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Broadcom moves court against Emulex

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IRVINE, USA: Close on the heels of having swept off a hostile takeover bid, California-based Broadcom Corp has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against the rival network IC vendor.

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The company has filed a suit in US District Court for the Central District of California alleging that the Costa Mesa based Emulex infringes on 10 Broadcom patents related to networking and communications technologies.

Meanwhile, as if to clarify, Emulex issued a statement pointing out that it was reviewing the patents associated with the Broadcom complaint. It added that such assertions against it would be vigorously fought against.

It may be recalled that Broadcom had earlier tried to acquire Emulex. It had also initiated a tender offer that was eventually worth $11 per share. Emulex' board of directors repeatedly rejected Broadcom's overtures and advised shareholders not to accept the tender offer, saying it undervalued the company.

A media report said that David Rosmann, Broadcom's vice president for intellectual property litigation has issued a statement charging Emulex with infringing Broadcom patents in competing with Broadcom's existing and future products.

Among the patents are a broad range of high-speed data and storage networking technologies, including IC design, serdes, TCP offload engine, remote direct memory access, fibre channel, and fibre channel over Ethernet technologies. According to Rossmann, Emulex is infringing a broad range of Broadcom patents and his company s concerned that Emulex's infringement is pervasive.

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