This past week, Bell Semiconductor, LLC (Bell Semic) sued Cisco (4:23-cv-00971), Fortinet (4:23-cv-00978), Juniper Networks (4:23-cv-00974), and Palo Alto Networks (4:23-cv-00976), each in the Eastern District of Texas. One of the four circuit design patents is now in suit against all four of these defendants, with subsets of three others asserted as well against Fortinet and Juniper. Bell Semic targets Cisco over the provision of networking switch boards; Juniper, of line cards; and Palo Alto Networks, of firewall appliances, each containing certain semiconductor integrated circuit (IC) packages, while Fortinet is targeted over the provision of certain secure processors.