April 30, 2024
Intel has managed to turn the tide on litigation where it had faced the daunting possibility of owing VLSI Technology more than $3 billion for infringing microchip patents, with the tech company winning patent invalidations and a large verdict do-over. Here's a look at where the multifaceted litigation between the companies stands.
November 21, 2023
Microchip patent licensing outfit VLSI has asked U.S. District Judge Alan Albright to get around to a decision on the company's efforts to score a new trial after a Texas federal jury cleared Intel of allegations in its $3 billion patent case more than two years ago.
November 23, 2022
VLSI Technology has won more than $3 billion in patent infringement verdicts against Intel Corp. in a Texas federal court so far, but those victories account for just a portion of their cross-country and international feud over chip patents. Here, Law360 takes a closer look at the global litigation and lays out the fights in each forum.
July 07, 2021
The U.S. Supreme Court will be deciding later this year whether to take up a highly controversial patent eligibility case, while a California federal court mulls whether discretionary denial precedent at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board is legal. Here are five cases in patent attorneys' sights for the rest of the year.
June 24, 2021
Intel told a Texas federal judge Wednesday its win over VLSI in a closely watched chip-patent trial should remain intact, saying VLSI didn't object at trial to the many alleged problems it's brought up afterward.
May 28, 2021
VLSI has moved for a new trial after a Western District of Texas jury found last month that Intel didn't infringe its chip patents and rejected its request for $3 billion in damages, saying Intel "directly violated black-letter law" throughout the trial.
April 21, 2021
Intel was cleared of liability on Wednesday in a closely watched infringement trial when a Texas jury rejected patent holder VLSI Technology's claim for $3 billion, evening the score in a series of chip technology disputes between the two companies.
April 20, 2021
Patent holder VLSI made its final argument Tuesday that Intel owes $3 billion for allegedly infringing chip-voltage-regulation technology, telling a Texas federal jury Intel's witnesses contradicted themselves at moments they weren't "getting the script right."
April 15, 2021
Intel brought two electrical engineers to a Texas federal courtroom Thursday to testify that its chips' circuitry doesn't match patents for which VLSI wants a jury to award infringement damages of $3 billion.
April 14, 2021
Intel owes $3 billion for allegedly infringing two chip-technology patents, an economics consultant for VLSI told a Texas federal jury Wednesday as the patent holder seeks what would be a record verdict dwarfing its recent $2 billion win against the tech giant.