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5 cases as defendant.
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Overview. Extreme Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXTR) is a publicly traded enterprise networking vendor. It was incorporated in California in May 1996 and reincorporated in Delaware in 1999; it has traded on Nasdaq since April 1999. Headquarters are at 2121 RDU Center Drive, Morrisville, North Carolina, though the company was founded in Silicon Valley and maintains facilities in San Jose, CA and Salem, NH. It reports roughly 2,800–2,900 employees and fiscal 2025 net revenue of $1.14 billion (fiscal year ended June 30, 2025); market capitalization has recently been in the $2–3 billion range. It is an independent public company, not a subsidiary.
Products / operations. Extreme designs, develops, and sells wired and wireless network infrastructure plus cloud management software: ExtremeSwitching (edge, campus, and data-center switches), ExtremeWireless indoor/outdoor Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 7 access points, ExtremeCloud SD-WAN, the ExtremeCloud IQ cloud management platform, and Extreme Platform ONE, an AI/agentic networking platform made generally available in July 2025. It also offers analytics, security, and guest/location applications, plus support and professional services. Substantially all manufacturing is outsourced to contract manufacturers. Sales run through distributors, resellers, OEMs, and field sales, into education, government, healthcare, retail, hospitality, manufacturing, transportation, and large sports/entertainment venues (it is a longtime NFL Wi-Fi provider). Product lines were expanded through the acquisitions of Enterasys, Zebra's WLAN business, Avaya's networking business, Brocade's data-center networking business, and Aerohive.
Litigation posture. A pure operating-company defendant: zero plaintiff-side cases and one defendant case in our tracked data. It does not appear as a patent assertion entity.
Notable case. CommWorks Solutions, LLC v. Extreme Networks, Inc., No. 6:23-cv-00835 (W.D. Tex., filed Dec. 7, 2023, Judge Fred Biery). CommWorks is a Georgia LLC described in its Rule 7 disclosure as owned by Brainbox Innovations, LLC, and associated with monetization firm IPInvestments Group; it asserts patents acquired from Intellectual Ventures. Four patents were asserted — US 6,832,249; 7,027,465; 7,760,664; and RE44,904 — covering broadband QoS, Wi-Fi priority/frame detection, and network path provisioning, targeting products including the ExtremeRouting CER 2000 and ExtremeWireless AP560. The case was dismissed with prejudice by joint motion on May 17, 2024, each party bearing its own costs; no court findings on validity or infringement were made.
Hanger Solutions sued Extreme Networks in D. Del. alleging infringement of US 6,430,623 and related patents US 6,609,159 and US 6,772,227. Hanger filed a notice of voluntary dismissal on April 9, 2021, and the case closed April 12, 2021.
2017 Central District of California case asserting the '231 patent along with U.S. 7,062,296 and 7,729,728. Final judgment was entered for Extreme Networks on April 15, 2022, on the same collateral-estoppel basis.
CommWorks sued Extreme Networks in W.D. Tex.; the case was dismissed with prejudice on joint motion around May 17, 2024, with no merits ruling or fee-shifting. US 7,027,465 was asserted with RE44,904 and other companion patents.
CommWorks Solutions, LLC sued Extreme Networks, Inc. in the W.D. Tex. involving U.S. 7,760,664. Outcome unknown.
Appeal by XR Communications from the C.D. Cal. final judgment in the Extreme Networks action. The appeal was terminated with the lower decision standing ('AFFIRMED'/appeal dismissed).