Crossroads Files to Appeal Recent Patent Decisions

Crossroads Systems, Inc. has filed an appeal with the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit related to the Final Written Decisions regarding IPRs 2014-01226, 2014-01463, 2014-01544, and the IPRs joined to those proceedings (IPRs 2014-00825, 2014-00854, and 2014-00852, respectively).

On January 29, 2016, and March 17, 2016, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) of the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued decisions in these inter partes review proceedings (IPR) initiated against U.S. Patent Nos. 6,425,035, 7,051,147, and 7,934,041 related to technology Crossroads considers fundamental to secure and efficient access to network storage systems.

The IPRs challenged the validity of these patents in response to Crossroads’ lawsuits alleging patent infringement by Cisco Systems, Inc. and others, and the decisions stated that all patent claims subject to the IPRs are unpatentable. The issues on appeal include, but are not limited to, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s application and use of the broadest reasonable interpretation standard, claim construction, determination of unpatentability of all claims of these patents under 35 U.S.C. § 103, any finding or determination supporting or related to those issues, as well as all other issues decided adversely to Crossroads in any orders, decisions, rulings, and opinions.

These appeals, along with the ones previously announced on February 22, 2016, address all the IPRs that were filed and decided against Crossroads’ patents.

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2016.02.05 | Press Release