Cos. Pay Big To Settle Patent Fights With Rivals

By Erin Coe

Law360, New York (January 29, 2010, 7:36 PM ET) -- Facing tighter budgets and a teetering economy, many technology and medical companies opted to shell out some gigantic settlement payments in 2009 to forgo waging potentially more expensive and time-draining patent litigation battles against industry rivals.

Computer chip giant Intel Corp. handed smaller rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. a staggering $1.25 billion payment to put an end to their patent and antitrust fight, while Boston Scientific Corp. and Medtronic Inc. threw hundreds of millions of dollars at competitors in the stent market to resolve patent infringement...
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