Cisco Files Patent Suit Against Chinese Telecom Company

Cisco Systems said that it filed a lawsuit against Huawei Technologies, one of the biggest telecom equipment providers in China, alleging that the growing company has copied, misappropriated and infringed on Cisco's intellectual property in its rival line of low-cost networking routers. Cisco contends that Huawei and its U.S. subsidiaries Huawei America and FutureWei have copied the user interface, user manuals and source code used in Cisco's routers, which route packets of data over corporate networks and the Internet.