Cisco Systems victorious In Multimillion Dollar Patent Dispute

Cisco Systems has won a patent dispute that reversed a $64 million judgment against the San Jose-based networking giant. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit stated that Cisco exam dumps was not liable for directly infringing on a patent held by Commil USA LLC for WiFi technology, according to Reuters. The suit spent eight years in litigation and included a stop at the U.S. Supreme Court in May, where the case was sent back to the Federal Circuit.

The Recorder initially reported the judgment was worth $74 million due to interest penalties added to the initial reward. The patent in question was for a method to help send wireless signals over a large area with multiple access points.

The patent never had anything to do with our products and the millions of dollars spent defending this unmeritorious suit are a travesty," Cisco general counsel Mark Chandler told Reuters.

Texas-based Commil sued Cisco in 2007 after buying the patent from Israeli company, Commil Ltd. Cisco, in turn, accused Commil of being a patent troll.

According to United Patents, 3,050 patent lawsuits (tech and non-tech, combined) were filed in the first half of the year with almost 68 percent of those filed by patent trolls or, as United Patents more politely calls them, "non-practicing entities” (NPEs).

NPEs are companies that do little else but sue for patent infringement, many are based in Texas where there are sympathetic judges and juries that have turned patent lawsuits into a cottage industry.

Cisco designs, manufactures and sells networking products and services related to the communications and information technology.

In 2011, a federal jury Texas found that Cisco induced infringement by encouraging customers to use Cisco products that infringe Commil's patent.

A Washington, D.C.-based Federal Circuit ordered a new trial in 2013 claiming that Cisco should have been able to mount a defense based on the belief that Commil's patent was invalid. In May of this year, the U.S. Supreme Court in May said that defense was not legitimate and sent the case back to the Federal Circuit.