February 18, 2026
A California federal judge won't grant Taiwanese semiconductor maker MediaTek Inc. a win in a lawsuit from Taiwanese competitor Realtek accusing the former of colluding with other companies to harass Realtek with bogus patent cases, saying a Texas federal judge's ruling that denied Realtek sanctions in a case there didn't mean the baselessness of the case couldn't be relitigated.
March 25, 2025
Taiwan's Realtek Semiconductor Corp. lost its bid in California federal court to punish a pair of patent-holding companies for "wasting party and judicial resources" in an antitrust lawsuit over a licensing deal and a series of purportedly sham patent suits in Texas.
March 10, 2025
A California federal judge on Friday dismissed Realtek Semiconductor's claims that MediaTek and two other companies conspired to restrain trade through a series of sham patent suits, while keeping claims tied to two 2021 federal cases in Texas that he said Realtek plausibly alleged to be baseless.
November 14, 2024
A pair of litigation businesses want a California federal court to punish a Taiwanese chipmaker for responding to a patent lawsuit with "frivolous," "meritless" and "nonsensical" antitrust allegations surrounding use of a "bounty" to encourage litigation.
August 20, 2024
Litigation business Future Link says the latest version of an antitrust lawsuit in California federal court from Taiwanese chipmaker Realtek over claims of a conspiracy with a different Taiwanese chipmaker to fund purported "patent troll" lawsuits is just more "litigation over litigation."
May 06, 2024
A California federal judge has found that Taiwanese chipmaker Realtek can't use the federal courts to sue one of its major rivals for allegedly using a "bounty" to fund "patent troll" litigation against it because that doesn't break any federal antitrust laws.