Company overview. Micro Focus (US) Inc. is a Delaware-incorporated U.S. operating subsidiary of Micro Focus International plc, the U.K.-headquartered enterprise software group founded in 1976 and long known for COBOL development tools. The U.S. entity carried out Micro Focus's American software business, with U.S. operations associated with Sunnyvale, California (inherited from HPE Software) and Plano, Texas. Micro Focus International was publicly listed (LSE: MCRO; NYSE: MFGP) until OpenText Corporation acquired it on 31 January 2023 in a deal valuing the company at roughly £5.1 billion enterprise value. Micro Focus reported approximately $2.7 billion revenue for the 12 months ended 30 April 2022 and about 14,000 employees in the 2018 reporting period; roughly 9,700 Micro Focus staff joined OpenText.
Products / services. Micro Focus sold enterprise infrastructure software across five portfolios: Application Modernization & Connectivity (Visual COBOL, mainframe and host connectivity), Application Delivery Management (ALM/Quality Center, LoadRunner, Performance Center, Mobile Center), IT Operations Management (NetIQ/Operations Bridge), Security (Fortify, Voltage), and Information Management & Governance (IDOL, Vertica, Archiving/Digital Safe). It sold licenses, maintenance/support, SaaS and consulting to large enterprises. OpenText later moved these products toward cloud under "Titanium X" and sold the AMC business (including legacy Micro Focus AMC assets) to Rocket Software in May 2024, with Micro Focus (US) Inc. acting as a billing entity migrating to Rocket Software, Inc.
Patent-litigation posture. With one tracked case as defendant and none as plaintiff, Micro Focus (US) Inc. is an operating company being sued, not an assertive licensor. The single suit was filed in the plaintiff-friendly Eastern District of Texas (Sherman Division, Judge Mazzant) by Wapp Tech LP and Wapp Tech Corp.
Notable case. Wapp Tech LP et al. v. Micro Focus International PLC et al. (No. 4:18-cv-00469), filed 2 July 2018, accused Micro Focus/HPE-spinoff testing products of infringing mobile application design and testing patents. A March 2021 jury verdict awarded Wapp $172.55 million and found willful infringement; the court declined to enhance damages. The parties settled and the case was dismissed with prejudice in late 2021.