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Alidouble Reworks Complaint Against TSMC
New Patent Litigation
Last December, Alidouble Inc. filed suit against TSMC targeting the manufacture of backside-illuminated (BSI) image sensors, including some made for OmniVision. That complaint was dismissed without prejudice in mid-March. Now, Alidouble has refiled a new version of that complaint (2:22-cv-00298), again in the Eastern District of Texas and asserting the same four patents, this time with the help of new litigation counsel in a pleading that lays out a rejiggered articulation of TSMC’s alleged US operations, identifying an Enterprise 1, an Enterprise 2, and an Enterprise 3—involving OmniVision, ONsemi, and/or others—via which BSI sensors manufactured by TSMC were provided in the US. TSMC, however, remains the only defendant named.
August 18, 2022
Opaque International Connections Surround New Texas NPE’s Suit Against TSMC
New Patent Litigation
Alidouble Inc. has sued TSMC (2:21-cv-00452) in a new Eastern District of Texas complaint targeting the manufacture of backside-illuminated (BSI) image sensors, including some made for OmniVision, with the accused sensors allegedly incorporated into at least the Apple iPhone 6S and iPhone X. The four patents-in-suit, generally related to semiconductor manufacturing or BSI image sensors, passed from original assignee Tower Semiconductor, an Israeli foundry, through a Hong Kong entity into the Texas plaintiff’s hands.
December 14, 2021