The PlatformMark Chandler - May 25, 2017 - 0 Comments
Cisco is pleased that the U.S. Patent and Trade Office (U.S. PTO) upheld the validity of our '537 patent, which covers Cisco's proprietary SysDB technology. ITC enforcement proceedings addressing Arista's continued infringement on this patent are underway. These enforcement proceedings are a key step in determining whether Arista's redesigned products continue to use IP copied from Cisco.
We are disappointed in this U.S. PTO decision surrounding the '577 patent, which had been authored by Arista founders Andy Bechtolsheim and David Cheriton when they were Cisco executives. The decision does not directly impact the ITC '945 proceedings, where infringement was found and the ITC refused to allow Arista to seek to invalidate patents that its own employees had created, and which creates a ground for appeal, as well, of the U.S. PTO decision on that patent. For that infringement, a bond is currently required for import or sale of Arista's infringing products, and an import ban and cease and desist order are expected to go into effect beginning July 4.
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