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A Newer PACT XPP Entity Sues Intel over Patents from Portfolio Previously at Issue Against Altera, Avnet, and Xilinx
New Patent Litigation
PACT XPP Schweiz AG has filed suit against Intel (1:19-cv-00267), asserting a dozen patents generally related to various aspects of multi-core chip operation. The complaint targets a range of Intel products, including Intel Core and Intel Xeon processors “with Sandy Bridge and above microarchitectures”, as well as any “other processors incorporating ring bus architecture”, Intel processors with Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0, and others. The plaintiff is a Swiss entity, formed as “Scientia Sol Mentis AG” in July 2016, that changed to its current name roughly two years later. It received the patents-in-suit as part of a larger transaction of assets from PACT XPP Technologies AG, which asserted other patents from among those now held by PACT XPP Schweiz against Altera (subsequently acquired by Intel), Avnet, and Xilinx in a campaign running from December 2007 to mid-December 2015.
February 7, 2019
PACT XXP Technologies, AG Awarded Enhanced Damages
PACT XXP Technologies, AG’s (PACT) lawsuit against Xilinx and Avnet concluded last week with an enhanced judgment in favor of PACT. On May 21, 2013 a jury entered a verdict of just under $15.4 million in favor of PACT in a patent infringement case against Xilinx and Avnet. In a ruling made last week, the Court entered a judgment enhancing damages by $23.1 million and awarded PACT attorney’s fees, interest, and costs. PACT originally accused Xilinx and Avnet of infringing two PACT patents (6,119,181; 6,338,106) through their sale of Xilinx-branded Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) chips. The jury upheld the validity of the patents-in-suit and found Xilinx was liable for willful infringement. After the jury’s verdict, PACT argued that it is entitled to an ongoing royalty for Xilinx’s and Avnet’s ongoing infringement of the asserted patents in lieu of a permanent injunction. That issue was severed into a separate case and the parties were ordered to schedule a mediation to attempt to negotiate a license. PACT , a company based in Munich, Germany, is an early developer of “coarse grained” technology used in modern FPGAs and is not currently involved in any other infringement suits. 2:13cv00691
September 12, 2013