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Cisco cites judge's family stock holdings in attempt to throw out the $2.7 billion patent award

2022/08/15

 
 
On April 5, Cisco Systems Inc told a U.S. appeals court that a $2.7 billion patent award against it should be thrown out because the presiding judge's wife owned stock in the company. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit seemed receptive to Cisco's argument that U.S. District Judge Henry Morgan should have recused himself from the case, though it did not signal how it would rule. The disputed case was a lawsuit started by Centripetal Networks Inc in 2018, alleging that Cisco has infringed its cybersecurity patents, and Morgan as the judge of the first instance ordered Cisco to pay Centripetal over $2.7 billion for infringing the patents willfully plus royalties.
 



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