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To: zbyslaw owczarczyk who wrote (1925)	6/5/2000 6:55:00 PM
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Alcatel Units Sue Cisco for Stealing Communications Patents By Anna Marie Stolley San Jose, California, June 5 (Bloomberg) -- Cisco Systems Inc. is being sued by two units of Alcatel SA that claim the No. 1 maker of computer-networking equipment is violating patents for data communications networks and telecommunications technology. In a lawsuit filed June 1 in federal court in Sherman, Texas, Alcatel USA Inc, a telecommunications unit of Alcatel, Europe's second-biggest phone-equipment maker, says Cisco is violating its patent for connecting input and output optical signals on fiber- optic cables. The lawsuit also contends that Cisco's recently acquired subsidiary, Monterey Networks Inc., raided Alcatel for personnel, including key employees who have ``intimate knowledge'' of confidential information regarding Alcatel's products and business. Alcatel claims Cisco stole trade secrets and copyrighted computer program information. ``Cisco's conduct was knowing, intentional, willful, and deliberate,'' according to the lawsuit, which requests damages, punitive damages and that a judge order Cisco to stop its allegedly illegal conduct. In another lawsuit, filed May 31 in federal court in Los Angeles, Alcatel's Calabasas, California-based Alcatel Internetworking Inc. unit contends Cisco stole several patented inventions for routing information in communications networks. Alcatel ``has suffered, is suffering, and will continue to suffer injury and damages for which it is entitled to relief,'' the unit claims in the lawsuit, which requests damages and that a judge order Cisco to stop infringing Alcatel's patents. Officials from the San Jose, California-based Cisco were not immediately available for comment. Shares of Cisco fell 1 1/8 to 63 1/4 on the Nasdaq Stock Market Alcatel's American depositary receipts, which represent one ordinary share, rose 5/16 to 61 3/4 on the New York Stock Exchange.