EntIT Software LLC

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EntIT Software LLC — Delaware-formed LLC (originally registered 24 March 2017), formerly Hewlett-Packard Software, LLC, and the legal entity behind HPE's software business. Its principal executive office was 4555 Great America Parkway, Suite 400, Santa Clara, California. It was a subsidiary of Seattle SpinCo, Inc., which separated from Hewlett Packard Enterprise and merged into Micro Focus International plc on 1 September 2017. Effective 30 November/2 December 2020 the entity was renamed Micro Focus LLC (state business registries; federal court filings). Micro Focus was acquired by OpenText (NASDAQ/TSX: OTEX) for ~$5.8 billion, closing 31 January 2023 (OpenText press release). Micro Focus reported roughly 11,000 employees and ~$2.7 billion annual revenue near the time of that deal; EntIT-specific headcount or revenue figures are not reported separately.

Products / operations. EntIT was an operating software entity, not a shell. Court filings describe it as developing, marketing and selling enterprise software, specifically the Application Delivery Management (ADM) line — products that were branded HPE and then Micro Focus, including LoadRunner, Performance Center, StormRunner Load, Mobile Center and Network Virtualization. Its documentation also covers Data Center Automation (Micro Focus product manuals carry "© EntIT Software LLC, a Micro Focus company"). It held and received patent assignments from Hewlett-Packard entities, but its business was commercial software licensing and support.

Litigation posture. In the case data it appears once, as a plaintiff in a declaratory-judgment action and never as a defendant of record: Seattle SpinCo, Inc. et al. v. Wapp Tech Limited Partnership, D. Del., filed 15 October 2018 (28 U.S.C. § 2201). This was a defensive DJ suit — EntIT and Seattle SpinCo sought invalidity and non-infringement rulings on the same patents Wapp Tech had asserted against Micro Focus in the Eastern District of Texas (No. 4:18-cv-469). EntIT is thus an operating company responding to patent assertion, not an NPE; the low case count reflects one coordinated dispute rather than a litigation campaign.

Notable context. Wapp Tech, a Texas patent-holding partnership asserting mobile application development and network simulation patents, won a $172,554,269 jury verdict against Micro Focus entities on 5 March 2021; the Texas court declined to enhance damages in April 2021. The Delaware action was stayed pending the Texas case, and the Federal Circuit denied Seattle SpinCo's mandamus petition seeking transfer in June 2020.