CBP Sides with Arista in Cisco Patent Dispute

2017/04/12

The US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has sided with computer networking company Arista in its long-running patent dispute with technology multinational Cisco.
On April 8, Arista released a legal update about the row. Arista said it had sought a ruling from the CBP that the company’s redesigned products no longer infringed Cisco’s patents, US numbers 7,200,145, 6,741,592 and 7,162,537. This would allow Arista to import these networking products into the US. Arista added that the CBP process is “widely” used and that in the International Trade Commission’s (ITC) final determination in the companies’ dispute, the ITC reaffirmed that it was “proper” for Arista to obtain import clearance for its resigned products.

Source: IPR in China