Commvault sues startups Cohesity, Rubrik for infringing 7 patents
Summary
Venerable enterprise software technology vendor Commvault Systems on Tuesday morning said it filed suit in federal court in Delaware against startups Cohesity, Inc., and Rubrik, Inc., both based in Silicon Valley, for collectively infringing on seven patents Commvault owns spanning a range of technologies for functions including back-ups of system images and cloud computing and virtual machine management. Cohesitys "DataProtect" is billed as a backup and recovery application that can run across "core to the cloud and edge. In the court filings, which were made as separate suits for each of the two companies, Commvault refers to both Cohesity and Rubrik as "a newcomer to the data storage and protection industry. " The main claim, which is phrased identically for both companies, is that they have "repeatedly adopted and impermissibly appropriated Commvault-patented inventions" as part of their "introduction of cloud archive integration, virtual machine protection, and policy-based security restrictions, among other proprietary features, to its products. " Both companies have "wrongfully short-circuited the research-and-development process, minimized the investment necessary to have competitive products, and forced Commvault to compete against its own inventions.
