Trend Micro, Inc. (USA)

Trend Micro Incorporated is a publicly-traded cybersecurity company co-founded in 1988 by Eva Chen, Steve Chang, and Jenny Chang. Headquartered globally in Tokyo, Japan, with its operational headquarters in Irving, Texas, the company is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TYO: 4704). Trend Micro employs over 7,000 people and reported revenues of approximately $1.8 billion recently.

The company develops and sells cybersecurity software for businesses and governments. Its core offerings provide layered security for data centers, cloud environments, networks, and endpoints. The flagship platform, Trend Vision One, is an enterprise solution for managing cyber risk and providing extended detection and response (XDR) across various IT environments, including Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. Product lines cover cloud security, network security, endpoint protection, and email security.

Based on its litigation history, Trend Micro is an operating company that defends itself against patent infringement allegations. The provided data shows the company as a defendant in one suit and not as a plaintiff, a common posture for technology companies targeted by patent assertion entities. The case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, a common venue for patent litigation.

The company's single tracked case is Intellectual Ventures I LLC v. Trend Micro Incorporated, filed in 2010. Intellectual Ventures, a prominent non-practicing entity (NPE), asserted patents related to filtering data files like email. Trend Micro successfully defended the suit, with the district court ultimately finding the asserted patent claims to be invalid or patent-ineligible. In a notable outcome, the court later ordered Intellectual Ventures to reimburse Trend Micro for a portion of its legal fees, deeming the case "exceptional" due to the plaintiff's litigation conduct.