Jury Favors Arista-Landmark Win for Networking Industry
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Arista Networks (NYSE: ANET) today announced that a U.S. jury in the
Northern District of California has found that Arista is not liable for
copyright infringement related to Arista’s use of a small number of
commands similar to those found in Cisco’s Command Line Interface (CLI).
As a result of this ruling, Arista owes no damages to Cisco.
“We would like to thank the jurors and Judge Freeman for their tireless
efforts. Today’s verdict represents an important victory not only for
Arista but for the entire industry,” said Marc Taxay, Senior Vice
President and General Counsel of Arista.
The jury also found that Arista did not infringe the single patent
remaining in the case as well as Cisco’s asserted copyrights in its user
manuals.
About Arista Networks
Arista Networks was founded to pioneer and deliver software-driven cloud
networking solutions for large data center storage and computing
environments. Arista’s award-winning platforms, ranging in Ethernet
speeds from 10 to 100 gigabits per second, redefine scalability, agility
and resilience. Arista has shipped more than ten million cloud
networking ports worldwide with CloudVision and EOS, an advanced network
operating system. Committed to open standards, Arista is a founding
member of the 25/50GbE consortium. Arista Networks products are
available worldwide directly and through partners.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements including, but
not limited to, statements regarding the effectiveness of alternative
product implementations to address the alleged infringement of certain
Cisco patents as well as our ability to continue to provide products to
our customers. All statements other than statements of historical fact
are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements. Forward
looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could
cause actual performance or results to differ materially from those
expressed in the forward looking statements including: the ability of
Arista to import products or related components, the ability of Arista
to develop alternative design implementations that are determined to be
non-infringing the asserted patents, if contested in the ITC or U.S.
Customs, and the ability to obtain favorable determinations by the ITC
or U.S. Customs that such alternative product implementations are not
covered by the ITC remedial orders, as well as other risks stated in our
filings with the SEC available on Arista’s website at www.arista.com
and the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.
Arista disclaims any obligation to publicly update or revise any
forward-looking statement to reflect events that occur or circumstances
that exist after the date on which they were made.
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Source: Arista Networks