Core Optical Technologies, LLC v. Nokia Corporation, No. 23-1001 (Fed. Cir. May 21, 2024)

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Between November 2019 and August 2020, Core Opti- cal Technologies, LLC filed complaints in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California alleging in- fringement of U.S. Patent No. 6,782,211 by three groups of defendants led by Nokia Corp., ADVA Optical Networking SE, and Cisco Systems, Inc. (collectively, Nokia). In Au- gust 2021, Nokia moved for summary judgment, arguing that Core Optical lacked standing to assert the ’211 patent even though the inventor, Dr. Mark Core, had assigned the patent to Core Optical in 2011.