Crossroads Settled Outstanding Patent Litigation

Crossroads Systems, Inc. announced the settlement of its outstanding patent litigation with more than seven providers of network storage solutions. Under the terms of these settlement agreements, each of these companies received a non-exclusive license to Crossroad noteworthy patented access controls technology. The patents Nos. 6,425,035 and 7,051,147 are critical to high-technology companies offering robust storage security solutions as the patents cover the ability to control access between hosts and storage devices in a networked storage environment. Filed on May 22, 2008, the lawsuit claimed that these companies sold solutions that used one or both of U.S. patents.

"Our settlement of this litigation demonstrates Crossroad continued desire to deploy robust security solutions worldwide using Crossroad leading-edge inventions and reiterates our commitment to protect our extensive portfolio of intellectual property," said Rob Sims, President and CEO of Crossroads Systems. "While our focus continues to be on the delivery of highly-reliable industry leading-edge storage products to customers and partners worldwide, including our recently released awards-winning product Crossroads ReadVerify Applianc 3.0, we also want to promote the deployment and defend usage of our leading-edge intellectual property as necessary."