Commvault (a publicly-traded data management and data protection software
company headquartered in New York) has quite recently filed Patent Infringement lawsuits against
Rubrik (a California-based cloud data management company) and Cohesity (a
privately held IT company headquartered in San Jose, California) in federal
court in Delaware. Commvault has stated that the companies have altogether
infringed upon its seven patents, which correspond to a plethora of widely used
data management technologies such as data deduplication, cloud, security,
snapshots, virtualization, and search. To be specific, Commvault has claimed
that both Cohesity and Rubrik have appropriated its patented technologies to
short-circuit their development processes and reduce the investment needed,
corresponding to building competitive products.
The Vice President and Chief Intellectual Property (IP) Counsel at Commvault,
Marcus Muller, has said that the lawsuits hold the responsibility of
safeguarding a company’s employees and investors, and also bring about fairness
when it comes to competing in the global market. He further mentioned that for
over two decades now, Commvault has been successfully delivering solutions to
its customers and has become the pioneer in this space. By investing even more
than $1 billion in its innovations and inventions, Commvault, at present, owns
900 patents across the globe and over 350 pending patents.
Commvault’s General Counsel, Warren Mondschein, mentioned in a recent
statement that Commvault is not at all a litigious company; however when
companies like Cohesity and Rubrik commit willful patent infringement, then it
is the company’s responsibility to file such lawsuits and take a stand for the
protection of its innovations and IP assets.
Lynn Lucas, the Chief Marketing Officer at Cohesity, has said that it is
not unusual for legacy vendors to come forward and disrupt the market by filing
frivolous lawsuits in an attempt to suppress sales and innovation. Coming to
this matter, he stated that Cohesity came to know about the patent infringement
lawsuit, not by Commvault’s representatives but through the media. He believes
that there is no merit to the lawsuit filed as it is only an attempt to slow
down Cohesity’s rapid growth and obstruct its accelerating success.
In an unattributed statement, Rubrik only stated that it doesn’t comment
on any pending litigation.
When Commvault was asked why it is filing patent infringement lawsuits
against Rubrik and Cohesity corresponding to widely implemented storage
software capabilities such as cloud, search, virtualization, to name a few,
Muller said the company is not claiming on all the aspects in these
technologies and is looking at specific patents. He further declined to
speculate about whether the company would file similar lawsuits against other
such competitors in the market or not.
Commvault, Cohesity, and Rubrik compete vigorously for data protection
and management business in the market. On the one hand, Commvault is a
long-established vendor, while Cohesity and Rubrik, on the other hand, are
well-funded and rapidly emerging new companies on the block. For view source: https://www.trademarkmaldives.com/blog/commvault-sues-cohesity-and-rubrik-alleging-patent-infringement/
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