Splunk Inc. v. Cribl, Inc.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SPLUNK INC., Plaintiff, No. C 22-07611 WHA

v.

CRIBL, INC. and CLINT SHARP, ORDER RE MOTION TO DISMISS Defendants.

15 16 INTRODUCTION In this intellectual property dispute, alleged infringers move to dismiss patent and copyright claims. For the following reasons, the motion is GRANTED IN PART and DENIED IN PART. STATEMENT Patent and copyright owner Splunk Inc. was founded in 2003 and runs a platform for analyzing large volumes of data. Its flagship product, Splunk Enterprise, “ingests real-time flows of machine data from disparate sources across a distributed environment and indexes that data, regardless of its source or format.” This allows customers to “interact with their data through an interface from which they can generate graphs, reports, alerts, dashboards, and visualizations,” and “monitor and react to their data in real time” (Compl. ¶¶ 1, 17). Splunk…