Case Filed: Jul 12, 2012
Case Closed: Feb 12, 2014
Court: Delaware District Court
Judge: Richard G. Andrews
Case Summary:
Parallel Iron, a shell company
incorporated in Delaware has filed over 25 lawsuits against tech companies
including LinkedIn, claiming their Hadoop installations infringe on three of
its patents. The patents in question 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 ways of storing massive amounts
of information across multiple memory devices that allow a storage system to
track the information and quickly retrieve it, even when a memory device fails.
In the suit against LinkedIn, 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. As a result of the defendant’s infringement
of the patents, Parallel Iron sought royalty together with interest and costs
as fixed by the Court.
The case is concluded as the
parties entered into a ‘settlement agreement’ and filed a stipulated motion for
dismissal. Upon consideration, the Court
granted and ordered all claims dismissed with prejudice and counterclaims
dismissed without prejudice subject to the terms of agreement. Each party will
incur their own costs. Further details of the settlement were not disclosed.
Most of the other cases filed by Parallel Iron over Hadoop system have been
settled.
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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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applications, patents or entities of interest are recorded.
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