Plaintiff
4 cases as plaintiff.
Athena Security, LLP is a patent-holding company with no known products or operations. The entity should not be confused with Athena Security, Inc., an active security technology company based in Austin, Texas. Public records for Athena Security, LLP list varying addresses, and no details regarding its formation, ownership, or employee count are publicly available. It is characterized as a non-practicing entity (NPE) by patent industry analysts.
As a non-practicing entity, Athena Security, LLP's activities center on licensing and asserting a portfolio of patents. It does not manufacture products or provide services. The patents it has asserted in litigation relate to networking and security systems technology. For example, in a suit against Google, it asserted U.S. Patent Nos. 8,250,357, 7,969,880, 7,702,742, and 9,503,421, which concern methods used in cloud VPNs, datacenter switches, and security operations systems.
Athena Security, LLP is a patent-assertion entity whose sole tracked activity is litigation. The provided case data shows it has filed four lawsuits as a plaintiff and has never been a defendant. This 4-0 plaintiff-to-defendant ratio is typical of an NPE. The company has filed its lawsuits in plaintiff-friendly jurisdictions: the U.S. District Courts for the Western and Eastern Districts of Texas.
The company has engaged in an assertion campaign targeting major technology companies. According to the provided authoritative case list, Athena Security, LLP has filed patent infringement suits against Amazon.com, Inc., Dell Technologies, Inc., Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company, and Cisco Systems, Inc. A Bloomberg Law report also noted a suit against Google LLC concerning networking and security technology.
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This suit is part of a broader campaign initiated by Athena Security asserting former Fortinet patents. The complaint accuses various Amazon Web Services (AWS) products, including AWS Network Firewall and AWS Security Hub, of infringement.
This case is active and ongoing.
This case is active and ongoing.
Public sources indicate that a suit was filed against Cisco Systems Inc. as part of Athena's broader campaign, but specific docket information was not immediately available in the search results. The case is presumed to be ongoing.