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France Telecom S.A. v. Marvell Semiconductor, Inc.

  1. July 20, 2015

    Marvell Loses Bid for Atty Fees In France Telecom IP Feud

    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.

  2. June 17, 2015

    Marvell's Bid For 'Exceptional' IP Attys' Fees In Jeopardy

    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.

  3. April 16, 2015

    Marvell Semiconductor Wants Attys' Fees In IP Row

    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.

  4. March 03, 2015

    Judge Nixes Jury's $1.7M Award To France Telecom In IP Row

    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.

  5. December 23, 2014

    France Telecom Pushes For New Trial In Coding Patent Row

    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.

  6. October 20, 2014

    France Telecom Fights Marvell's Bid To Invalidate Patent

    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.

  7. October 02, 2014

    Jury Says Marvell Owes France Telecom $1.7M At Patent Trial

    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.

  8. September 30, 2014

    Marvell Faces $10M IP Claim As France Telecom's Trial Closes

    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.

  9. September 24, 2014

    Marvell Shreds France Telecom's Expert In $10M Chip IP Trial

    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.

  10. September 17, 2014

    Marvell Owes France Telecom $10M For Copying IP, Jury Told

    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.