Cisco settles with Huawei

Cisco Systems Inc. agreed July 29, 2004 to settle its patent lawsuit that charged Chinese rival Huawei Technologies copied Cisco code and documentation for its routers and switches without permission. The lawsuit, filed in January 2003 in U.S. District Court in Marshall, Texas, asserted Huawei and two U.S.-based subsidiaries not only copied protected parts of Cisco technology but also infringed on at least five patents.