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ticker: "CSCO"
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company_name: "CISCO SYSTEMS, INC."
filed_at: "2025-08-25T23:59:59+00:00"
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# Cisco amends bylaws to add cure process for deficient director nomination notices

## Summary
- Board amended Bylaws on August 21, 2025, effective immediately, adding a cure process for deficiencies in stockholder director nomination notices.
- Amendments include ministerial changes for clarification and consistency in the Bylaws.
- Full text of Amended and Restated Bylaws and a marked version were filed with the SEC as Exhibits 3.2 and 3.3.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000858877-25-000103
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CSCO
- cik: 0000858877
- company_name: CISCO SYSTEMS, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-08-25T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.15
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/858877/000085887725000103/0000858877-25-000103-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/858877/000085887725000103/csco-20250821.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000858877-25-000103.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  CISCO SYSTEMS, INC.: Board amended Bylaws to implement a cure process for deficiencies in director nomination notices and incorporate ministerial clarifications (effective 2025-08-21).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-08-21
  source text: On August 21, 2025, the Board of Directors of Cisco Systems, Inc. (“Cisco”) amended Cisco’s Amended and Restated Bylaws (as amended, the “Amended and Restated Bylaws”), which became immediately effective.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/858877/000085887725000103/0000858877-25-000103-index.htm

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