Gaea LLC v. Pure Storage, Inc.
active- Docket:
- 6:23-cv-00521
- Filed:
- 2023-07-21
This case is currently active.
Defendant
1 case as defendant.
Pure Storage, Inc. is a public technology company founded in 2009 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California. Traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker PSTG, the company reported revenue of approximately $3.17 billion for the fiscal year ending in January 2025. It has a global workforce of around 6,400 employees. In early 2026, the company announced a rebranding to Everpure, Inc.
Pure Storage is an operating company that develops and sells all-flash data storage hardware and software for enterprise customers. Its main product lines include the FlashArray family for block-oriented storage (used for databases and virtual machines) and the FlashBlade family for unstructured file and object data, often used for analytics and AI workloads. The company also offers its products through subscription services, such as its Evergreen model, and provides cloud-native data management solutions through its Portworx platform.
The company's patent litigation history consists of defending its technology. With zero cases as a plaintiff and one as a defendant in the provided data, Pure Storage appears as a typical operating company targeted by a patent assertion entity. The single tracked case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, a popular venue for patent litigation.
The notable case is Gaea LLC v. Pure Storage, Inc., filed in July 2023. The plaintiff, Gaea LLC, has been identified by industry sources like Unified Patents as a non-practicing entity (NPE). Gaea LLC asserts patents related to data storage and has filed similar lawsuits against other major technology companies.
This case is currently active.