Defendant

Zoho Corporation

1 case as defendant.

Cases
1
Active
1
0 closed
Filed
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Top venue
W.D. Texas
1 case

Company profile

Company overview. Zoho Corporation (formerly AdventNet, Inc., renamed in 2009) is a privately held Indian multinational software company founded in 1996 by Sridhar Vembu and Tony Thomas. It is headquartered in Chennai, India, with its U.S. headquarters in the Austin, Texas area (Del Valle) and offices in 80+ countries. The company is bootstrapped and private; it reported revenue of roughly ₹8,703 crore (about US$1.1 billion) in FY23 and approximately 19,000 employees as of its 2026 30th-anniversary disclosures, with over one million paying customers and 150 million users.

Products / services. Zoho develops cloud-based business software for SMB and enterprise customers. Its Zoho One platform bundles 50+ applications spanning CRM, email and office productivity (Zoho Mail, Zoho Writer/Sheet/Show), project management, help desk (Zoho Desk), HR and finance tools, BI/analytics, low-code development, and email-marketing software (Zoho Campaigns). The company also runs its own data centers in 18 global locations.

Patent-litigation posture. Zoho is an operating company: in the tracked case data it appears once, purely as a defendant (1 case, 0 as plaintiff), consistent with a product company defending against an infringement suit rather than an assertion entity. The single tracked matter is Peter Henrik Pedersen v. Zoho Corporation, filed in the Western District of Texas (originally the Waco Division, before Judge Albright) in April 2022 and later transferred to Austin — a venue known for heavy patent litigation.

Notable cases and context. Plaintiff Peter Henrik Pedersen, an individual inventor believed to be associated with AiPi Solutions, accused Zoho's email-marketing software of infringing U.S. Patent No. 6,965,920 ("Profile Responsive Electronic Message Management System"). Zoho was part of a broader Pedersen campaign that also targeted Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce, Ziff Davis, Mailgun, Intuit, and others. The court denied Zoho's motion to dismiss in 2023; separately, the PTAB found the '920 patent's challenged claims unpatentable in IPR2023-00029 (May 2024), a decision affirmed by the Federal Circuit in March 2026.