Appellate Court Reaffirms Extreme Networks Patents (EXTR)

Extreme Networks, Inc. EXTR today announced that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has affirmed the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin's prior judgment resulting from a jury verdict in Extreme Networks' favor that Enterasys infringed three of the Company's patents and that the patents are valid. The Federal Circuit's decision also upholds the district court's permanent injunction and damages award against Enterasys. The Federal Circuit also affirmed the district court's decision that Extreme Networks did not infringe Enterasys' '727 patent, which had been asserted against most of the Company's products.