U.S. District Judge Henry Morgan Jr. last week found that Cisco Networks violated four patents held by Centripetal Networks. The small network security firm had demonstrated to Cisco technology that Cisco demonstrated to them. The judge was not amused because Cisco’s tactics looked like bait-and-switch, too. Cisco lost the case to the tune of at least $2.6 billion in damages in what a judge called “a significant win for all small, innovative companies” that compete with large corporations, such as Cisco.”]
Source: https://www.govinfosecurity.com/blogs/star-witness-in-case-against-cisco-its-own-documents-p-2953