On November 3, 2021, the USPTO filed a notice of intent to cancel claims 1-18 of U.S. Patent 8,018,852, owned by Proven Networks, LLC. The ‘852 patent relates to a port selection technique used in a network switching environment where there are multiple equal-cost paths between two nodes. The ‘852 patent has been asserted against Palo Alto Networks, Dell, Microsoft, Cisco, Amazon, HPE, NetApp, Arista, F5, and Extreme Networks.

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