GraphOn Corp. announced settlements ending all legal disputes between GraphOn and CareerBuilder, LLC and Classified Ventures, LLC. The terms of the settlements were not disclosed pursuant to confidentiality provisions in the settlement agreements.

GraphOn Corporation announced that it has filed a lawsuit against Classified Ventures, LLC; IAC/InterActiveCorp; Match.com; Yahoo! Inc.; eHarmony.com Inc. and CareerBuilder, LLC alleging infringement of four GraphOn patents. The complaint, filed in United States District Court in the Eastern District of Texas, alleges infringement of U.S. Patent Nos. 6,324,538 (the '538 patent), 6,850,940 (the '940 patent), 7,028,034 (the '034 patent) and 7,269,591 (the '591 patent) which protect GraphOn's unique method of maintaining an automated and network-accessible database. The suit alleges that the named companies infringe the GraphOn patents on each of their popular and widely used Web sites. The suit seeks permanent injunctive relief along with unspecified damages. This lawsuit follows the filing of a lawsuit against AutoTrader.com Inc. in November 2005 claiming infringement of the '538 and '940 patents and the filing of a lawsuit against Juniper Networks in August 2007 claiming infringement of three GraphOn patents which protect GraphOn's fundamental network security and firewall technologies. In January 2008, GraphOn announced a license agreement and the end of its legal dispute with AutoTrader.com. GraphOn obtained the '538 and '940 patents and the applications that resulted in the '034 and '591 patents as part of its acquisition of Network Engineering Software Inc. (NES) in February 2005. In addition to the subject patents, GraphOn acquired intellectual property, other patents, and other patent applications resulting from more than ten years of development effort by NES.