Microsoft Corporation vs. Edge Networking Systems, LLC

Explore the PTAB proceeding IPR2025-00619 filed by Microsoft Corporation on 2025-02-17. This includes filing dates, application numbers, tech centers, patent numbers, and current case status.

Proceeding Overview

Proceeding Number

IPR2025-00619

Filing Date

2025-02-17

Accorded Filing Date

2025-02-17

Institution Decision Date

2025-09-30

Last Modified Date

2025-10-31

Proceeding Type

IPR

Termination Date

2025-09-30

Trial Status

Institution Denied

Parties & Counsel

Petitioner

Microsoft Corporation

Represented By

Tyson, Christopheret al

Patent Owner / Respondent

Edge Networking Systems, LLC

Represented By

Theiss, Brandonet al

Tribunal & Venue

Tribunal

Patent Trial and Appeal Board (USPTO)

Technology Center

TC 2400 - Computer Networks, Multiplex & Cybersecurity

Patent Information

1 Patent Involved

Respondent Application Number 15836824

Respondent Patent Number 10686871

External Links

Espacenet

Google Patents

Respondent Inventor Pouya Taaghol et al

Respondent Tech Center TC 2400 - Computer Networks, Multiplex & Cybersecurity

Address and Attorney/Agent Information

38 Registered Practitioners

Power of Attorney & Correspondence

Firm / Entity Name VOLPE KOENIG

Customer Number 3624

Address 30 SOUTH 17TH STREET, 18TH FLOOR, PHILADELPHIA, PA, 19103, UNITED STATES

Attorney / Agent Information

Reg #	Name	Phone
28377	Anthony Volpe	215-568-6400
29662	C Koenig Iii	215-568-6400
33701	Daniel Golub	267-693-4322
34626	Randolph Huis	215-568-6400
37633	Gerald Halt Jr	215-568-6400
43593	John Donch Jr	215-568-6400
45215	Stuart Whittington	215-255-9230
48636	Todd Norton	215-255-9135
53223	Daniel Ling	216-363-9000
53401	Ryan O'Donnell	609-924-7900
53703	Dean Tricarico	973-828-1284
56982	Wesley Mcmichael	215-568-6400
57204	Robert Leonard	215-568-6400
58200	Nicholas Tinari Jr.	215-567-2010
58347	Michael Snyder	215-568-6400
59819	Joseph Gushue	215-570-3300
59955	Joshua Hamberger	201-410-8447
61553	Christina Walsh	215-568-6400
62745	Joseph Boos Jr	215-255-9190
64233	Marina Sigareva	617-470-1531
64397	Edward La Barr	215-255-6400
65170	Anthony Pettes	215-568-6400
65711	John Bollinger	610-213-6283
65760	Jonathan Dunsay	215-568-6400
66827	Baha Obeidat	206-622-4900
67743	Dawn Kerner	215-568-6400
69369	Patrick Griffin	610-733-1599
70507	Brandon Theiss	201-953-0854
71204	Robert Moore	617-348-1826
71315	Alok Parikh	215-255-9206
73179	Andrew Buschmeier	215-255-9158
74555	Danielle Gross	215-255-9233
75417	Michael Maicher	215-568-6400
76110	John Wilt	215-255-9187
78244	Joshua Schmid	609-313-8038
800108	Radhika Joshi	215-255-9212
81932	Bradley Richards	678-386-2752
82796	Brandon Barr	215-568-6400

Proceeding Documents

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DECISION Denying Institution of Inter Partes Review 35 U.S.C. § 314 DECISION

2025-09-30 FILING PARTY: BOARD

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Director Discretionary Decision: Refer RESPONSE

2025-07-31 FILING PARTY: BOARD

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Patent Owner's Reply In Support Of Motion for Discretionary Denial OTHER

2025-07-22 FILING PARTY: PATENT OWNER

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3101

Email Correspondence Exhibit

2025-07-17 FILING PARTY: BOARD

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1077

EX1077 Dkt 41 - ENS v Microsoft - Order setting Markman Hearing for 10-7-2025 (6-11-2025) Exhibit

2025-07-15 FILING PARTY: PETITIONER

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Microsoft Corporation vs. Edge Networking Systems, LLC

Proceeding Overview

Parties & Counsel

Petitioner

Microsoft Corporation

Represented By

Patent Owner / Respondent

Edge Networking Systems, LLC

Represented By

Tribunal & Venue

Patent Information

Address and Attorney/Agent Information

Power of Attorney & Correspondence

Attorney / Agent Information

Proceeding Documents

DECISION Denying Institution of Inter Partes Review 35 U.S.C. § 314 DECISION

Director Discretionary Decision: Refer RESPONSE

Patent Owner's Reply In Support Of Motion for Discretionary Denial OTHER

Email Correspondence Exhibit

EX1077 Dkt 41 - ENS v Microsoft - Order setting Markman Hearing for 10-7-2025 (6-11-2025) Exhibit

