Is Clam affected by this? <https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/12/22985527/webroot-opentext-patent-troll-lawsuit-malware-detection-endpoint-security>
In early March, cybersecurity firm Webroot and its parent company OpenText launched a series of patent litigation containing some eye-opening claims. Filed March 4th in the famously patentholder-friendly Western District of Texas court, the four lawsuits claim that techniques fundamental to modern malware detection are based on patented technology — and that the company's competitors are infringing on intellectual property rights with their implementation of network security software. The defendants named in the suits are a who's who of security companies: CrowdStrike, Kaspersky, Sophos, and Trend Micro are all named. According to OpenText, the companies are using patented technology in their anti-malware applications, specifically in the endpoint security systems that protect specific devices on a network. It's a sweeping lawsuit that puts much of the security industry in immediate danger. And, for critics, it's a bitter reminder of how much damage a patent troll can still do.
Though the lawsuit is being brought in 2022, a judgment would hinge in part on whether the techniques described in the patent were widely known at the time that the patent application was filed. One of the patents at the heart of the suit — US Patent No. 8,418,250, referred to as "the '250 patent" in the lawsuit — was granted in the United States in 2013 but first issued by the British patent office in 2005. Another, US Patent No. 8,726,389 or the '389 patent, was also issued in the UK in 2005 and granted in the US in 2014.
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