Mealey's (December 15, 2016, 1:04 PM EST) -- SAN JOSE, Calif. — Claims of copyright and patent infringement brought by Cisco Systems Inc. against a competitor in the Ethernet switch market were rejected in a California federal jury’s verdict Dec. 14, with the jury deeming the material not copyright protectable as scénes à faire and finding that Cisco failed to establish any infringement of its asserted command interface patent (Cisco Systems Inc. v. Arista Networks Inc., No. 14-5344, N.D. Calif.)....