Datacloud Technologies LLC v. Salesforce, Inc.
Pending- Docket:
- 2:25-cv-00684
- Filed:
- 2025-12-19
Patents:7246351
Infringement suit filed by Datacloud Technologies LLC against Salesforce, Inc. The case is currently pending.
Defendant
Salesforce, Inc.
1 case as defendant.
Company profile
Salesforce, Inc. (NYSE: CRM) is a global, publicly-traded software company founded in 1999 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company is a major provider of cloud-based business software. For the fiscal year ending in January 2026, Salesforce reported revenue of approximately $41.5 billion and had 83,334 employees. The company's initial public offering was in 2004.
Salesforce is known for its suite of customer relationship management (CRM) applications, delivered via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model. Its core product lines, often referred to as "Clouds," include Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, and Commerce Cloud. These platforms provide tools for sales force automation, customer service and support, marketing automation, and e-commerce. The company also offers a data analytics platform through its acquisition of Tableau, and a collaboration platform through its acquisition of Slack. More recently, Salesforce has introduced artificial intelligence capabilities, such as its Agentforce platform for creating AI agents.
The provided data indicates Salesforce’s role in patent litigation is that of an operating company defending its technology. With one tracked case as a defendant and zero as a plaintiff, the company fits the profile of a technology firm being targeted by a patent-assertion entity. The case, Datacloud Technologies LLC v. Salesforce, Inc., was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, a venue known for patent litigation.
The plaintiff in Salesforce's tracked case, Datacloud Technologies LLC, is a non-practicing entity (NPE), also known as a patent assertion entity. This entity holds a portfolio of patents related to cloud computing and network security and has filed infringement lawsuits against numerous technology companies. Unified Patents, a database specializing in tracking NPEs, identifies Datacloud Technologies as an NPE associated with IP Investments Group that has asserted its patents in over 15 litigations. The case against Salesforce is consistent with this pattern of an NPE asserting patents against a large operating company.