AUSTIN, Texas, November 7, 2017 – Crossroads Systems, Inc. (OTC Pink: CRSS), an intellectual property licensing company, announced that on November 3, 2017, it completed a transaction to sell its patent portfolio to an affiliate of Fortress Investment Group LLC (NYSE: FIG).

The transaction includes:

• Sale of Crossroads’ ‘972 patent portfolio and its non-‘972 patent portfolio as well as related partnership interests. The Fortress affiliate will take over patent monetization efforts with respect to both the ‘972 and non-‘972 patents and the two companies will share the proceeds from such efforts equally (after deducting expenses and a $1.5 Million monetization hurdle).
• Assignment of Crossroads’ existing patent license agreements with all but one licensee. Crossroads has retained the license agreement and breach of contract litigation against Dot Hill Systems, Inc.
• Substitution of the Fortress affiliate into litigation filed against Cisco Systems, Inc., NetApp, Inc., and Quantum Corporation. Recent Federal Circuit Court rulings affirmed the United States Patent and Trademark Office inter partes review (“IPR”) decisions to invalidate the asserted patents. However, on November 3, 2017, following the assignment of the underlying patents by Crossroads, the Fortress affiliate filed two writs of certiorari with the Supreme Court of the United States challenging the validity of the IPR process.

About Crossroads Systems
Crossroads Systems, Inc. (OTC Pink: CRSS) is an intellectual property licensing company headquartered in Austin, Texas. Founded in 1996 as a product solutions company, Crossroads created some of the storage industry's most fundamental patents and has licensed patents to more than 50 companies since 2000. Visit www.crossroads.com.

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Crossroads Systems
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