Recent News: Three of my patents were the subject of a federal patent infrigement lawsuit. I spent two weeks of September 2008 in a Delaware court room defending my research and my patents. Here is a quick summary of the results:

This article reports that IBM's Atlanta-based Internet Security Systems unit and Symantec have lost a patent suit filed by SRI International, which alleged the companies infringed its network surveillance patents. SRI filed the patent suit in the federal court in Delaware in 2004. The court ruled that the companies infringed two SRI patents. The jury however ruled Internet Security Systems did not infringe a third patent in the case.

Rdwood City, CA -- Delaware federal district court jury found that SRI International’s patent # 6,711,615 and patent # 6,484,203 for enterprise network intrusion detection technology were valid. Further, the jury found that Symantec Inc. and Internet Security Systems, Inc. infringed those patents in certain network security products (listed below).

ISS’s RealSecure Intrusion Detection System and (I think) Manhunt from Symantec had incorporated anamoly detection capabilities into their software that was a patent infringement against SRI, a research group out of Stanford.  The lawsuit has been going back and forth for years, but a jury finally made a determination and ISS and Symantec have to pay up.  According to SRI, millions of bucks are at stake.

This article reports that SRI International won a jury verdict against an IBM Corp. unit and Symantec Corp. over misuse of network surveillance patents. Jurors in federal court in Wilmington deliberated two days after a two-week trial before deciding this week that IBM's Atlanta-based Internet Security Systems Inc. and Symantec infringed two SRI patents and that the patents are valid. SRI sued its two rivals in 2004 over inventions patented since 2001 for methods of monitoring suspicious computer activity.

Jurors in federal court in Wilmington, Delaware, deliberated for two days after a two-week trial before deciding that IBM's Atlanta-based Internet Security Systems and Symantec infringed two SRI patents and that the patents are valid.  SRI, based in Menlo Park, California, sued its two rivals in 2004 over inventions patented since 2001 for methods of monitoring suspicious computer activity. "SRI International is gratified by the jury's verdict" and "we now look forward to the damages phase of the trial," SRI spokeswoman Alice Resnick said.   

MyIntellectualPropertyRights.com:  Delaware District Court rules against IBM, Symantec in patent infringement lawsuit
In September 2008, a jury in the U.S. District Court of the District of Delaware ruled against an IBM Corp. unit and Symantec Corp. in a patent infringement lawsuit filed by SRI International. SRI, a research institute founded at Stanford University, alleged the companies infringed two of its patents related to network surveillance.