Finjan scores more damages from McAfee
INSECURITY FIRM McAfee has been whacked with an extra $13.7 million in damages because one of its acquisitions infringed patents held by Finjan Software, a Delaware judge has decided.
The Court also issued a permanent injunction against the sale of McAfee's WebWasher and TSP Products.
The case dates back to 2006, when Israeli company Finjan accused Secure Computing of infringing patents on blocking malware downloads. In March 2008 a Delaware jury upheld Finjan's complaint and awarded $9 million in damages. McAfee then bought Secure Computing last November.
This week, US District Judge Gregory M Sleet decided that Finjan had suffered "irreparable harm" and upped the damages to $13.7 million, adding that the final figure was still subject to calculation of interest and "further infringing product sales".
McAfee intends to appeal the judgement and says that since the offending products have been redesigned the permanent injunction will have no impact on its products. µ
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For damages that my developer machine has suffered since McAfee has been installed on it? Including the inability to compile within a reasonable amount of time while McAfee agent is running?
These are machines. Stop patenting every stupid little thing in the world. Oh look I employed logic. Patent. I did something logical patent. I thought today. Patent.