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Cisco Slaps Arista Networks With Suit For "Brazen" Patent Infringement

Posted by samzenpus on from the do-your-own-work dept.

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."

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  1. Come on people, by bruce_the_loon · · Score: 4, Funny

    If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times, run the manuals through Google Translate twice and then run Word's grammar checks.

    If you copy verbatim, you gonna get caught.

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    1. Re:Come on people, by sumdumass · · Score: 4, Insightful

      The objective of the copying and likely the patent infringement is so there would be no learning cure for their products. It would end up being a cheaper clone of Cisco that any Cisco certified admin would be comfortable on.

      In short, they didn't really care about getting kicked out of school. They only wanted invited into the computer labs. Once in, it is easier to stay in.

  2. Deja vu by seoras · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Huawei did the same thing when they launched their first routers.
    Worse even. They just copied the Cisco IOS code replacing the string "Cisco Systems Inc" with "Huawei"
    Cisco won in court because Huawei's routers had the exact same bugs and spelling mistakes in the IOS CLI.