ITC Finds No Section 337 Violation by Network Equipment Supporting NETCONF
The International Trade Commission has ended a Section 337 investigation on imported network equipment supporting NETCONF standards (ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-1391) with a finding of no patent violation, it said in a notice.
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The commission's determination affirmed an order issued by an administrative law judge finding no infringement of the asserted patents. The judge issued the order after third-party Xenogenic Development filed a motion in August to intervene, stay the proceedings on the merits and dismiss the investigation.
The investigation followed a January complaint by Optimum Communications Services, which alleged that Changsha Silun, Hunan Maiqiang, Hunan Zikun and Guangzhou Qiton had infringed patented technologies that “improve cost-efficiency, reliability and performance of network configuration and monitoring” (see 2401250040 and (see 2403040057).