Egenera, Inc. v. Cisco Systems, Inc., No. 19-2015 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 28, 2020)

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Egenera, Inc . (“Egenera”) sued Cisco Systems, Inc. (“Cisco”) in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts , alleging that Cisco’s enterprise server systems infringe various claims of U.S. Patent No. 7,231,430 (“the ’430 patent”). Prior to claim construction , and alongside an ongoing inter partes review (“IPR”) proceeding, Egenera separately petitioned the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“PTO”) to remove one of the eleven listed inventors from the ’430 patent.