Proven Networks, LLC has filed suit against
Palo Alto Networks (2:20-cv-00389) in the Eastern District of
Texas, a couple of months after its earlier cases—against
Amazon, Arista Networks,
Cisco, Dell
(EMC), HP Enterprise (HPE)
(Aruba Networks), NetApp,
Solarwinds, and
SonicWall—have been consolidated by the
Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation before District Judge
Alan D. Albright, in the Western District of Texas, for pretrial
proceedings. Multiple former Nokia patents are at
issue in this campaign, which has seen voluntary dismissals without
prejudice in additional cases, against Extreme
Networks and F5 Networks.
Two of those patents are asserted in the new complaint against
Palo Alto Networks (8,018,852; 8,165,024), as well as against others. In
total, six patents are at issue across the campaign, including one
against only Cisco (7,508,757) and three others against multiple
other defendants (7,450,507; 7,877,786; 8,812,454). An assertion grid for the
