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Patent Dispute Pits Cisco Against StorageTek
Last week StorageTek inked a $4.1 billion deal to be acquired by Sun and on Monday came closing arguments in a patent infringement case against another Silicon Valley giant.Patent Dispute Pits Cisco Against StorageTek
During closing arguments on Monday, Storage Technology Corp. asked a San Francisco jury to award it $322.8 million in damages in its suit against Cisco Systems Inc. StorageTek claims that Cisco infringed its patent covering the way networking equipment handles and routes packets of information. Cisco attorney Matthew Powers, a partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, argued that StorageTek's patent is invalid and not infringed.Patent Dispute Pits Cisco Against StorageTek
During closing arguments on Monday, Storage Technology Corp. asked a San Francisco jury to award it $322.8 million in damages in its suit against Cisco Systems Inc. StorageTek claims that Cisco infringed its patent covering the way networking equipment handles and routes packets of information. Cisco attorney Matthew Powers, a partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, argued that StorageTek's patent is invalid and not infringed.Federal Circuit Vacates Judgment for Internet Security Company
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit vacated a district court's grant of summary judgment of non-infringement for Internet security software and applications company Symantec Corp., saying a fact finder would decide whether Symantec's software intercepts computer viruses before digital data is "stored" on a computer. The court also affirmed that the Cupertino, Calif.-based company did not license the virus detection software patent at issue.Making patent cases simple for juries
FOR ALL OF THE HYPE these days over enormous jury verdicts-including the record $1.5 billion judgment against Microsoft Corp. in March-few juries ever decide a patent dispute. The huge stakes and the unpredictability of juries ensure that "most companies choke down some kind of a settlement or licensing deal," says veteran patent litigator Woody Jameson, a partner at Duane Morris in Atlanta.Trending Stories
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