hybrid data protection and recovery services for mid-market customers, particularly in regulated industries like financial services, healthcare, and government. Its offerings included EVault Cloud Backup and Recovery (software and appliance-based), EVault Cloud Resiliency Services for disaster recovery, and EVault SaaS for cloud-based backup. The technology platform features disk-to-disk architecture, data deduplication, compression, and encryption, supporting various operating systems and applications.

In terms of patent litigation, EVault, Inc. operates as a defendant, having been involved in two tracked cases as a defendant and zero as a plaintiff. This posture indicates that EVault is an operating company defending against patent infringement assertions. Both tracked cases occurred in 2017, taking place in the Eastern District of Texas and the District of Massachusetts. The Eastern District of Texas is a venue often favored by patent plaintiffs.

The notable cases against EVault, Inc. are Realtime Data, LLC v. Carbonite, Inc. et al., filed in 2017. As EVault was a subsidiary of Carbonite at the time, it was likely included as a defendant in these suits, which were brought by Realtime Data, LLC, a known patent assertion entity. The lawsuits targeted aspects of data compression and transmission technology.

Realtime Data, LLC v. Carbonite, Inc. et al.

Judgment for defendant
Docket:
17-cv-12499
Filed:
2017
Patents:8643513
π Realtime Data, LLCΔ Carbonite, Inc.Δ EVault, Inc.

In October 2022, the court granted Carbonite's motion for entry of judgment. Claims related to a first patent were dismissed as moot (deemed unpatentable by the PTAB). Carbonite was entitled to judgment on the remaining three patents based on collateral estoppel, as they had been deemed invalid under 35 U.S.C. § 101 by the District of Delaware. This case involved four patents related to data compression, but the provided text does not explicitly name US8643513.

Realtime Data, LLC v. Carbonite, Inc. et al.

On appeal
Docket:
17-cv-12499
Filed:
2017
Terminated:
2022-10
Patents:8717203
π Realtime Data, LLCΔ Carbonite, Inc.Δ EVault, Inc.

Realtime Data, LLC sued Carbonite, Inc. and EVault, Inc. for infringing four data compression patents. The court granted judgment based on collateral estoppel, relying on a Delaware decision deeming the patents invalid under § 101. Realtime appealed the decision.