litigation
Protecting Innovation: Final Ruling Confirms Unlawful Infringement
Today the International Trade Commission issued a Final Determination that Arista’s products infringe three Cisco patents. Two of the patents cover Cisco’s private VLAN network security technology which Arista included in its switches. The third covers Cisco’s proprietary core SysDB technology misap…
Protecting Innovation – Moving Forward
With the second International Trade Commission (ITC) trial regarding Arista’s use of Cisco’s proprietary networking technology patents almost complete, now is a good time to provide an update. As you will recall, Cisco filed copyright and patent infringement cases against Arista last December in the…
Protecting Innovation
In the thirteen years I’ve been General Counsel of Cisco, I can count on one hand the number of times we’ve initiated suit against a competitor, supplier or customer. It’s therefore only after thoughtful and serious consideration that we are today filing two lawsuits to stop Arista’s repeated and pe…
Huawei and Cisco’s Source Code: Correcting the Record
Last week, I wrote about statements made by Charles Ding, Huawei’s Senior Vice President and Chief Representative in the U.S., Mr. Ding explained the 2003-2004 intellectual property litigation between Cisco and Huawei as follows: “Huawei provided our source code of our products to Cisco for review a…
Cisco Suggests Huawei Release Court Report on Intellectual Property Misuse
Recently, Mr. Charles Ding, Huawei Corporate Senior Vice President and Chief Representative in the United States spoke publicly about Huawei’s use of Cisco’s intellectual property. While Huawei’s statements were in a context unrelated to the competitive relationship that Cisco and Huawe…
Why Apple-Samsung Proves that the Patent System Can Work
Like many in the tech industry, I closely followed the recent Apple-Samsung litigation and believe that the case will have meaningful implications for years to come. What I find most interesting is not the jury’s decision – which could have gone either way for purposes of this commentary – but the…
HP Sues Employees for Leaving – We Challenge HP to Support Employee Freedom
For the third time in two years, HP has filed a lawsuit to stop a former employee from going to work with Cisco – in one case, almost half a year after the employee had left HP in a voluntary reduction-in-force. As headhunters and other companies are flooded with resumes from HP employees seeking s…