EX1082 assignment- BDF to Taaghol (3-16-2023) Exhibit

EX1073 U.S. Patent Publication No. 20130223442 to Narayanan (Narayanan) Exhibit

EX1075 March 2025 Email with Sotera Stipulation (ENS v MSFT) Exhibit

EX1079 Edge Networking Sys Certificate of Formation(19460076.1) Exhibit

IPR2025-00619 Petitioner’s Opposition to Patent Owner’s Request for Discretionary Denial of Institution RESPONSE

EX1080 assignment-pat-63454-352 - Taaghol to Edge Networking(4-20-2023) Exhibit

EX1081 assignment- 624 Patent Taaghol to BDF (11-7-2019) Exhibit

EX1076 April 2025 Emails with Board re filing Sotera stip for MSFT v ENS IPRs Exhibit

EX1078 Dkt 43 - ENS v Microsoft - Amended Scheduling Order (6-27-2025) Exhibit

EX1083 USP 9843624 (Taaghol)(19460036.1) Exhibit

Patent Owner's Preliminary Response POPR

EX1074 Excerpt from Zenious et al., BIODESIGN; THE PROCESS OF INNOVATING MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES (EX2010 in iRhythm Technologies Inc. v. Welch Allyn Inc., IPR2025-00363) Exhibit

Ex. 2001 - Shatzkamer Exhibit

Ex. 2005 - Petition In IPR2018-01739 Exhibit

Ex. 2007 - Excerpts of File History of USP 10496387 Exhibit

Brief In Support Of Motion for Discretionary Denial RESPONSE

Ex. 2004 - Homiller - US20040237081 Exhibit

Ex. 2003 - Draluk - US20130160147 Exhibit

Ex. 2002 - McKeown et al - Openflow Paper Exhibit

Ex. 2006 - USP 10496387 Exhibit

Notice: Mandatory Notice NOTICE

Notice: Power of Attorney NOTICE

Notice: NOTICE OF FILING DATE ACCORDED TO PETITION AND TIME FOR FILING PATENT OWNER PRELIMINARY RESPONSE NOTICE

Notice: Power of Attorney NOTICE

Notice: Mandatory Notice NOTICE

1044 Excerpts from A.S. Tanenbaum, “Modern Operating Systems” Exhibit

1059 Excerpts from Silberschatz et al., Operating System Concepts Exhibit

1055 “Using Custom Socket Factories with Java RMI”, Oracle Java SE Document Exhibit

1016 U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/123,971 Exhibit

1058 Usenix Jails in FreeBSD for Fun and Profit, Paco Hope, USENIX ;login Exhibit

1006 File history of related U.S. Patent No. 10,893,095 (the “’095 Patent”) Exhibit

1056 “Using Java™ RMI with SSL”, Oracle Java SE Documentation Exhibit

1054 “Java™ Remote Method Invocation API (Java RMI)”, Oracle Java SE Exhibit

1005 File history of related U.S. Patent No. 9,483,624 (the “’624 Patent”) Exhibit

1001 U.S. Patent No. 10,686,871 (the “’871 Patent”) Exhibit

1020 “Fifteen industry leaders to create standard for bringing Internet Exhibit

1032 Excerpts from A.S. Tannenbaum, “Computer Networks” Exhibit

1011 J. S. Rellermeyer and S. Bagchi, “Dependability as a cloud service Exhibit

1018 “Carlstedt Research & Technology Forms New Company for Developing Soft Exhibit

1026 “About Us: Background”, Gatespace AB website Exhibit

1070 Plaintiff Edge Networking Systems, LLC’s Opening Claim Construction Exhibit

1008 Excerpts from A. de Castro Alves, “OSGi in Depth”, Manning Publication Exhibit

1029 T. Forst, “Cisco Application eXtension Platform – OSGi Add-on Exhibit

1067 U.S. Department of Commerce, FIPS PUB 186-2, Digital Signature Exhibit

1072 Scheduling Order, filed as Document No. 27, on September 4, 2024 Exhibit

1064 “apache_1.3.19.tar.gz.md5” Hash File, Apache Software Foundation Exhibit

1039 Li, et al., “ExpoNet: A Flexible Platform for Concurrent Experiments Exhibit

1030 U.S. Patent Publication No. 2013/0086147 to Kashyap Exhibit

1043 R. Kawashima, “vNFC: A Virtual Networking Function Container for SDN-e Exhibit

1022 “Open Services Gateway Initiative: Charter”, OSGi website Exhibit

1012 S. Kächele, et al., “Component-based scalability for cloud application Exhibit

1025 “Management Team”, Gatespace AB website, archived on February 8, 2002 Exhibit

1053 “Java Secure Socket Extension (JSSE) Reference Guide for Java Platform Exhibit

1035 Curriculum Vitae (CV) of Petitioner’s Expert Dr. Erez Zadok. Exhibit

1048 “REST Security Cheat Sheet”, The Open Web Application Security Project Exhibit

1003 Declaration of Petitioner’s Expert, Dr. Erez Zadok, (Zadok) Exhibit

1028 The OSGi Alliance, “OSGi Service Platform Enterprise Specification” Exhibit

1015 U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/088,437 Exhibit

1004 U.S. Patent No. 6,496,575 to Vasell, et al. Exhibit

1014 Declaration of June A. Munford Exhibit