Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Twin Peaks Sues IBM Over Mirror File System


Case Filed: Aug 29, 2014

Court: District of California

Case Summary:
Twin Peaks Software, Inc. (Twin Peaks), a California based company filed a case against IBM Corporation (IBM), a New York based company alleging that the latter has infringed one of their US patents.

Patent in suit:

Patent Number
Title
Issue Date
Expiration Date[i]
Current Assignee[ii]
Mirror file system
Aug 26, 2008
Mar 19, 2021

The ‘439 patent relates to systems and methods for the storage of files on a network with improved reliability, availability and serviceability. Generally, this is accomplished by establishing a virtual file system that mirrors and links directories and files on multiple file systems.

As in Complaint:

Twin Peaks alleged that IBM had directly infringed the ‘439 patent without permission or authority from it.
Plaintiff Twin Peaks also alleged that defendant IBM has infringed the patent by its manufacture, use, sale, importation, and/or offer for sale of the following products and services: IBM Scale Out Network Attached Storage (SONAS), IBM Storwize V7000, IBM GPFS, IBM pCache, IBM Active Cloud Engine, IBM Active File Management, and IBM Automated File Management. IBM was also alleged of infringing the technology called “Panache” that uses IBM’s infringing Active File Management (AFM).

Conclusion:
Plaintiff added that IBM’s foregoing acts of infringement were willful and deliberate. Hence Twin Peaks is entitled to recovery of past damages, at a minimum, and a reasonable royalty along with interests and costs.
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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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