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Foras Technologies Campaign Becoming a Who’s Who of Automotive Supply Chains

July 1, 2023

The latest complaint filed by Foras Technologies Limited continues to expand its allegations of infringement in the automotive industry over patents received from HP Enterprise (HPE) in April 2020. Volkswagen, together with suppliers Aptiv and Valeo (2:23-cv-00314), are accused of infringing one of those patents through the provision of Audi and Volkswagen-series automobiles that incorporate the Aptiv Central Driver Assistance Controller (alleged to contain a certain Infineon chipset) and/or the Valeo Front Camera (alleged contain a certain Renesas chipset). Earlier this month, Foras hit Nissan, together with ZF, which case followed complaints filed against Toyota and DENSO (this past April), Kia (in May, for inclusion of components allegedly provided by Mando or HELLA, neither named as a defendant), and BMW, together Robert Bosch (also in May), all of them identifying chipsets from either Infineon or Renesas allegedly incorporated into components of accused automobiles.


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