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Cisco Slaps Arista Networks With Suit For "Brazen" Patent Infringement
alphadogg writes Cisco has filed two lawsuits against data center switch competitor Arista Networks for allegedly violating its intellectual property. One suit is for patent infringement, which charges Arista with violating 14 Cisco patents for 12 features in the Arista EOS operating system. The second suit is for extensive copying of Cisco's user manuals and command line structures, right down to the grammatical errors within them. "This is not an accident but a strategy," says a source familiar with the matter. "It was a deliberate, brazen and blatant intellectual property violation in order to gain competitive advantage in the marketplace. Arista's shortcutting to get to market and win share."
Well, God help the US IT industry, anyway. Even with the dubious "diplomacy" the US employs when it comes to exporting intellectual property laws, I expect most of the world would see such an obvious and needless barrier to competition and interoperability for what it is. Prohibiting that kind of competition in the US would just be good for... well, everyone who develops software in another jurisdiction, basically, as long as those other jurisdictions don't propagate the mistake.
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