CENTRIPETAL NETWORKS, INC. v. CISCO SYSTEMS, INC.

2021-1888.

38 F.4th 1025 (2022)

CENTRIPETAL NETWORKS, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee v. CISCO SYSTEMS, INC., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.

Decided: June 23, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul J. Andre , Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, Menlo Park, CA, argued for plaintiff-appellee. Also represented by James R. Hannah , Lisa Kobialka , Hannah Yunkyung Lee ; Christopher Cotropia , Bey & Cotropia PLLC, Richmond, VA; Alan J. Heinrich , Andrei Iancu , Irell & Manella LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Philip J. Warrick , Washington, DC; Blair A. Silver , Banner & Witcoff, Ltd., Washington, DC.

Mark Christopher Fleming , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Boston, MA, argued for defendant-appellant. Also represented by Sofia Caroline Brooks, I , Annaleigh E. Curtis , William F. Lee , Courtney C. Merrill ; Heath Brooks , Thomas Saunders , Washington, DC; Thomas Gregory Sprankling , Palo Alto, CA; Matthew Christopher Gaudet , L. Norwood Jameson , Duane Morris LLP, Atlanta, GA.

Robert P. Taylor , RPT Legal Strategies PC, San Francisco, CA, for amici curiae Alliance of U.S. Startups and Inventors for Jobs, Innovation Alliance.

Andrew John Pincus , Mayer Brown LLP, Washington, DC, for amicus curiae High Tech Inventors Alliance. Also represented by Carmen Longoria-Green .

Before Dyk, Taranto, and Cunningham, Circuit Judges.


Appellant Cisco Systems, Inc. ("Cisco") appeals from the judgment of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia holding that Cisco willfully infringed claims 9 and 17 of U.S. Patent No. 9,203,806 ("the '806 patent"); claims 11 and 21 of U.S. Patent No. 9,560,176 ("the '176 patent"); claims 18 and 19 of U.S....

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