Plaintiff
2 cases as plaintiff.
Let me verify the corporate history, since two different companies have used this name.
Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC; NASDAQ: SAIC) is a Reston, Virginia–headquartered government technology services provider. The original SAIC was founded in 1969. Today's company is the entity (formerly SAIC Gemini, Inc.) spun off on September 27, 2013 from the legacy SAIC, Inc., which simultaneously renamed itself Leidos Holdings, Inc. It is publicly traded on NASDAQ and reports roughly 24,000 employees, fiscal 2025 revenue of about $7.48 billion, and a market capitalization near $4.6 billion (late 2025) (SAIC 10-K/8-K; PitchBook; FT).
Operations. SAIC provides technical, engineering, and enterprise IT services, primarily to U.S. government agencies. About 98% of revenue comes from U.S. government prime contracts or subcontracts, split mainly between the Department of Defense and intelligence/other federal agencies. Since February 2024 it reports two segments — Defense and Intelligence, and Civilian — covering systems engineering and integration, mission IT, cybersecurity, cloud, digital engineering, and training/simulation support across roughly 1,700 active contracts. It is an operating services company, not a patent-holding entity.
Litigation posture. The tracked data shows SAIC as plaintiff in two cases and defendant in none. Both — VirnetX Inc. et al. v. Microsoft Corp. and VirnetX Inc. et al. v. Apple Inc. — were filed in the Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division, a plaintiff-friendly venue. In these, SAIC acted as co-plaintiff with VirnetX, which asserted the "secure communications"/agile network protocol patent family (e.g., the '135, '151, '504, '211 patents) invented at SAIC. SAIC was joined largely to satisfy standing and Rule 19 joinder because it retained an equity interest and certain rights in the patents; it did not run an independent assertion campaign.
Name-continuity caveat. The entity named as co-plaintiff in these dockets is the legacy SAIC that became Leidos, Inc. in the 2013 reorganization (confirmed in Federal Circuit filings). The current NASDAQ:SAIC is a separate, later-spun legal entity, so these two plaintiff-side cases do not reflect a patent-assertion program by today's operations.
Sources: SAIC investor filings (10-K, 8-K), PitchBook, Financial Times profile, Federal Circuit certificate of interest (VirnetX/SAIC v. Apple), SEC/E.D. Tex. dockets.
VirnetX and SAIC asserted four patents against Microsoft, including the '211 patent. The court's claim-construction order construed '211 claim terms. The case was resolved by settlement/license; settlement date and amount are not confirmed in the narrative.
VirnetX and SAIC asserted patents against Apple over iPhone 5, iPod touch 5th gen., iPad 4th gen., iPad mini, and then-current Macs. The case was consolidated with 6:11-cv-00563 and later amended to add 8,051,181 and 8,504,697. It produced the 2016 retrial on the '504/'211 patents and the April 2018 trial on the '135/'759/'180/'151 patents; further post-trial/appellate proceedings continued into the 2020s.