---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000849399-23-000025"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GEN"
cik: "0000849399"
company_name: "Gen Digital Inc."
filed_at: "2023-10-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-10T05:06:25.895278+00:00"
event_type: "litigation"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.8
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Gen Digital hit with ~$481M patent judgment; Columbia Univ. case

## Summary
- Court multiplied jury's $185.1M award by 2.6 (~$481M), plus interest and attorneys' fees.
- Judgment awards ongoing 1% royalty on disputed technology, which Gen Digital says it removed.
- Company disagrees with judgment, believes no infringement, and will appeal.
- Case filed in 2013 by Trustees of Columbia University; jury verdict in May 2022.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000849399-23-000025
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GEN
- cik: 0000849399
- company_name: Gen Digital Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-10-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: litigation
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.8
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/849399/000084939923000025/0000849399-23-000025-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/849399/000084939923000025/gen-20230930.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000849399-23-000025
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000849399-23-000025.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000849399-23-000025.txt

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.