- Netflix claims Broadcom subsidiary VMware infringes five patents
- Claims VMware knew it was infringing patents for more than a decade
- Netflix now demands that VMware pay for damages caused
Video streaming giant Netflix is suing Broadcom over virtual machine (VM) patents.
According to the lawsuit, filed in federal court in California, Broadcom subsidiary VMware infringes five different patent rights, including the “424 Patent,” “707 Patent,” “891 Patent,” “893 Patent,” and “ Patent 893”. 122 Patent”.
These cover the various aspects of running virtual machines. Three look at CPU usage on virtual machines, and two look at starting at least one virtual machine on a physical machine using a load balancer.
Deliberate infringement
“Broadcom and VMware, jointly and severally, have infringed, and continue to infringe, at least Claim 1 of the ‘424 Patent, either literally or under the doctrine of equivalents, by manufacturing, using, selling and/or offering for sale within the United States and/or importing into the United States products covered by at least Claim 1 of the ‘424 Patent.
These products include, but are not limited to, VMware vSphere Foundation, VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware
Cloud on AWS, Azure VMware Solution, Google Cloud VMware Engine, Oracle Cloud VMware Solution, IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions, Alibaba Cloud VMware Service, as well as any other vSphere-based products and/or services (collectively, the “’424 Accused Products “,” he says in the lawsuit.
Netflix further claims that VMware was aware of the “424 Patent” since at least early August 2012, “when the ‘424 Patent was cited by a United States Patent and Trademark Office examiner during a rejection of VMware’s application. which was eventually issued as US Patent No. 8,650,564.”
“Broadcom and VMware’s infringement of the ‘424 patent has been and is willful and willful,” Netflix concludes in the lawsuit, asking the court for Broadcom to pay an unspecified amount of money in damages.
Through PakGazette
