Patent Law Practice Center

Thirteen Brocade Patents Among The Targets Of Reexamination Requests Filed Week Of 6/27/11

Here is the latest installment of Reexamination Requests from Scott Daniels, of Reexamination Alert and Practice Center Contributor…

A10 Networks may have set a record last week when it requested reexamination of 13 Brocade patents involving global servers (see ex parte Request Nos. (2)-(3), (5)-(8), (11)-(17)).  The parties are in litigation over those patents in the Northern District of California.

Reexamination was requested against Lambda Optical Systems’ U.S. Patent No. 6,973,229 related to optical network systems (see ex parteRequest No. (9)).  Lambda sued a number of network companies last year for infringement of the ‘229 patent, including Alcatel-Lucent,NEC, Fujitsu and Nokia-Siemens. (more…)