management tool Panorama, its artificial intelligence security operations platform Cortex, its analysis software MineMeld and its DNS security service. Many of the innovations deal with specific methods for filtering network traffic data and rule-based network threat detection. Centripetal lawyers claim that several rounds of meetings and telephonic conversations were held between executives of both parties in 2016 to consider a threat intelligence partnership wherein Centripetal’s patented technologies were also a matter of discussion. In latest development, lawyers for Palo Alto Networks in their April 30 court filing pleaded for the lawsuit to be dismissed arguing that technologies and processes in question are of broad nature and that Centripetal Networks