Company · Telecommunications Equipment
Ciena Corporation
Federal civil lawsuits naming Ciena Corporation, a Telecommunications Equipment company.
- Ticker
- NYSE: CIEN
- Business
- Telephone & Telegraph Apparatus
- Headquarters
- Hanover, MD
- Incorporated in
- Maryland
- SEC CIK
- 936395
Ciena Corporation is a public company in Telephone & Telegraph Apparatus, based in Hanover, MD (traded on NYSE as CIEN, incorporated in Maryland). It appears in 32 federal civil lawsuits in this index, most often as a defendant (27 of 32). These cases are most often Patent and Securities / Commodities matters, filed between 1996 and 2020, most frequently in District Court, D. Maryland. The most common causes of action are Patent Infringement and Civil Rights. Frequent opposing parties include Pirelli Cable Corp, Oyster Optics, LLC, and Nortel Networks Inc.
32
Lawsuits
27
As Defendant
5
As Plaintiff
1
Open
31
Terminated
1996–2020
Span
10 mo
Median Duration
1.3 cases/yrPredominantly defendant · 84%Patent-heavy · 47%No filings since 2020
Cases by State
Open Cases Over Time
1996peak 8 open2020
Case Types Over Time
19962020
PatentSecurities / CommoditiesContractLaborCivil Rights
Filings by Year
19962020