Finjan, a provider of secure web gateway products for the enterprise market, said that the US District Court of Delaware has ruled in favour of it, affirming a jury verdict against Secure Computing, currently owned by McAfee.
The court has issued a permanent injunction against the sale of WebWasher and TSP products for infringement of Finjan’s US patents 6,092,194 / 6,804,780 / 7,058,822.
Finjan filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Secure Computing in 2006, and a federal jury awarded Finjan $9m in damages in march 2008.
The court affirmed the jury’s damages award and determination that the infringement was willful and enhanced the damages’ award for the infringement of Finjan’s patents. The court also agreed with the jury’s determination that Finjan does not infringe any of the patents asserted by Secure Computing.
Gadi Maier, chief executive officer of Finjan, said: “We are pleased with the court’s ruling regarding our ownership rights to this technology and Finjan will enforce the injunction we obtained.
“Cybercrime continues to soar as was evidenced in the recent case of 130 million credit card details being successfully stolen by cyber criminals who designed their attacks to overcome traditional anti-virus protection. Finjan’s real-time web security technology via on-site appliances and cloud-based security is designed specifically to provide real-time protection against these types of advanced web threats and cyber crime techniques.”
