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Comment: Business partnerships at stake in war of words between Cisco and Arista

By Mike Swift ( December 24, 2014, 16:56 GMT | Comment) -- In the wake of Cisco Systems filing patent and copyright lawsuits against Silicon Valley competitor Arista Networks in district court and at the US International Trade Commission, executives at the two companies have engaged in a series of barbed blog posts. Beyond the hostility of the posts, the exchange illustrates the threat to a company's business relationships with customers and partners when the quality of their intellectual property is called into question. The public war of words in recent weeks between Cisco Systems and Arista Networks in the wake of intellectual property litigation filed by Cisco has been ugly. But it is hardly unprecedented in Silicon Valley, particularly between companies whose customers are businesses rather than consumers.  ...

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