The U.S. District Court in Los Angeles granted Broadcom’s request...
The U.S. District Court in Los Angeles granted Broadcom’s request for a permanent injunction against some Emulex products that it claimed infringe two Broadcom patents. The enjoined products include Emulex’s BladeEngine 2 (BE2), BladeEngine 3 (BE3) and Lancer (XE201) chips…
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and some of Emulex’s Fibre Channel switch products. The BE2 and BE3 are 10 Gigabit ethernet controllers, which are sold as stand-alone chips and used in Emulex’s OneConnect Converged Network Adapters. Lancer (XE201) is currently used in some of Emulex’s Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter products. The injunction will prohibit Emulex, a provider of network convergence solutions, from importing, manufacturing, using and selling the enjoined products in the U.S. However, the injunction is subject to a sunset period ending in 2013, during which Emulex can continue with sales to customers who had already placed orders by a certain date, the companies said. During this period, Emulex will pay Broadcom a royalty of 9 percent on those sales, according to Broadcom.