Commvault Attacks Cohesity and Rubrik With Patent Infringement

Commvault Systems, Inc. filed lawsuits in federal court in Delaware alleging Cohesity, Inc. and Rubrik, Inc. collectively infringe seven company’s patents relating to data management technologies including cloud, data deduplication, snapshots, search, security and virtualization.

Commvault has invested more than $1 billion in R&D, yielding nearly 900 patents worldwide, with 350 patent applications pending.

The company’s lawsuits allege that Rubrik and Cohesity have impermissibly appropriated Commvault-patented inventions in their products to short-circuit the development process and minimize the investment necessary for them to have competitive products.

It is pursuing a judgment finding that Rubrik and Cohesity have infringed and are infringing its United States patents and seeks injunctive relief, as well as monetary damages for past and ongoing infringement.

“Commvault is not a litigious company but given this clear patent infringement by Cohesity and Rubrik, we have a responsibility to file these lawsuits – we must stand up for our innovation and IP,” said Warren Mondschein, VP and general counsel, Commvault.

Lawsuit alleges that Cohesity has infringed and continues to infringe at least one claim of US patent ≠:
7,725,671: System and method for providing redundant access to metadata over a network
7,840,533: System and method for performing an image level snapshot and for restoring partial volume data
8,762,335: System and method for storage operation access security
9,740,723: Systems and methods for management of virtualization data
10,210,048: Selective snapshot and backup copy operations for individual virtual machines in a shared storage
and 10,248,657: Data object store and server for a cloud storage environment, including data deduplication and data management across multiple cloud storage sites

And Rubrik has infringed and continues to infringe at least one claim of US patent ≠:
7,725,671: System and method for providing redundant access to metadata over a network
7,840,533: System and method for performing an image level snapshot and for restoring partial volume data
8,447,728: System and method for storage operation access security
9,740,723: Systems and methods for management of virtualization data
10,210,048: Selective snapshot and backup copy operations for individual virtual machines in a shared storage
and 10,248,657: Data object store and server for a cloud storage environment, including data deduplication and data management across multiple cloud storage sites.