Context: Skysong Innovations, the patent-licensing arm of Arizona State University, has been suing Fortinet and CrowdStrike in separate Texas federal courts since January 2025 over a family of patents covering machine-learning predictions of which software vulnerabilities hackers are likely to exploit. Those cases, which involve U.S. Patent No. 11,892,897 (“Systems and methods for predicting which software vulnerabilities will be exploited by malicious hackers to prioritize for patching”) among others, have both been through claim construction and are heading toward trial.
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Court and counsel
UPC
Court: UPC, The Hague Local Division, Judges Edger Brinkman, Rute Lopes, and Robert van Peursem.
Counsel for Skysong Innovations: Hoffmann Eitle Patent- und Rechtsanwälte PartmbB’s Dr. Thomas Gniadek, Fabian Saupe, David Sproston and Dr. William Liu.
U.S.
Court: United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, District Judge Rodney Gilstrap.
Counsel for Skysong Innovations: Cahill Gordon & Reindel’s Alfonso Garcia Chan (attorney in charge), Christopher Campbell, Britton F. Davis, Matthew David Wood, Colleen Tracy James, Halima Shukri Ndai, Katherine Vessels, Kevin Kane, Lindsey Michelle Gellar, Margaret Barone, Rahul Sarkar, Samantha P. Carswell, Yushan Luo and John David Roehrick; together with Jay P. Kesan and Cecil E. Key of Key Kesan Dallmann PLLC; and local counsel Mark Douglas Siegmund and Gregory Phillip Love of Cherry Johnson Siegmund James.
Counsel for Fortinet: Debevoise & Plimpton’s John M. Neukom (lead attorney), Daniel Silverman, Lana Robins, Lindsay Cooper Hayman and Linh K. Tang, together with Gish PLLC’s Andrew Dale Gish, Ryan Iwahashi, Josef Bryks Schenker and Christopher Gerson; ArentFox Schiff’s Jacob K. Danziger; Walter IP Law’s Andrew B. Walter; and local counsel Melissa Richards Smith and James Travis Underwood of Gillam & Smith LLP.