Salesforce.com, Inc.

Salesforce, Inc. is a publicly traded enterprise software company founded in 1999 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol CRM. Salesforce is a major technology employer with more than 83,000 employees and reported annual revenue of $41.5 billion for its 2026 fiscal year. It is one of the largest enterprise software companies in the world, with a market capitalization of approximately $149 billion as of May 2026.

Salesforce is the global market leader in cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) software. Its primary offering is the "Customer 360" platform, a suite of applications that help companies manage sales, customer service, marketing, and commerce. Key products include Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, and Commerce Cloud. The company has expanded its portfolio through major acquisitions, including the data visualization platform Tableau, the application integration company MuleSoft, and the collaboration platform Slack.

The company's patent litigation history reflects its position as a large operating company. Based on the provided case data, Salesforce has been a defendant in one tracked patent case and has not been a plaintiff. This 0:1 plaintiff-to-defendant ratio shows a defensive posture, where the company is the target of patent assertions rather than an originator of them.

The single tracked case, filed in 2013 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, was Sampo IP, LLC v. Blackboard, Inc. et al. In this suit, Salesforce was one of multiple technology companies sued by Sampo IP, LLC, a subsidiary of Marathon Patent Group, a firm that specializes in patent acquisition and monetization. This litigation history is consistent with that of a major technology company defending itself against suits from non-practicing entities (NPEs).