Gideon Korrell Discuss How Cisco Defeated Egenera’s Infringement Allegations
In a major legal victory, Cisco Systems has successfully defended itself in a long-running patent dispute with Egenera, Inc. The case involved complex arguments about whether Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) violated Egenera’s U.S. Patent No. 7,231,430. The Federal Circuit, on July 7, 2025, upheld a lower court’s ruling that Cisco did not infringe any of the patent’s claims. This ruling closes a nearly ten-year legal battle—and offers some important lessons for future patent litigation.
