January 20, 2022
U.S. District Judge Liam O'Grady has stepped back from a decade-old suit accusing Cisco and Oracle of infringing a TecSec Inc. data encryption patent after finding out his wife has direct control of her stock holdings in the two tech giants.
February 02, 2021
A Virginia federal judge said Tuesday there was "no sunset" in sight for a drawn-out patent dispute as he considered whether to jettison TecSec's longstanding claim that Cisco Systems Inc. trampled one of its patents on data encryption methods.
June 18, 2019
Adobe Systems Inc. won't have to pay TecSec Inc. $1.75 million for infringing encryption technology patents owned by the data security company, a Virginia federal judge ruled on Tuesday, saying the jury award had been based on a faulty damages model.
December 20, 2018
Adobe Systems Inc. must pay TecSec Inc. $1.75 million for infringing on encryption technology patents owned by the data security company, a Virginia federal jury has decided, closing out an almost nine-year legal battle.
May 07, 2015
A Virginia federal judge on Thursday ruled that Adobe Systems Inc. did not infringe four data encryption patents held by TecSec Inc., saying Adobe's Acrobat software generates encryption dictionaries differently than TecSec's and thus does not infringe.
February 25, 2011
A federal judge in Virginia ruled Friday that IBM Corp. did not infringe six data encryption patents held by TecSec Inc., which was seeking more than $530 million in damages.
February 07, 2011
IBM Corp. has convinced a federal judge to reconsider her previous ruling nixing the company's affirmative defenses in relation to two patents in a suit brought by TecSec Inc. over six patents covering data encryption technology.
January 12, 2011
A federal judge has rejected IBM Corp.'s bid to hold six TecSec Inc. data encryption patents invalid and unenforceable, nixing its affirmative defenses in relation to two patents while allowing invalidity claims regarding four patents to proceed to trial. (Corrects an article published Wednesday.)