These Cisco-created features and implementations are incorporated by Arista in their entirety into Arista’s products.Systems integrator Accenture is expanding its proprietary procurement system through a deal with software giant SAP under which Accenture will incorporate SAP's Ariba sourcing application into Accenture's procurement solution.Īccenture, a long-time SAP partner, will leverage the Ariba technology to expand its Procurement-as-a-Service offerings for its clients, the two companies announced Wednesday. “They were patented by individuals who worked for Cisco and are now at Arista, or who at Cisco worked with executives who are now at Arista. “None of the implementations are incorporated in industry standards,” Chandler writes. In Chandler’s blog post, Cisco identified 12 product features covered by 14 patents that Arista is said to have violated. It's not the Cisco I knew." Patent infringement But CEO Jayshree Ullal, a former Cisco executive, said, "I'm disappointed at Cisco's tactics.
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+ HISTORY: Remember When Cisco Sued Apple over the iPhone Name? +Īrista said it just became aware of the suits and had not yet had a chance to review the complaints in detail. Arista’s shortcutting to get to market and win share.Īccording to a blog posted by Cisco General Counsel Mark Chandler, Cisco has only sued a competitor less than a handful of times in the last 13 years.
Arista’s shortcutting to get to market and win share.” It was a deliberate, brazen and blatant intellectual property violation in order to gain competitive advantage in the marketplace. “It was a deliberate, brazen and blatant intellectual property violation in order to gain competitive advantage in the marketplace. “This is not an accident but a strategy,” says a source familiar with the matter. The second suit is for extensive copying of Cisco’s user manuals and command line structures, right down to the grammatical errors within them. One suit is for patent infringement, which charges Arista with violating 14 Cisco patents for 12 features in the Arista EOS operating system. Cisco today filed two lawsuits against data center switch competitor Arista Networks for allegedly violating its intellectual property.
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