Case Filed: Mar 06, 2013
Case Closed: Dec 30, 2013
Court: Delaware District Court
Judge: Richard G. Andrews
Case Summary:
A
patent infringement case was filed by Parallel Iron against Google 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 methods and
systems for storing large amounts of data.
In the complaint filed, plaintiff alleged that
defendant manufactures products and/or services implementing Google File System
(GFS), 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.
The case is concluded as the parties entered into a
‘settlement agreement’. Later, they filed a stipulated motion for
dismissal, which the Court granted and ordered all claims dismissed with
prejudice and counterclaims be dismissed without prejudice subject to the terms
of agreement. Each party will incur their own costs. Further details of the
settlement were not disclosed.
See 1:13-cv-00367 for
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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]
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