Case Filed: Feb 18, 2014
Court: Texas Western District
Court
Case Summary:
Crossroads Systems, a provider of
data protection solutions and services filed a complaint Tuesday against Cisco
alleging patent infringement. The patents at issue are: US6425035 and US7934041
both entitled ‘storage router and method for providing virtual local storage’,
issued on Jul 23, 2002 and Apr 26, 2011, respectively. Both the patents are set
to expire[i]
by Dec 31, 2017 and are currently assigned[ii]
to Crossroads (source: MaxVal’s Assignment
Database). The asserted patents cover technology to secure and to
efficiently access network storage systems.
Crossroads asserts that Cisco has
directly infringed the ’035 and ‘041 patents by incorporating the patented
technology into their storage systems. The accused products include: Cisco MDS
9200 Series Switches and Cisco MDS 9500 Series Multi-Layer Directors with
Cisco’s 18/4-Port Multiservice Module.
The complaint further states that
Cisco had actual notice of the patents-in-suit since October 2002 and they have
not ceased the infringing activities which has been and continues to be willful
and deliberate. Crossroads seeks monetary damages and injunctive relief.
Apart from Cisco, Crossroads has
also sued NetApp and Quantum on the same day asserting the same patents. NetApp
provides enterprise storage and data management software and hardware products
and services, while Quantum provides scalable file storage systems and archive
software and appliances for managing data.
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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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