Lucent slams Cisco with suit
A not so surprising "if you can't Buy-em, Sue-em" ---->
JW@KSC
June 18, 1998,
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Telecommunications giant Lucent filed a patent infringement lawsuit against data kingpin Cisco in a U.S. District Court in Delaware today, citing infringement of eight patents relating to data networking.
The patents cover technologies related to routing devices, frame relay equipment, and asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) gear.
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At issue are technologies that were developed in Lucent's Bell Labs research and development arm and then allegedly were incorporated into some of Cisco's products.
news.com
May 20, 1998
SAN JOSE, California--The window of opportunity for data communications leader Cisco Systems to partner with telecommunications giant Lucent Technologies has closed, according to Cisco's chief
executive.
"We've talked about it very aggressively--it's just not going to happen," said John Chambers, president and chief executive of Cisco, in an interview at the company's headquarters.
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Chambers has long said there was a certain period when his firm could effectively partner with Lucent or Nortel. Both would fill the North American component of Cisco's strategy to form alliances in certain segments of the industry. Evidently, Lucent's recent acquisition binge has left little room for cooperation.
"Our products are overlapping too much and our strategies are overlapping too much," Chambers said.
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But the CEO held out hope that Cisco and Nortel might work together, a partnership that could douse merger talk involving Bay. Nortel, based in Canada, has made it clear that it wants a larger piece of the data networking pie. "I would like to have a better relationship with Nortel," Chambers said.
Cisco already has developed a partnership with Alcatel, a European giant, and the company has covered its bases in Asia via informal work with NEC, Chambers said.
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