University of Tennessee sues software company for patent infringement
The University of Tennessee has sued software company Cloudera for patent infringement over its use of data processing systems.
The complaint was filed in the US District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee on Friday, May 26.
It claimed that Cloudera had infringed two patents (US numbers 7,454,411 and 8,099) in its use of two different types of database management software.
The claim stated that the university obtained the patents for this software in 1999.
“Cloudera has directly infringed and continues to directly infringe the patent by, among other things, making, using, offering for sale, and/or selling technology for extracting data from sources of network-based information,” said the claim.
One or more of Cloudera’s products are “parallel data processing systems for search, storage, and retrieval of data from a database responsive to client queries for specific data from a database”, and are allegedly identical to the ‘411 patent.
The second count of patent infringement relates to a method for balancing workload between several host processors, allegedly infringing patent ‘099.
The university has previously sued Amazon, HP and IBM, among others, for patent infringement over databases. That suit claimed Amazon and a number of others had infringed several patents relating to cloud-based software and other digital databases.
The university is seeking a judgment that Cloudera has infringed its patents, as well as damages, a finding of wilful infringement and a jury trial.
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