July 20, 2015
A California federal judge on Friday denied Marvell Semiconductor Inc.'s bid for attorneys' fees in France Telecom SA's $1.7 million patent infringement suit against the chipmaker, saying the litigation was hard-fought, not exceptionally frivolous nor unreasonable.
June 17, 2015
A California federal judge said Wednesday that he'll likely deny Marvell Semiconductor Inc.'s bid for attorneys' fees in France Telecom SA's patent-infringement suit against the chipmaker, saying that even though he overturned a jury's $1.7 million verdict for France Telecom he doesn't think the case was exceptional.
April 16, 2015
Six weeks after a California federal judge ruled that a jury was wrong to grant $1.7 million to France Telecom SA in a patent suit against Marvell Semiconductor Inc., Marvell Semiconductor made a bid on Wednesday to recover attorneys' fees and some money it spent defending itself in the case.
March 03, 2015
A California federal judge on Monday decided a jury wrongly granted $1.7 million to France Telecom SA in its suit against Marvell Semiconductor Inc. over an error correction coding patent, because there wasn't enough evidence of direct infringement, although he refused to declare the patent invalid.
December 23, 2014
France Telecom SA urged a California federal court on Friday to grant it new trail in its infringement suit against Marvell Semiconductor Inc. over an error correction coding patent, arguing that a jury's recent $1.7 million award to the company doesn't compensate for Marvell's alleged infringement.
October 20, 2014
France Telecom SA fought back Monday against Marvell Semiconductor Inc.'s bid to invalidate a data correction patent after a $1.7 million jury verdict against Marvell, calling up its intellectual property expert to tell a California federal judge that the invention contains more than a mathematical formula.
October 02, 2014
A California federal jury has determined that Marvell Semiconductor Inc. infringed a France Telecom SA patent on the error-correction code used in many mobile phone chips, but that the infringement wasn't willful, and ordered Marvell to pay $1.7 million in damages.
September 30, 2014
France Telecom SA slammed chipmaker Marvell Semiconductors Inc. as it wrapped its two-week patent infringement trial Tuesday, telling a California federal jury in closing arguments that Marvell should pay roughly $10 million for signing deals to supply mobile devices with 3G chips that infringed an error-correction patent.
September 24, 2014
Attorneys for Marvell Semiconductor Inc. tore into France Telecom SA's damages expert before a California federal jury Wednesday, suggesting that he ignored key factors about Marvell's financial health when he concluded that Marvell should pay $10 million for infringing a France Telecom patent in its 3G cellphone chips.
September 17, 2014
Marvell Semiconductor Inc. should pay roughly $10 million in damages for willfully infringing a France Telecom SA patent on the error-correction code used in many mobile phone chips, France Telecom told a California federal jury Wednesday at the opening of its trial against Marvell.