litigation

November 16, 2015

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Protecting Innovation – Moving Forward

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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 District Court in Northern California. One case, focused on 12 […]

December 5, 2014

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Protecting Innovation

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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 pervasive copying of key inventions in […]

October 11, 2012

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Huawei and Cisco’s Source Code: Correcting the Record

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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 and the results were that there was not any […]

October 1, 2012

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Cisco Suggests Huawei Release Court Report on Intellectual Property Misuse

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To facilitate the understanding about what actually happened in the Cisco v. Huawei litigation and allow Huawei to itself clear up any confusion, we waive any confidentiality requirement for the sealed report and suggest that Huawei itself have the expert's complete final report put into the public domain.

September 13, 2012

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Why Apple-Samsung Proves that the Patent System Can Work

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The Apple-Samsung case not only proves that our system can still work but also reflects the genius behind our patent system.

November 23, 2011

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HP Sues Employees for Leaving – We Challenge HP to Support Employee Freedom

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We challenge HP, with new leadership deeply steeped in Silicon Valley’s environment of mobility and opportunity, to step up and support employee freedom and stop suing employees just for leaving.