Fed Circuit revives patent case against Cisco, brushing aside inventorship defect

A federal appeals court has revived a patent case brought against Cisco Systems Inc by a smaller computing company, saying a judge erred in ruling the asserted patent invalid for failure to list all co-inventors.

In a precedential decision issued on Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit vacated a determination that an Egenera Inc patent relating to data center technology was invalid and remanded the case for further proceedings.

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