Gen Digital Inc.

Gen Digital Inc. (NASDAQ: GEN), commonly "Gen," is a consumer cybersecurity company headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, with co-headquarters in Prague, Czech Republic. It was founded in 1982 as Symantec Corporation, renamed NortonLifeLock in 2019, and took the Gen Digital name in November 2022 after completing the ~$8.1 billion acquisition of Avast (Wikipedia; Gen Digital press). It is publicly traded and independent. Size: roughly 3,400–3,900 full-time employees, FY2025 revenue of about $3.9 billion (TTM ~$5.1 billion following MoneyLion), and a market capitalization in the ~$18 billion range (FT company profile; Fox Business quote page).

Operations. Gen sells subscription consumer security and digital-safety software under brands including Norton, Avast, AVG, Avira, CCleaner, LifeLock, and ReputationDefender, and — since its April 2025 acquisition of MoneyLion — financial wellness products. Revenue is overwhelmingly recurring subscriptions (reported at over 90%), sold direct via e-commerce and through telecom, OEM, and employee-benefit channels, with tens of millions of paid subscribers globally (Gen Digital investor materials; FT/GlobalData profile).

Litigation posture. Gen is an operating company, not a patent assertion entity. Across the tracked data it has exactly one appearance — as plaintiff (petitioner) in a PTAB proceeding — and zero defendant-side entries. That single "plaintiff" case is a defensive invalidity challenge, not part of any assertion campaign.

Notable case. Gen Digital Inc. (f/k/a NortonLifeLock Inc.) v. Kajeet, Inc., IPR2022-00001 (PTAB, filed October 1, 2021; final written decision April 13, 2023), challenging U.S. Patent No. 8,667,559, "Feature management of a communication device." Context: patent owner Kajeet had asserted the same family against NortonLifeLock in the District of Delaware (Kajeet, Inc. v. NortonLifeLock, Inc., No. 1:20-cv-01339-MN) and against Trend Micro in the Western District of Texas (No. 6:21-cv-00389-ADA), so Gen's PTAB filing was a defensive response to being sued (PTAB records; Docket Alarm).