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PacSec3’s Packet Flooding Defense Campaign Hits Eight More
New Patent Litigation
In February, PacSec3, LLC, a Texas entity associated with patent monetization firm Dynamic IP Deals LLC (d/b/a DynaIP), has fired off another round of suits in its sole litigation campaign, hitting Advent (Forescout Technologies) (2:22-cv-00055) and Splunk (2:22-cv-00056) in the Eastern District of Texas; BlackBerry (6:22-cv-00128), Cloudflare (6:22-cv-00129), CrowdStrike Holdings (6:22-cv-00127), DarkTrace (6:22-cv-00126), Imperva (6:22-cv-00167), and Rapid7 (6:22-cv-00168) in the Western District of Texas; and Mimecast (3:22-cv-00396) in the Northern District of Texas. The lone patent-in-suit generally relates to a system for defending against packet flooding attacks, with the defendants accused of infringement through the provision of firewall systems that support features for preventing packet flood attacks.
February 18, 2022
Networking Campaign Focused on Firewalls Adds Four Cases in Two Districts
New Patent Litigation
Earlier in April, one of the two cases in PacSec3, LLC’s networking campaign, filed last October against F5 Networks, was dismissed with prejudice. A few weeks later, the Texas NPE has now filed a second wave of suits, accusing Cisco (6:21-cv-00388), Juniper Networks (6:21-cv-00387), McAfee (2:21-cv-00140), and Palo Alto Networks (2:21-cv-00141) of infringing the same three patents through the provision of features within their respective firewall systems designed to prevent packet flood attacks. The cases join another October 2020 suit, against NetScout Systems, now entering claim construction before District Judge Alan D. Albright in the Western District of Texas.
April 29, 2021