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Two Juries Weigh In for Netlist
In Case You Missed It
Last week, an Eastern District of Texas jury returned a verdict awarding Netlist a combined $445M for the infringement of two memory patents by Micron Technology in one of several cases between these two parties. The jury also found the infringement to have been willful, but the bulk of its award corresponds to a patent claim that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) canceled last month through inter partes review (IPR). Meanwhile, a Central District of California jury has found both that a provision of a November 2015 Joint Development and License Agreement (JDLA) between Netlist and Samsung required the latter to supply certain products to Netlist “without limitation to” a joint development project between the two and that Samsung’s breach of that provision is material. These findings are key to a multifront patent infringement battle between Netlist and Samsung because the JDLA grants them cross-licenses to each other’s patent portfolios.
May 28, 2024
Proxense Hits Intel, Ups Number of Patents-in-Suit
New Patent Litigation
Proxense, LLC has added a Western District of Texas case against Intel (6:24-cv-00283) to a campaign with suits currently active against Alphabet (Google), Apple, and Microsoft there. District Judge Alan D. Albright has just handed down two claim construction orders, one in the case against Google and the other in the case against Microsoft. A single patent from the five now in suit against Intel appears in those orders, while the other four are new to the campaign. Targeted against Intel is the provision of devices, ranging from processors to wireless adapters, that support Wi-Fi 6 and later, as well as those that provide Trusted Platform Module (TPM) functionality as required by the Microsoft Windows 11 operating systems.
May 25, 2024
Advanced Coding Technologies Hits Google
New Patent Litigation, TPLF
Advanced Coding Technologies LLC (ACT) has added a case against Alphabet (Google) (2:24-cv-00353) to the litigation campaign begun back in April 2022 over a portfolio of patents received from JVCKenwood. The plaintiff describes the three asserted patents—also in suit in the Eastern District of Texas against LG Electronics (LGE) and Samsung—as generally related to “coding and decoding data efficiently”, with infringement allegations highlighting Google Pixel smartphones “that, upon information and belief, encode and/or decode digital video using the AV1 codec using Tensor processors”. According to court documents, ACT is now finalizing a settlement with one of those two prior defendants.
May 12, 2024
SiOnyx Sues Samsung over Smartphone Image Sensors
New Patent Litigation
SiOnyx, LLC, a provider of night vision cameras and low light image sensors and modules, has filed complaints against Samsung in the Eastern District of Texas (2:24-cv-00291) and before the International Trade Commission (ITC) (337-TA-3744). Samsung is alleged to infringe six patents through the provision of certain smartphones, including the Galaxy S23 Ultra and Galaxy Z Flip5, that include Samsung ISOCELL image sensors, targeting features for isolating pixels that allegedly incorporate light-trapping materials.
May 3, 2024
IPValue’s Monterey Research Sues Renesas, Alleged Customer DENSO
New Patent Litigation
Monterey Research, LLC has brought four more patents into the litigation campaign that it began back in November 2019. It has done so through a new Eastern District of Texas suit filed against both DENSO and Renesas Electronics (2:24-cv-00238), DENSO as the alleged customer of the wide array of accused semiconductor devices and integrated circuits, including certain embedded flash memory devices, as well as microcontrollers. Past defendants in this campaign include AMD, Broadcom, Marvell, and Qualcomm, as well as Nanya Technology and STMicro, the cases against which are on the verge of closure after extensive activity before the USPTO over the patents asserted there.
April 13, 2024
Daedalus Prime Sues MediaTek Alone in Latest Complaint
New Patent Litigation
In August 2022, Daedalus Prime LLC, an entity associated with Daedalus Group LLC, launched its sole litigation campaign with a set of actions, one before the International Trade Commission (ITC) against MediaTek, NXP Semiconductors, certain automakers, and certain automaker suppliers; and three filed in the District of Delaware, one centered around each of MediaTek, NXP, and Qualcomm (but naming as defendants subsets of the proposed ITC respondents). Now, the plaintiff has sued MediaTek (2:24-cv-00235) alone, this time in the Eastern District of Texas. The asserted patents, described in the complaint as “relate[d] to groundbreaking improvements to microprocessor circuitry”, are broadly directed to various aspects of computer circuitry and semiconductor fabrication. The defendant is accused of infringement through the provision of devices containing microprocessors and systems-on-chip (SoCs), including certain Dimensity-series SoCs, that are based on the ARMv8.2 architecture and later.
April 12, 2024
Eireog Innovations Follows Up Campaign Launch by Suing Lenovo
New Patent Litigation
Eireog Innovations Limited has followed up its litigation debut last week—with separate Eastern District of Texas suits against Cisco, Fortinet, IBM, and Palo Alto Networks—by filing a case against Lenovo (2:24-cv-00239) in the same district. The plaintiff asserts the same four patents, again targeting the provision of products, this time ranging from laptops to servers, that incorporate certain AMD and Intel-based CPUs. This campaign appears to be at least the ninth from an Atlantic IP Services Limited plaintiff to hit Lenovo and/or its subsidiary Motorola Mobility.
April 12, 2024
California Court Dismisses “Hotly Pursued” License Claim, Intel Turns Back to Texas
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Intel has been trying to litigate whether an earlier license agreement with Finjan, Inc. provides a defense in the multidistrict campaign of VLSI Technology LLC against it. Last week, Northern District of California Judge Beth Labson Freeman ruled that a forum selection clause in that license agreement requires any claim be brought in Delaware, the court dismissing the lone remaining license claim for forum non conveniens rather than transferring it to the District of Delaware. Also last week, Intel filed a motion to amend its answer, defenses, and counterclaims in the Western District of Texas to add the license defense there.
April 8, 2024
Atlantic IP Pegs Four Defendants Again
New Patent Litigation
Eireog Innovations Limited, an Atlantic Services IP Limited plaintiff, has filed its first cases over the portfolio of about a dozen patents that it received from NXP last November. The defendants are Cisco (2:24-cv-00224), Fortinet (2:24-cv-00225), IBM (2:24-cv-00226), and Palo Alto Networks (2:24-cv-00227), each accused of infringing the same four patents over the provision of products, ranging from blade servers to firewalls, that incorporate certain AMD- and/or Intel-based CPUs. This set of defendants is familiar to Atlantic IP.
April 6, 2024
ACQIS Wins Its Second Infringement Verdict—11 Years After Its First One
Patent Litigation Feature
A Western District of Texas jury has returned an $18M infringement verdict in one of the longest-running patent litigation campaigns still active. On March 22, the jury found that ASUSTek infringed two patents asserted against it by inventor-controlled ACQIS LLC, following an extended back-and-forth over whether a claim construction ruling that led to a judgment of noninfringement in prior litigation should have a preclusive effect here. The verdict in this case is the plaintiff’s second, the first handed down in 2011 in the campaign’s inaugural lawsuit—which was filed all the way back in April 2009.
March 30, 2024