Defendant
1 case as defendant.
Palo Alto Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: PANW; commonly "Palo Alto Networks") is a US cybersecurity vendor founded in March 2005 by Nir Zuk and headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It is a public company; Barron's and Fortune data put market value around $130 billion and fiscal-year 2025 (ended July 31, 2025) revenue at $9.22 billion with net income of about $1.13 billion. Employee counts reported by third-party data providers range from roughly 16,000 to 21,500. It entered the Fortune 500 in 2025.
The company sells network, cloud, and security-operations products to enterprises, service providers, and governments. Major lines include its PA-Series next-generation firewall appliances and VM-Series virtual firewalls (PAN-OS), Prisma cloud security and SASE offerings, Cortex AI-driven detection and response (XSIAM, XDR, Xpanse), and WildFire threat intelligence. It has grown substantially by acquisition, including Cyvera, Demisto, Expanse, and Talon, and announced a proposed $25 billion acquisition of CyberArk in July 2025.
Litigation posture. The tracked database records exactly one case, with Palo Alto Networks as defendant and zero as plaintiff, consistent with an operating company being sued rather than a patent assertion entity. The dispute, Juniper Networks, Inc. v. Palo Alto Networks, Inc. (D. Del., filed December 2011), was a competitor suit, not an NPE assertion: Juniper, which had acquired NetScreen, asserted firewall and network-security patents invented by Zuk and by Yuming Mao, both later associated with Palo Alto Networks. External coverage (Irell & Manella, counsel for Juniper) also describes defensive PTAB inter partes review/reexamination petitions by Palo Alto Networks and a separate Northern California suit it filed on patents purchased from a third party; those do not appear as separate tracked appearances in this database.
Outcome/context. A Delaware jury deadlocked, producing a mistrial. In May 2014 the parties settled, with Palo Alto Networks paying $175 million ($75 million cash plus $100 million in stock and warrants), entering a cross-license, and agreeing to an eight-year mutual covenant not to sue.
The narrative identifies the Juniper v. Palo Alto Networks litigation as a key lead in researching litigation involving US patent 7095716. It states that whether the '716 patent was asserted in this case still needs verification.