Wetro Lan LLC v. Sophos 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.

Wetro Lan LLC continues to add defendants to its campaign, which has grown to over 50 defendants in the last three months. That includes sixteen new suits, filed against Edgewater Networks, Emerson Electric, Extreme Networks, Hacom, Hitron Technologies, Huawei, Juniper Networks, McAfee, Mitel Networks, Novatel, Phoenix Contact, Proxicast, Siemens, SmartRG, Sophos, and Untangle. The campaign asserts a single patent related to filtering and managing data packets (6,795,918). Like in previous suits, wireless routers made and/or sold by defendants are accused of infringement.