Vervain Sues SK hynix, Trials in Its Existing Suits Set for Summer

As its prior cases, against Kingston Technology and Phison Electronics inch closer to summer trials before Western District of Texas Judge Alan D. Albright, Vervain, LLC has filed another complaint in the same district, this one hitting SK hynix (with multiple subsidiaries) (1:26-cv-00259). The seven patents asserted are broadly directed to controlling non-volatile memory systems, with infringement allegations targeting the provision of various flash memory products, including “solid state drives (SSDs) and embedded flash products like eMMC and UFS . . . [that] are managed by a controller chip”. Per the complaint, the accused products include some controllers “made by third-party companies including Phison and Silicon Motion”, though most are SK hynix products “utiliz[ing] proprietary controllers designed by SK itself”.