Finjan LLC v. Palo Alto Networks, Inc.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

FINJAN, LLC,

Case No. 14-cv-04908-RS Plaintiff, 11 v. ORDER CONSTRUING CLAIMS

PALO ALTO NETWORKS, INC.,

13 Defendant.

15 I. INTRODUCTION Plaintiff Finjan, LLC, holds patents that generally relate to protecting computers and/or mobile devices from malicious software (or “malware”), such as viruses, worms, and “Trojans,” particularly in the context of the development in the mid-1990s of “mobile code.” Before then, computer viruses typically spread by infected floppy disks or other removable media. As usage of the internet was becoming more widespread, Sun Microsystems released the Java programming language, which gave developers the means to build platform-independent applications that could run on any computer or device, regardless of the underlying operating system or hardware architecture. Java’s ability to run code on a remote system—“mobile code”—however, also facilitated the spread of malware. Finjan’s…