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Cisco Faces Lawsuit For Alleged Fraud
News Internet telephony specialist Net2Phone and Adir Technologies filed a lawsuit against Cisco Systems on Tuesday, charging the networking giant with alleged fraud. Cisco said the lawsuit by Net2Phone and Adir is the result of business issues, not...
[March 20, 2002, 9:16]
Cisco Settles Class Action Lawsuit
News In the lawsuit, Cisco shareholders claimed that senior executives had acted on insider information when they sold almost $600m of stock in the company before its share price tumbled in 2001 on disappointing financial results.
[August 18, 2006, 18:15]
Apple And Cisco Resolve 'iPhone' Dispute
News Cisco Systems and Apple said on Wednesday they have settled the trademark-infringement lawsuit over the use of the iPhone name for Apple's new multimedia phone. Cisco also charged in its complaint that Apple had attempted to get rights to the...
[February 22, 2007, 7:32]
3Com Denies Huawei Patent Risks
News There is no connection between the stinging lawsuit from Cisco and Huawei's decision to take a partner outside China, said Ceronie, however, 3Com can see a positive side to the dispute, he said: "Cisco has done a remarkable job of branding this...
[March 24, 2003, 9:26]
Cisco Sues Apple Over Rights To IPhone Name
News Cisco Systems has filed a lawsuit against Apple accusing the company of infringing its iPhone trademark, the networking company said on Wednesday. Cisco said in the complaint that Apple had attempted to get rights to the iPhone name several times...
[January 11, 2007, 7:38]
Cisco And Huawei Mend Fences
News Cisco said on Wednesday that it expects to end the lawsuit if Huawei abides by the agreement and makes changes to several of its router and switch products. Cisco competitor 3Com intervened in the lawsuit and promised to help honour the agreement.
[October 2, 2003, 10:35]
Chinese Firm Backs Down In Cisco Case
News Huawei Technologies representative Wendy Wu said on Friday that the equipment maker began scaling down shipments after Cisco raised its concerns informally and before Cisco filed its lawsuit in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.
[February 10, 2003, 10:27]
US Report: Cisco Countersues Lucent
News Lucent said it will continue to pursue its lawsuit. When Lucent Technologies sued Cisco Systems last month for infringing on eight of its technology patents, Cisco offered a quiet response denying the suit's validity.
[August 12, 1998, 6:05]
Cisco Chief Cuts Salary To $1
News In addition, the company was slapped Friday with a shareholder lawsuit. Cisco Systems chief executive John Chambers has cut his salary to $1 in order to save a few jobs at the company, which is in the midst of laying off up to 8,500 employees, the...
[April 25, 2001, 9:32]
Cisco Sues Huawei Over Patents
News Cisco Systems has filed a lawsuit against Huawei Technologies, claiming the Chinese telecommunications equipment maker infringed on its patents and illegally copied source code. Huawei, based in Shenzhen, China, has a wide reach in Asia, and...
[January 23, 2003, 15:08]
Backing Up Cisco's Security
News The lawsuit was retaliation for disclosing research into the security of software that runs Cisco routers and switches. Cisco drew the ire of the hacking community last summer when it decided to sue a security researcher.
[February 14, 2006, 14:45]
Huawei Admits Copying Cisco Code
News Cisco's lawsuit alleges that Huawei copied up to 1.5 million lines of software code. Huawei Technologies said in court papers filed this week that it used some of Cisco Systems' source code in its routers.
[March 26, 2003, 8:47]
Why Did IPhone Talks Collapse?
News The company's general counsel, Mark Chandler, said in an interview on Wednesday after Cisco filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against Apple that the companies had been close to finalising a deal the night before Apple chief executive Steve...
[January 12, 2007, 7:43]
Patent Reform Case Falls
News Google and Cisco aren't too happy about the US Supreme Court's decision this week in a lawsuit over vehicle drive shafts of a certain very specific size. It's no joke. The justices on Tuesday refused to hear a hotly contested patent case involving...
[January 20, 2005, 9:30]
Security Researchers Vs Vendors: Hope For Truce
News In 2005, Cisco Systems filed a lawsuit against security researcher Michael Lynn just hours after he gave a presentation at Defcon about how attackers could take over Cisco routers. Historically, there has been a clash between security researchers...
[September 18, 2008, 10:55]
Solving RFID's Image Problems
News Q: You recently filed a second patent-infringement lawsuit against Intermec, relating to some of Symbol's patents. At Cisco, I had a reputation for being "Mr Fix It". Did your experience at Cisco help in any way?
[June 2, 2005, 19:45]
Linux Lab Wants Non-tech Members
News First was the lawsuit involving Unix and Linux brought against IBM by SCO Group, which had been an OSDL founding member but since has discontinued its Linux product. The sponsorship list has since grown to include newer Linux companies such as...
[July 25, 2003, 10:34]
Aruba To Make Legacy Wireless Play
News We could have said, 'Hey, we're going to sell code that runs on Airespace APs,' but we would have been in lawsuit heaven. The programme is designed to help Aruba compete with enterprise wireless vendors such as Cisco, and will allow enterprises to...
[March 9, 2005, 17:40]
Open-source Legal Body Sues Over GPL Violation
News Now, however, the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) is taking a hard-line approach, filing a copyright infringement lawsuit against Monsoon Multimedia for allegedly failing to abide by requirements of the GPL.
[October 1, 2007, 15:08]
Enterasys Sues Rivals For Patent Violation
News Firstly, such a lawsuit focuses industry minds on problems at the company: "It was the first thing I thought of," said Hulleman. Cisco is still earning megabucks, but the rest are struggling," said Hulleman.
[June 27, 2005, 13:40]
