Cisco Slams Arista With Massive Patent & Copyright Suit
Cisco today filed patent and copyright lawsuits charging Arista with “repeated and pervasive copying of key inventions in Cisco products.”
The lawsuits charge that Arista Networks Inc. knowingly incorporates features in its products violating Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO) intellectual property rights. Arista markets those features to its customers, and brags about the copying to win investors, said Mark Chandler, Cisco senior VP, general counsel and secretary, and chief compliance officer, in a post on the Cisco blog this morning.
Cisco posted the patent lawsuit and copyright lawsuit to Slideshare.
Chandler says Arista deliberately included 12 “discrete and important Cisco features covered by 14 different US patents.”
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