Cisco ordered to pay $1.9bn in US patent infringement case

San Francisco: Networking giant Cisco has been ordered to pay a hefty sum of $1.9 billion in a cybersecurity-related patent infringement case brought by Virginia-based company Centripetal Networks.
The US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on Monday ruled that Cisco infringed four patents.
The case began when Centripetal Networks filed a Complaint against Cisco Systems for infringement of several Centripetal’s US patents in 2018.
US District Judge Henry Morgan found no infringement on a fifth patent.
But for the four other patents, the judge found that the infringement was “ willful and egregious “.
So he multiplied the $756 million in actual damages by 2.5 to a total fine of $1.89 billion which increases to $1.9 billion with interest.