May 03, 2023
An Idaho federal judge has imposed an $8 million bond on patent owner Longhorn IP LLC after it alleged memory devices made by Micron Technology Inc. infringe its various semiconductor patents, finding that Micron has supported its bad faith infringement claims enough to trigger a bond provision in a state law against "patent trolls."
September 06, 2022
Idaho's attorney general told a federal court on Tuesday that his office would be moving to defend the constitutionality of a largely untested law passed in Boise to let companies use federal courts in the state to punish so-called patent trolls.