Defendant
2 cases as defendant.
Salesforce, Inc., formerly known as Salesforce.com, Inc., is an American cloud-based software company headquartered in San Francisco, California. Founded on March 8, 1999, the company went public in 2004 and is traded on the NYSE under the ticker symbol CRM. As of fiscal year 2026, Salesforce reported annual revenue of approximately $41.5 billion and had 83,334 employees. Its market capitalization was around $186 billion as of March 2026.
Salesforce is a global leader in customer relationship management (CRM) software, delivering its offerings through a software-as-a-service (SaaS) subscription model. The company provides a comprehensive suite of products and services, including Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, and Commerce Cloud. Beyond CRM, Salesforce also offers solutions for analytics (Tableau), collaboration (Slack), artificial intelligence, and application development.
In terms of patent litigation, Salesforce.com exhibits the posture of an operating company defending against assertion suits. The company has been a defendant in all 2 of its tracked cases and has not initiated any suits as a plaintiff. Both tracked cases, Sampo IP, LLC v. Blackboard et al. and Sampo IP LLC v. Salesforce.com, were filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Sampo IP, LLC filed an infringement suit asserting US Patent 8015495 and related patents against Blackboard and Salesforce.com. The outcome of this specific lawsuit is not detailed.
Sampo IP LLC filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Salesforce.com in 2013, alleging infringement of US patent 8015495.