On Tuesday, December 3, in response to a motion to dismiss filed by Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, NSS Labs called off an antitrust action against cybersecurity standards development group Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization (AMTSO) and members Symantec and ESET. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati represented Symantec in the matter.

Late in 2018, NSS Labs sued AMTSO and the cybersecurity vendors, claiming they and others conspired to boycott the lab because of its testing policies and approach. Symantec moved to dismiss the complaint for failure to state a legal claim, and the court granted the motion in August 2019. In October 2019, the lab filed an amended complaint and Symantec and the other defendants moved to dismiss in November. NSS dismissed the case the day before its response would have been due.

The case is NSS Labs Inc. v. Crowdstrike Inc. et al., in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

The Wilson Sonsini team representing Symantec includes Jonathan Jacobson, Wendy Waszmer, Daniel Weick, and Lisa Davis.

For more information, please see a Law360 article covering the matter.