Litigation summary

Litigation Involving U.S. Patent 7,784,058

As of April 26, 2026, U.S. Patent No. 7,784,058, titled "Computing system having user mode critical system elements as shared libraries," is involved in multiple litigation cases. The patent is owned by VirtaMove Corp., a Canadian company formerly known as Appzero Software Corp.

Here is a list of the known litigation involving this patent:

1. VirtaMove Corp. v. Google LLC

• Plaintiff: VirtaMove Corp.
• Defendant: Google LLC
• Jurisdiction: Initially filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, subsequently transferred to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
• Case Number: Not explicitly stated in the provided search results.
• Filing Date: January 31, 2024 (in the Western District of Texas).
• Outcome or Current Status: The case was transferred to the Northern District of California on January 22, 2025. As of December 3, 2025, a motion to dismiss filed by Google was denied in part and granted in part with leave to amend. VirtaMove later filed a notice of voluntary dismissal without prejudice for the '058 patent, mooting parts of Google's motion.

2. VirtaMove Corp. v. Amazon.com Inc., Amazon.com Services LLC, and Amazon Web Services, Inc.

• Plaintiff: VirtaMove, Corp.
• Defendants: Amazon.com, Inc.; Amazon.com Services LLC; Amazon Web Services, Inc.
• Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas.
• Case Number: 7:24-cv-00030. Another case number, 5:25-cv-10579, is also associated with this litigation.
• Filing Date: May 3, 2024.
• Outcome or Current Status: The complaint alleges that Amazon's cloud computing services, specifically its application migration and container orchestration platforms, infringe on the '058 patent. The case is ongoing.

3. Red Hat, Inc. v. VirtaMove, Corp.

• Plaintiff: Red Hat, Inc.
• Defendant: VirtaMove, Corp.
• Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
• Case Number: 5:24-cv-04740-PCP.
• Filing Date: August 2024.
• Outcome or Current Status: Red Hat sought a declaratory judgment that its technology did not infringe on VirtaMove's patents, including the '058 patent. On April 21, 2025, the court granted VirtaMove's motion to dismiss for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, finding that there was no "case" or "controversy" to establish jurisdiction.

4. Litigation Against Other Technology Companies

In 2024, VirtaMove Corp. filed patent infringement lawsuits in Texas against several other major technology companies, citing both U.S. Patent Nos. 7,519,814 and 7,784,058. The defendants in these cases include:

• International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)
• Hewlett Packard Enterprise
• Microsoft Corporation
• Oracle Corporation

Specific case numbers and detailed filing dates for each of these individual lawsuits were not available in the provided search results. These cases are part of VirtaMove's broader campaign to enforce its patents related to containerization technology.