Source: Marathon Patents
Marathon Patent Group, Inc. (OTCBB: MARA) ("Marathon"), an intellectual property services and patent licensing company, announced today that its subsidiary Relay IP, Inc. ("Relay") has filed a patent infringement lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware against Securities Industry Automation Corporation (the "Defendant").
Relay is asserting infringement related to U.S. Patent number 5,331,637, entitled Multicast Routing Using Core Based Trees. The lawsuit alleges that the Defendant has infringed, and continues to infringe, the claims of the patent in suit by using the accused method claimed in distributing data and/or data feeds via distribution network(s), including but not limited to the National Market Systems distribution network running on the Secure Financial Transaction Infrastructure, which practice the Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode standard ("PIM-SM") for multicast routing.