Trend Micro Incorporated

Trend Micro Incorporated is a Japanese-American multinational cybersecurity software company with global headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, and operational headquarters in Irving, Texas. Founded in 1988 by Steve Chang, Jenny Chang, and Eva Chen, the company is publicly traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TYO: 4704). Trend Micro employs over 7,000 people and reported revenue of approximately ¥223.8 billion in 2022.

Trend Micro develops and sells enterprise and consumer cybersecurity software. Its products provide protection for servers, cloud computing environments, networks, and endpoints. Major offerings include the Trend Vision One platform, which delivers a range of threat defense techniques and extended detection and response (XDR) capabilities. The company provides security solutions optimized for platforms such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. For consumers, it offers antivirus software, mobile security, VPN services, and identity theft protection.

As a large operating company, Trend Micro's patent litigation posture is that of a defendant. The company has been tracked in one case as a defendant and none as a plaintiff. This is consistent with its position as a major technology provider that must defend against patent assertions. The single tracked case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, a common venue for patent litigation.

The notable case tracked is Intellectual Ventures I LLC v. Trend Micro Incorporated, filed in 2010. Intellectual Ventures, a prominent non-practicing entity (NPE), alleged infringement of patents related to email filtering and security. Trend Micro defended itself, and in 2015, the U.S. District Court of Delaware invalidated the two patents asserted against the company, ruling they were too abstract to be patent-eligible. This decision, which negated a trial, was later affirmed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in 2016.