U.S. Patent Office Rules in Intel’s Favor for $2.18 Billion VLSI Patents Case
The U.S. Patent Trial and Appeals Board (PTAB) this week ruled in Intel’s favor, invalidating one of VLSI’s patents central to a $2.18 billion patent infringement ruling from 2021. being Reuters. This important decision Invalidation of another VLSI patent This was part of the same ruling in May.
Back in 2021, a Waco, Texas district judge in favor of VLSI ordered it to pay $2.18 billion in patent infringement. 1.5 billion of which he has patents developed by SigmaTel. Frequency management patent (‘759’)$675 million for products from Freescale Memory voltage reduction method patent (‘373’). Intel appealed this decision, but was unable to reverse the decision in August 2021, so Intel turned to the PTAB to invalidate both patents.
“We notice [Intel] “Overwhelming evidence has established that the challenged claims are unpatentable,” states the U.S. Board of Patent Trial and Appeals decision.
A Board of Patent Trial and Appeal decision may exempt Intel from paying VLSI for infringing the 759 and 373 patents. Meanwhile, VLSI, which has filed numerous patent infringement lawsuits against Intel, now has the right to appeal the PTAB’s decision to the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Intel and VLSI have been involved in large ongoing litigation in numerous courts both in the United States and abroad. VLSI alleges that Intel infringed 19 patents originally filed by Freescale, SigmaTel and NXP. Some of these claims have been dismissed by jury decision, while some of these cases remain unresolved.
Back in December 2022, the companies agreed to settle a $4 billion patent dispute in Delaware. But in November 2022, a federal jury in Texas ruled that Intel had to pay nearly $949 million in damages for violating his VLSI provisions. 7,242,552 This patent covers techniques designed to mitigate problems caused by stress on bond pads.
Intel appears to have won its legal dispute with VLSI, but the battle is far from over.
