Defendant
2 cases as defendant.
Tefincom S.A. d/b/a NordVPN is the Panama-incorporated operating entity behind NordVPN, the consumer virtual private network service. It is registered in Panama City (50th Street, Global Plaza Tower) and is part of the privately held Nord Security group, which is headquartered in Vilnius, Lithuania and was founded in 2012 by Tomas Okmanas and Eimantas Sabaliauskas. Nord Security is not publicly traded; it raised outside capital for the first time in 2022 ($100M at a $1.6B valuation, led by Novator) and again in September 2023 ($100M at a $3B valuation, led by Warburg Pincus). Employee counts reported for the group cluster around 1,000–2,000. Nord Security does not publicly disclose consolidated revenue, and no verified figure is available here.
The group sells subscription privacy and security software. NordVPN provides encrypted VPN tunneling via OpenVPN, IKEv2/IPsec, and its proprietary WireGuard-based NordLynx protocol, plus features such as SmartPlay, Double VPN, Onion Over VPN, P2P-optimized servers, and apps for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS, and Android TV. Other group products include NordPass (password manager), NordLocker (encrypted storage), and NordLayer (business/SMB network security). Nord Security merged with competitor Surfshark in 2022. Reports put NordVPN's user base above 15 million.
Litigation posture: NordVPN is an operating company defending against patent assertions, not a patent owner filing suits. In the tracked data it appears once, solely as a defendant (0 plaintiff cases, 1 defendant case) — the profile of a practicing company being attacked rather than an NPE asserting an acquired portfolio.
Notable case: Luminati Networks Ltd. (now Bright Data Ltd.) v. Tefincom S.A. d/b/a NordVPN, No. 2:19-cv-00414-JRG (E.D. Tex., Marshall Division), filed December 31, 2019 before Judge Rodney Gilstrap. Plaintiff Bright Data is itself an operating residential-proxy provider (corporate parent IPPN Group Ltd.), so this was competitor-versus-competitor patent litigation over proxy/data-communication technology, asserting U.S. Patent No. 10,469,614 ("System and Method for Improving Communications by Using Intermediate Nodes") and part of the same patent family asserted in parallel E.D. Tex. suits against Teso LT/Code200/Metacluster/Oxysales (Oxylabs) and BI Science. The Marshall venue is a historically plaintiff-friendly patent forum. Court filings indicate the case remained pending after mediation in January 2021 and January 2022 concluded without resolution; no merits determination is asserted here.
Action in E.D. Tex. asserting U.S. 10,469,614 and U.S. 10,257,319, 10,484,510, and 10,484,511 against Tefincom d/b/a NordVPN; the '968 patent was later added by amended complaint. The case was stayed and administratively closed on September 6, 2022 pending finality in Bright Data v. Teso, No. 2:19-cv-395.
Patent infringement suit filed by Luminati Networks Ltd. against Tefincom S.A. d/b/a NordVPN in E.D. Tex. Filed December 31, 2019, and the '968 patent was added via amended complaint on November 12, 2020. The docket indicates the case is closed with a final civil docket dated September 7, 2022; the terminating instrument was not confirmed.