Cisco Told to Pay $23.5 Million Over Hacker-Security Patents

Cisco Systems Inc., the biggest maker of networking equipment, was ordered by a jury to pay more than $23.5 million to a nonprofit research center for infringing network-surveillance patents designed to identify hacking attacks on computer systems (SRI International v. Cisco Systems Inc.Jury Verdict).

Jurors in federal court in Wilmington, Delaware, concluded May 12 that San Jose, California-based Cisco used technology owned by SRI International, the former research arm of Stanford University, without permission. The panel rejected Cisco’s arguments that it didn’t infringe or that the two at-issue patents weren’t valid.

Officials of Menlo Park, California-based SRI sought ...