14 DAY TRIAL // The US District Court of Delaware has issued a verdict in the case between Finjan Inc. and Secure Computing Corporation for several patent infringements. The court also permitted and ruled an injunction against the retail of McAfee-owned products Webwasher and TSP.
The above-mentioned products, according to the District Court, infringed Finjan patent U.S. Nos. 6,092,194 / 6,804,780 / 7,058,822. The court also affirmed the jury’s damages award and ruled negative in Secure Computing's claim that Finjan had infringed some of its own asserted patents as well.
McAfee Webwasher and TSP products are web gateway security products that offer protection to small and medium online companies against blended threats, spyware, and targeted attacks. Finjan has filed a lawsuit against their retail in June 2006, citing patent infringement going back to 1996 for similar "systems and methods for protecting a computer and a network from hostile downloadables and/or malicious code."
At the time of the lawsuit, Finjan was partly owned by Microsoft, which was carrying out at that time a reform in its patent-usage policy.
Gadi Maier, chief executive officer at Finjan said, "It is an important day for Finjan and a great win for Finjan’s web security technology […] We are pleased with the Court’s ruling regarding our ownership rights to this technology, and Finjan will enforce the injunction we obtained."
Mr. Maier had this to say about the recent happenings in cyber crime and the impact the Finjan products could bring to the security environment: "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."