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6 cases as plaintiff.
Adobe Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBE) is a multinational public software company headquartered in San Jose, California. Founded in December 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschke, the company has grown to more than 31,000 employees worldwide and reported annual revenue of approximately $23.8 billion for its 2025 fiscal year. Adobe is a major developer of software for creating and publishing a wide range of digital content.
Adobe's operations are centered around three main cloud-based subscription platforms. The Adobe Creative Cloud is a suite of applications for graphic design, video editing, and web development, including flagship products like Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, and InDesign. The Adobe Experience Cloud offers products for digital marketing, advertising, analytics, and e-commerce. The Adobe Document Cloud provides services for creating, editing, and signing digital documents, anchored by Adobe Acrobat and the Portable Document Format (PDF).
In patent litigation, Adobe is an operating company that is primarily a defendant. The provided data shows the company as a defendant in all three tracked cases and as a plaintiff in none. This pattern indicates that Adobe is targeted by patent assertion entities rather than initiating patent litigation itself. The cases are filed in the U.S. District Courts for the District of Delaware and the Northern District of California, which are common venues for patent disputes.
The tracked cases against Adobe have been brought by entities that are active patent litigants. The plaintiffs Datonics LLC and Intent IQ, LLC are related advertising technology companies that have filed numerous infringement suits against major technology firms. The plaintiff Datacloud Technologies LLC has been identified by industry sources like Unified Patents and RPX as a non-practicing entity (NPE) associated with the monetization firm IP Investments Group. The patents in these cases appear to relate to digital advertising and cloud infrastructure technologies, which are core to Adobe's Experience Cloud and other web-based services.
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Adobe Inc.'s inter partes review petition concerning US Patent 6,965,920 was terminated due to settlement before institution on October 11, 2023.
Adobe Inc. filed an inter partes review against Realtime Adaptive Streaming LLC. The PTAB instituted review and issued a final written decision on Aug. 17, 2020 holding all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 8,929,442 unpatentable.
Inter partes review of US 7,791,761. Challenged claims 7–11, 13, and 15; instituted September 4, 2019. Final Written Decision on October 8, 2020 held claims 7, 8, 10, 11, and 13 unpatentable, and Adobe did not show claim 15 unpatentable.
Inter partes review of U.S. Patent 8,416,444 B2. Claims 11, 13, 15, 18, 19, 26, and 27 were challenged. The Board determined that Petitioner did not demonstrate by a preponderance of the evidence that the challenged claims are unpatentable.
Adobe Inc. petitioned for inter partes review of claims 28–33 and 36–38 of U.S. Patent 7,729,008. The PTAB instituted review on 2019-08-20 and issued a final written decision finding that petitioner did not prove those claims unpatentable; RAH prevailed.
Adobe Inc. filed an inter partes review challenging claims 32, 33, and 37 of the '897 patent under pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. § 103. The PTAB entered a Final Written Decision on October 8, 2020.