Company Overview of Alcatel-Lucent USA, Inc.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reached an administrative settlement with Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc. and LSI Corp. regarding a former circuit board manufacturing facility located in Henrico County, at 4500 S. Laburnum Ave., Richmond, Va., requiring the companies to address groundwater contaminated with volatile organic compounds. Under an administrative order on consent, LSI Corp. which currently operates and maintains a groundwater treatment system at the facility, is required to continue to do so and implement land and groundwater use restrictions at the facility. Should LSI fail to adequately perform the work under the order, Alcatel-Lucent, the former owner of the facility, has agreed to complete the work.

Newegg Inc. announced that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed Newegg's 2011 victory against Alcatel-Lucent USA, Inc. in a patent infringement lawsuit. On May 15, 2013, the Federal Circuit upheld the original decision, only days after listening to the parties' arguments in Washington, D.C. on May 10, 2013. In October 2011, only Newegg and one co-defendant, Overstock.com, took the case to trial. Other companies that had also been sued or threatened by suit by Alcatel-Lucent paid tens of millions of dollars to Alcatel-Lucent to avoid trial. Newegg and Overstock's refusal to pay Alcatel-Lucent for patents they did not believe they infringed paid off not only for them, but also for other similarly situated companies. Alcatel-Lucent had asserted that the online retailers infringed three patents covering basic e-commerce functionalities used by virtually every e-commerce site. A jury in the Eastern District of Texas found unanimously in favor of Newegg and Overstock and invalidated a critical patent owned by Alcatel-Lucent.

Marathon Patent Group, Inc. announced that its subsidiary Sampo IP, LLC has filed a patent infringement lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas against E*Trade Financial Corporate Services Inc., Liberty Mutual Group Inc., Aetna Inc., Avon Products Inc., Starbucks Corporation, Yum! Brands Inc., Hewlett-Packard Company, and Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc., (the 'Defendants'). Sampo is asserting three causes of action involving patent infringement related to U.S. Patent numbers 6,161,149, 6,772,229, and 8,015,495, all entitled Centrifugal Communication and Collaboration Method. The lawsuit alleges that the Defendants have infringed, and continue to infringe, the claims of the patents in suit by using the accused communications systems and methods covered by the claims of the Sampo patents.