Invalidity dossier
US 7113485
Current assignee: Corrigent Corporation
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Patent summary
Title, assignee, inventors, filing/issue dates, abstract, and a plain-language overview of the claims.
Cases on file (3)
Group view →Specific litigation cases in our database that name US patent 7113485. The free-form analysis below may also discuss cases beyond this list.
- Corrigent Corporation v. Cisco Systems, Inc.filed Apr 19, 20226:22-cv-00396-ADAU.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, Waco Divisionterminated Feb 10, 2025Final judgment for Cisco; terminated
Defendants: Cisco Systems, Inc.
- Corrigent Corporation v. Dell Technologies Inc. et al.filed Apr 19, 20221:22-cv-00496-RGAU.S. District Court for the District of Delawarepending
Defendants: Dell Technologies Inc., Dell Inc.
- Corrigent Corporation v. Arista Networks, Inc.filed Apr 19, 20221:22-cv-00497-RGAU.S. District Court for the District of Delawarepending
Defendants: Arista Networks, Inc.
Litigation summary
Past and pending lawsuits — plaintiffs, defendants, jurisdictions, outcomes, and notable rulings.
Proceedings on file (0)
All PTAB activity →AIA trial proceedings (IPR / PGR / CBM) filed at the USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board against this patent. Sourced from the USPTO Open Data Portal and refreshed every six hours; each proceeding number deep-links to the PTAB E2E docket.
Current assignee: Corrigent Corporation
No PTAB proceedings on file. This patent has not been challenged via IPR, PGR, or CBM. The absence is itself a signal — well-asserted patents eventually attract IPRs. The LLM analysis below may surface filings the ODP feed hasn’t indexed yet.
PTAB challenges
AIA trial proceedings at the USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board — IPR, PGR, and CBM. Petitioners, judge panels, claim-level invalidation outcomes from Final Written Decisions, and Federal Circuit appeals. The single most important defensive datapoint after litigation history.
Assignment history
Inventors, original assignee, and the chain of ownership recorded with the USPTO — including the correspondent attorney who recorded each assignment, since shell-LLC chains often share one repeat-player attorney even when the entity names look unrelated. Surfaces NPE / patent-troll patterns: shell-entity transfers, known asserters in the chain, repeat correspondent fingerprints, pre-litigation assignments, and bankruptcy fire-sales.
Prior art
Earlier patents, publications, and products that may anticipate or render the claims unpatentable.
Obviousness
Combinations of prior art that suggest the claimed invention would have been obvious under 35 U.S.C. § 103.
Extensions
Patent term adjustments, term extensions, continuations, divisionals, family members, and expiration dates.
Derivative works
Defensive disclosure: derivative variations of each claim designed to render future incremental improvements obvious or non-novel.
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This patent in court (3)
3 tracked lawsuits name US 7113485.