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Patent Quality Assurance, LLC v. VLSI Technology LLC

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Case Number:

IPR2021-01229

Case Type:

IPR

Status:

Trial Instituted

Petitioner:

Patent Quality Assurance, LLC

Patent Owner:

VLSI Technology LLC

Tech Center:

2100

  1. April 30, 2024

    Where VLSI-Intel's High-Stakes Patent Battle Stands Now

    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.

  2. December 14, 2023

    PQA Earns Vidal's Wrath For Sanction But Dodges Atty Fees

    U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Kathi Vidal has "strongly admonished" Patent Quality Assurance LLC, one of the companies infamously drawn into misconduct proceedings while challenging a VLSI Technology patent, but refused to issue monetary sanctions like attorney fees.

  3. September 01, 2023

    VLSI Patent Challenger Fights Vidal's Threat Of Sanctions

    After the director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office called out Patent Quality Assurance LLC's conduct during its successful challenge of a VLSI Technology LLC microchip patent tied to a $2.2 billion jury verdict against Intel Corp., PQA suggested that it should not be punished at all since "the landscape of this review has vastly changed."

  4. August 04, 2023

    Vidal Says Challenger To VLSI Patent Needs To Be Punished

    The director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued sanctions on a company that went to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board to challenge a VLSI microchip patent tied to a $2.2 billion jury verdict against Intel, finding that Patent Quality Assurance must be punished for the "misleading" way it described its relationship with a computer engineering professor.

  5. July 19, 2023

    5 Patent Cases To Watch In The Second Half Of 2023

    The Federal Circuit will be reviewing its first en banc patent case since 2018, while the court's members are being sued by its longest-serving judge, who claims that an attempt to oust her is unconstitutional. Here's what you need to know about these and other high-profile patent cases.

  6. June 13, 2023

    PTAB Wipes Out 2nd VLSI Patent From $2.2B Intel Verdict

    The Patent Trial and Appeal Board decided Tuesday that Intel and a company called Patent Quality Assurance had shown that a VLSI microchip patent is invalid, meaning that both patents in a $2.2 billion infringement verdict against Intel have now been invalidated.

  7. June 05, 2023

    PTAB Says Intel's Trial Loss To VLSI Can't Block IPR

    The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has again denied an attempt from VLSI Technology to get Intel kicked out of a challenge to its microchip patent, saying that a Texas federal judge's ruling on invalidity in litigation between the two doesn't preclude the administrative review.

  8. May 25, 2023

    VLSI Loses Rehearing Bid To Kick Intel Out Of PTAB Challenge

    A Patent Trial and Appeal Board panel fully shot down VLSI Technology's newest bid to get Intel removed from a patent challenge initially brought by the now-sanctioned Patent Quality Assurance, holding that VLSI was raising policy fights, rather than patent invalidity concerns.

  9. April 18, 2023

    Vidal Rips Patent Biz For Citing 'Anonymous' Intel Allegations

    The director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has criticized lawyers for a patent licensing business for trying to direct her and the public's attention to what the company described as "an anonymous cover letter" that "contains serious allegations, supported by detailed evidence, of misconduct" involving Intel.

  10. January 13, 2023

    Patent Challenger Says Vidal Imposed Sanctions Too Fast

    A company that was found by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Kathi Vidal to abuse the patent review process is arguing that the director herself broke the law by denying the company a chance to respond to the abuse accusations before ejecting the company from its challenge to a patent attached to a $2.2 billion jury verdict against Intel.

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