Cisco Wins Ruling Against Chinese Firm

In a legal victory for Cisco Systems Inc., a federal judge ordered China’s largest telecommunications equipment maker to stop distributing products that include Cisco’s proprietary technology.

The preliminary injunction by a federal judge in Texas bars Huawei Technologies Co. from selling, importing, exporting or using software that is derived or developed from a part of Cisco’s operating system.

Huawei also was ordered to stop distributing user manuals or help files copied from Cisco’s documentation.

Huawei said it was pleased with the ruling because it already had taken actions to ensure the code and manuals in question had been removed from the company’s products.