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Jury orders Cisco to pay $70 million in patent case Mar 22nd 2013, 18:50 Tweet Share this Email Print Related News Insight: Nation-states enter contentious patent-buying business Wed, Mar 20 2013 Judge will not suspend Apple Siri patent case vs. Samsung Fri, Mar 8 2013 Jury orders J&J unit to pay $8.3 million in metal hip trial Fri, Mar 8 2013 Judge cuts Apple award vs Samsung, sets new damages trial Fri, Mar 1 2013 Dish awarded $4.9 million in ESPN licensing dispute Thu, Feb 28 2013 Analysis & Opinion SCOTUS to class action bar: You can't stipulate out of federal court Presidential aloofness, a patent rush, and disclosing Washington corruption A Cisco office is pictured in San Diego, California November 12, 2012. Credit: Reuters/Mike Blake By Dan Levine and Erin Geiger Smith Fri Mar 22, 2013 2:50pm EDT (Reuters) - Cisco Systems Inc committed fraud against patent licensor XpertUniverse Inc in an intellectual property dispute, a jury found on Friday, ordering the networking company to pay $70 million in damages, according to court filings. The verdict was delivered in a Delaware federal court. "We are surprised and extremely disappointed with the jury's verdict," Cisco said in an emailed statement. The company said it was "confident" its conduct was appropriate and would pursue an appeal if the judge leaves the verdict intact. XpertUniverse developed a technology to help improve response time for customers seeking help from large organizations, which Cisco expressed an interest in commercializing, according to court filings. However, XpertUniverse claimed that Cisco fraudulently induced it to share trade secrets and other intellectual property, with the promise that Cisco would not disclose them. But Cisco was filing several patent applications in its own name based on XpertUniverse's IP, the lawsuit said. The jury also found on Friday that Cisco violated two XpertUniverse patents, and awarded an additional $34,000 in damages on those claims. In a court filing this week, Cisco told U.S. District Judge Richard Andrews in Wilmington that "no evidence exists from which the jury could find in favor of XU on either its fraudulent concealment or patent claims." XpertUniverse attorney Charles Cantine of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP said the company was "obviously very happy" with the verdict. The case in U.S. District Court, District of Delaware is XpertUniverse Inc. vs. Cisco Systems Inc., 09-157. (Reporting by Dan Levine in San Francisco and Erin Geiger Smith in New York; Editing by Bernadette Baum) Related Quotes and News Company Price Related News Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. For more information on our comment policy, see http://blogs.reuters.com/fulldisclosure/2010/09/27/toward-a-more-thoughtful-conversation-on-stories/ Comments (0) Be the first to comment on reuters.com. Add yours using the box above.

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