Cisco wins WiFi hand-off patent battle

While most of the world drank its festival of the Christmas meal, appellate judges in the United States died of a long lawsuit against Cisco.

In the seed of eight years, a company called The US military commissar told Borg He had violated its US patent 6,430,395. US military commissar It was created to acquire an Israeli developer called military commissar, and launched the process in 2007.

The military commissar complaint was that Cisco violated the patent by introducing a hand-off from one base station to another as wireless users moved around large networks.

As Reuters reports, a federal jury sided with military commissar in 2011, the allocation of about US $ 64 million in damage (over $ 10 million in interest added by a judge)

The comings and goings of the case because the decision under the Federal Circuit in Washington DC, which ordered a new trial in 2013; then supreme in May 2015, which referred the case to the Federal Court.