Case Filed: Jul 12, 2012
Case Closed: Nov 12, 2013
Case Duration: 488 Days
Court: Delaware District Court
Judge: Richard G. Andrews
Case Summary:
A patent infringement case was
filed by Parallel Iron against Adobe Systems asserting that 3 of their patents
relating to data storage methods were infringed. The patents-in-suit were:
- US7197662 issued on Mar 27, 2007
- US7543177 issued on Jun 02, 2009
- US7958388 issued on Jun 07, 2011
All the patents are entitled ‘Methods
and systems for a storage system’ and expire[i]
by Oct 31, 2022. Parallel iron is the current assignee[ii]
of the patents (source: MaxVal’s Assignment
Database). The patents in general describe the methods and systems for
storing large amounts of data.
In the complaint filed, plaintiff
alleged that defendant manufactures products and/or services implementing
Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), which is designed to store very large
data sets and to stream those data sets at high bandwidth to user applications
as claimed in the ‘662, ‘177 and ‘388 patents. Plaintiff sought the Court to
declare that Adobe has infringed the patents, a permanent injunction enjoining
them from infringing its patents, damages, costs and expenses.
The case is concluded as the parties
entered into a ‘licensed patents settlement agreement’. Later, they filed
a stipulated motion for dismissal, which the Court granted and ordered all
claims and counterclaims to be dismissed with prejudice subject to the terms of
agreement reached. Each party will incur their own costs. Further details of the
settlement were not disclosed.
See 1:12-cv-00874 for more details. To get
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* Expected expiration date
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[i]
Expected expiration date. Patent Term Estimator
is a free web-based tool that automatically calculates patent terms and
expiration dates for U.S. utility patents
[ii]
MaxVal offers Patent Assignment Alert service
where subscribers receive email alerts when assignments relating to target
applications, patents or entities of interest are recorded.
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