Wetro Lan LLC v. Belkin International, Inc.

Wetro Lan LLC, an affiliate of patent monetization firm IP Edge LLC, has filed its first new cases since early 2015, bringing the number of defendants in this campaign to roughly 60. The new complaints separately assert the same patent (6,795,918) that has been at issue throughout, this time against Check Point Software (5:16-cv-00152), Comodo Group (Comodo Security Solutions) (5:16-cv-00153), Fortinet (5:16-cv-00154), Kaspersky Lab (5:16-cv-00155), and Panda Security (5:16-cv-00156). The ‘918 patent generally relates to filtering and managing data packets in networking equipment and security software; these latest defendants’ firewalls are the accused products.

Wireless routers are at issue in a campaign by new NPE Wetro Lan, LLC. The entity sued manufacturers of wireless routers, including Actiontec, ADTRAN, Airlink, Asustek, Avaya, Barracuda Networks, Belkin, Comtrend, Cradlepoint, D-Link, Encore, EnGenius, NETGEAR, Newo Corporation, Samsung, and Zhone asserting a single patent (6,795,918). The patent-in-suit was assigned to Wetro Lan by the inventor, and it relates to filtering and managing data packets.