Ruckus Wireless Sues NETGEAR and Rayspan for Wi-Fi Patent Infringement

(Business News & Technology News, 7 May 2008)

Ruckus Wireless Inc. has filed suit in the United States Court for the Northern District of California against NETGEAR Inc. and Rayspan Corp. for patent infringement. In its filing, Ruckus Wireless alleges that in the development of the NETGEAR RangeMax WPN 824v3 wireless router, NETGEAR and Rayspan infringed two Wi-Fi patents (U.S. Patent Nos. 7,358,912 and 7,193,562) granted to Ruckus Wireless by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

The patents-in-suit are fundamental to intelligent and adaptable Wi-Fi antenna arrays like those developed by Ruckus Wireless. Ruckus has over 70 patents granted or pending worldwide in the area of intelligent antenna or wireless technology innovation.

In its complaint, Ruckus Wireless alleges that NETGEAR makes, uses, offers to sell, sells and imports in the United States the RangeMax WPN 824v3 wireless router that infringes the patents-in-suit. Ruckus Wireless also alleges that Rayspan has committed acts of contributory infringement by making, using, offering to sell, selling and importing into the United States components incorporated into NETGEAR wireless routers that infringe the patents-in-suit.

Ruckus Wireless seeks a permanent injunction that bars NETGEAR and Rayspan from making, using, importing, offering to sell or selling the allegedly infringing products. Ruckus is also seeking damages and reasonable royalties realized by the sale of the RangeMax WPN 824v3 product, and possibly other infringing products, as well as statutory damages.

In January 2005, Ruckus Wireless and NETGEAR announced and entered into a technology licensing agreement under which Ruckus would develop the underlying technology within the NETGEAR RangeMax 824v1 and v2 wireless routers, the predecessors to the RangeMax 824v3 at issue. The resulting hardware and software technology developed for NETGEAR was owned and patented by Ruckus Wireless.

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