Plaintiff
5 cases as plaintiff.
FireNet Technologies, LLC is a Georgia limited liability company with its principal place of business at The Forum, Suite 140, 3930 E. Jones Bridge Road, Peachtree Corners, GA 30092. It was formed as a patent-holding vehicle affiliated with IP Investments Group LLC (d/b/a IPinvestments Group), an Atlanta-area patent monetization firm founded in 2005 and led by Michael W. McLaughlin. In its court filings FireNet identified a corporate parent, Intelleq Holdings, LLC, and listed Intellectual Ventures affiliates — Invention Investment Fund I, LP, Invention Investment Fund II, LLC, and Intellectual Ventures Assets 54 and 57, LLC — as related entities, reflecting that Intellectual Ventures retained an interest in the asserted portfolio.
Products / services: FireNet has no apparent operating business, products, or employees. It is a non-practicing entity that acquires patents and asserts them. RPX and Unified Patents both characterize it as an NPE/PAE and an IPinvestments Group entity. The portfolio it asserted comprises four patents generally directed to network security — U.S. Patent Nos. 6,317,837 ("Internal Network Node With Dedicated Firewall"), 7,739,302, 8,306,994, and 8,892,600 (all "Network Attached Device With Dedicated Firewall Security") — covering a secondary, device-specific firewall layer behind a perimeter firewall. The patents were acquired from Intellectual Ventures.
Litigation posture: FireNet is a pure plaintiff-side litigant: 5 tracked cases as plaintiff, 0 as defendant. The campaign ran from June 2018 to July 2019 against networking and security vendors, with one case filed in the plaintiff-friendly Eastern District of Texas (Fujitsu, Judge Gilstrap) and the others in N.D. Cal., S.D.N.Y., and N.D. Ga.
Notable cases / context: Filings included FireNet v. KEMP Technologies (S.D.N.Y., June 2018), v. Fujitsu (E.D. Tex., July 2018), v. A10 Networks (N.D. Cal., Oct. 2018), v. Fortinet (N.D. Cal., Feb. 2019), and v. Citrix Systems (N.D. Ga., July 2019); most closed within months. Unified Patents filed IPR2020-00471 against the '600 patent, and the PTAB held all challenged claims unpatentable in March 2021; Unified also ran PATROLL prior-art contests on the '302 patent.
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FireNet Technologies, LLC sued Citrix Systems, Inc. in the Northern District of Georgia. The docket includes Exhibit A – US Pat 6,317,837. The case closed on October 17, 2019 after 98 days in litigation, with specific disposition not confirmed.
FireNet Technologies, LLC sued Fortinet Inc. in the Northern District of California. The AO 120 patent-report filing expressly lists U.S. Patents 6,317,837, 7,739,302, 8,306,994, and 8,892,600. The case closed on August 9, 2019, with specific disposition not confirmed; it was also docketed as 4:19-cv-00798.
FireNet Technologies, LLC sued A10 Networks, Inc. in the Northern District of California. The case was dismissed as settled and closed on January 22, 2019. The narrative does not expressly identify additional patents asserted in this case.
FireNet Technologies, LLC sued Fujitsu Ltd. and Fujitsu America, Inc. in the Eastern District of Texas. The case was stayed for settlement in June 2019 and then dismissed with prejudice by consent order signed September 27, 2019. The narrative does not expressly identify additional patents asserted in this case.
FireNet Technologies, LLC sued KEMP Technologies Inc. in the Southern District of New York. The complaint is confirmed to have asserted the same four-patent family as U.S. Patent 6,317,837, 7,739,302, 8,306,994, and 8,892,600. Final disposition was not confirmed; the case appears in a later IPR record as prior litigation.