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Intellectual Property

Jan. 22, 2010

Cisco Reaches Settlement

Cisco reached a confidential settlement with John Ward Jr., the second of two lawyers who filed complaints over accusations posted on in-house counsel Rick Frenkel's Patent Troll Tracker blog.

By Craig Anderson

Daily Journal Staff Writer

The final chapter of the Patent Troll Tracker case, in which two Texas patent attorneys sued San Jose-based Cisco Systems and its former in-house counsel for defamation, was written last week.

Cisco reached a confidential settlement with John Ward Jr., the second of two lawyers who filed complaints over accusations posted on in-house counsel Rick Frenkel's Patent Troll Tracker bl...

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