implications
If you look at it another way around and consider it a business case, what are the business implications for you, and how you are going to protect your company one step ahead?
No matter what's happening, it happens, not only between Huawei and Cisco - many similar cases in this planet. I do agree that all Cisco wants is the future market share as the bottom line is always about the market share in business world.Intellectual Property creates the barriers to entry, thus the company holding IP can gain market share as much as possible. It seems to be called non-marketing strategy.
The trading fight about softwood lumber between Canada and USA, banana war between EU and NAFTA, and more ...
If the other Chinese companies can learn from this case, it would be good for them.