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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

AL — 0 casesAZ — 0 casesAR — 0 casesCA — 0 casesCO — 2 casesCT — 0 casesDE — 7 casesDC — 0 casesFL — 0 casesGA — 2 casesID — 0 casesIL — 0 casesIN — 0 casesIA — 0 casesKS — 0 casesKY — 0 casesLA — 0 casesME — 0 casesMD — 13 casesMA — 0 casesMI — 0 casesMN — 0 casesMS — 0 casesMO — 0 casesMT — 0 casesNE — 0 casesNV — 0 casesNH — 0 casesNJ — 1 casesNM — 0 casesNY — 1 casesNC — 0 casesND — 0 casesOH — 0 casesOK — 0 casesOR — 0 casesPA — 0 casesRI — 0 casesSC — 0 casesSD — 0 casesTN — 0 casesTX — 5 casesUT — 0 casesVT — 0 casesVA — 1 casesWA — 0 casesWV — 0 casesWI — 0 casesWY — 0 cases

Open Cases Over Time

1996peak 8 open2020

Case Types Over Time

19962020
PatentSecurities / CommoditiesContractLaborCivil Rights

Filings by Year

19962020

1 Case