Failing to buy Emulex, Broadcom sues

From InfoWorld: Broadcom filed a patent infringement suit against networking company Emulex on Monday, just months after abandoning a nearly year-long effort to buy the company.

Broadcom on Monday filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California alleging Emulex infringed 10 patents covering a broad range of high speed data and storage networking technologies.

Emulex responded in a statement saying it is reviewing the patents named in the Broadcom complaint and that it will "vigorously" defend itself.

The patent infringement suit comes just a few months after Broadcom gave up an attempted hostile takeover of Emulex. The companies both develop chips and other networking products.

Broadcom's final offer for Emulex, worth US$925 million at the time, expired in mid-July, after months of trying to convince Emulex management and stockholders to accept its buyout offer.

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