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Two-Pronged Parallel Networks Campaign Targets Cisco

December 30, 2013

Parallel Networks has filed more than 25 litigations this year and the newest one targets Cisco, asserting two patents against the company. The asserted patents relate to communicating data stored in a cache over a network connection (7571217; 8352570). They are part of an ongoing campaign that Parallel launched in August of this year against a number of networking companies, including Barracuda, Citrix, and SAP. In the new suit, Cisco’s networking products that automatically cache dynamic content and re-write URLs to manage network activity are accused of infringing the asserted patents. A day later, Parallel launched a new campaign with newly-created subsidiary Parallel Networks Licensing as the plaintiff. Two suits were filed, against IBM and Microsoft asserting two patents related to managing dynamic web page generation requests (58945546415335). The defendants are alleged to infringe the patents-in-suit by selling products that manage network traffic. Parallel has been filing litigation for almost a decade but 2013 has been its most active year in terms of new filings. The entity has asserted a number of patents related to data caching and dynamic web pages in its almost 50 litigations. Many of those patents, including the two patents-in-suit, originated with Epic Realm and were transferred to Parallel in 2009. 12/19, District of Delaware, 1:13cv02051, 12/20, District of Delaware,1:13cv02072, 1:13cv02073


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