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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-22-054938"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GEN"
cik: "0000849399"
company_name: "Gen Digital Inc."
filed_at: "2022-05-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-26T01:46:19.368341+00:00"
event_type: "litigation"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.85
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# NortonLifeLock hit with $185M jury verdict for patent infringement; will appeal, cease using technology

## Summary
- Federal jury awarded Columbia University $185M in damages for willful infringement of two patents (U.S. 8,601,322 and 8,074,115).
- Patents cover SONAR/BASH behavioral protection tech used in Norton Security and Symantec Endpoint Protection products.
- NortonLifeLock will cease use of the infringing technology and intends to appeal the verdict.
- Damages may be enhanced by court; formal judgment not yet entered.
- Jury also found no fraudulent concealment on a third patent but deemed two Columbia professors co-inventors (no damages awarded).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-22-054938
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GEN
- cik: 0000849399
- company_name: Gen Digital Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-05-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: litigation
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.85
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/849399/000110465922054938/0001104659-22-054938-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/849399/000110465922054938/tm2214286d1_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-22-054938.txt

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