Motorola Subsidiaries Sue Aruba Networks on Infringement
Two Motorola subsidiaries are seeking damages and an injunction against Aruba Networks, alleging infringement of four wireless local area network (WLAN) patents. Symbol Technologies and Wireless Valley Communications filed a complaint Monday in the U.S. District Court in Wilmington, Del. An Aruba spokesman said he couldn’t comment since the company hadn’t been served.
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Symbol and Wireless Valley want the court to find Aruba wilfully infringed the patents, issue an injunction against future infringement and award the Motorola units damages with interest plus attorney’s fees, the complaint said.
Aruba infringed two Symbol and two Wireless Valley patents, the plaintiffs alleged. Aruba “imported into the United States, made, used, sold and/or offered for sale in the United States” products covered by the patents, the complaint said, adding that Aruba had “notice and knowledge” of the patents and infringed wilfully. Aruba’s actions have “damaged and will continue to damage” Symbol and Wireless Valley, and “has caused and will continue to cause… irreparable harm unless preliminarily and permanently enjoined,” the complaint said.
Aruba infringed Symbol patents “Multiple Wireless Local Area Networks Occupying Overlapping Physical Spaces” and “Security in Multiple Wireless Local Area Networks,” and Wireless Valley patents “Method and System for Designing or Deploying a Communications Network Which Considers Frequency Dependent Effects” and “System and Method for Design, Tracking, Measurement, Prediction and Optimization of Data Communications Networks,” the complaint said.