MobileIron, Inc.

Company overview. MobileIron, Inc. is a US enterprise mobility and endpoint security software vendor founded in 2007 and headquartered at 401 East Middlefield Road, Mountain View, California. It incorporated in Delaware and reincorporated under the MobileIron name in 2014, the year it IPO'd on NASDAQ under the ticker MOBL. In September 2020, Ivanti Software, Inc. agreed to acquire MobileIron for approximately $872 million; the deal closed December 1, 2020, and MobileIron now operates as a subsidiary of Ivanti and is no longer separately listed. Company materials from 2018 reported roughly 950 employees and quarterly revenue of about $43.7 million.

Products / operations. MobileIron sold a mobile-centric, zero-trust security platform for managing corporate data on employee- and company-owned devices. Principal offerings included MobileIron Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) for device, app, and content management; MobileIron Access for conditional access and single sign-on to cloud services; MobileIron Threat Defense for on-device threat detection; MobileIron Tunnel for per-app VPN connectivity; and end-user productivity apps including Apps@Work, Docs@Work, Web@Work, and the AppConnect SDK for third-party app containerization. It also acquired incapptic Connect. It is an operating company, not a non-practicing entity.

Patent-litigation posture. The tracked data show one case, in which MobileIron is the plaintiff and never the defendant: MobileIron, Inc. v. BlackBerry Corporation, filed April 27, 2020 in the Northern District of California (Case No. 3:20-cv-02877-JCS). That count understates a two-way dispute, but the direction of the tracked case is consistent with an operating company enforcing patents it developed itself — the Stanford NPE Litigation Database classifies MobileIron as a "product company." Notably, the suit was filed in MobileIron's home district rather than a plaintiff-friendly venue such as the Eastern District of Texas.

Notable case context. MobileIron asserted four of its own patents (the '016, '120, '307, and '598 patents) covering location/time-based app policies, mobile posture-based access control, and MDM protocol extension, while seeking declaratory judgment against ten BlackBerry patents and adding California state-law claims for attempted extortion and unfair competition. BlackBerry responded with motions to dismiss/strike and multiple inter partes review petitions at the PTAB. MobileIron had earlier been a defendant in Good Technology Corp. v. MobileIron (N.D. Cal., 2012), where a jury found no infringement of Good's '016 patent.