Two and a half years ago, Cisco Systems Inc. declared IP war on networking rival Arista Networks Inc.

Cisco general counsel Mark Chandler announced on his blog “official action to stop Arista’s brazen misappropriation of the fruits of our engineers’ labor.” He listed 14 patents that Arista was allegedly infringing and called out copyright infringement that was “a strategy, not an accident.”

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