Cisco Axes Patent From Tossed $1.9 Billion Infringement Award

Cisco Systems Inc., Palo Alto Networks Inc., and Keysight Technologies Inc. convinced an administrative tribunal to invalidate portions of a patent underlying a nearly $2 billion patent infringement award that had been set aside on other grounds.

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board nixed key claims from Centripetal Networks Inc.'s US Patent No. 9,917,856, including two that were part of one of the biggest patent damages awards in US history, resulting from Centripetal’s 22-day trial against Cisco Systems Inc. that ended in June 2020. That award was wiped out by an appeals court that ruled that Judge ...