December 05, 2023
After the Federal Circuit vacated a $2.18 billion verdict against Intel Corp. in a patent dispute with VLSI Technology LLC, Intel told a Texas federal judge that the ruling means a new trial is also needed in a $948 million case over a different VLSI microchip patent.
December 01, 2023
U.S. District Judge Alan Albright has scheduled a post-trial conference with Intel Corp. and microchip patent licensing outfit VLSI Technology LLC for Dec. 11 after VLSI sought entry of a final judgment on a Texas federal jury's year-old $949 million patent infringement verdict against Intel.
May 23, 2023
Intel is once again accusing a rival chipmaker of hatching a "patent monetization scheme" with a New York hedge fund in order to dispose of its "overabundance of patents" — and alleging that a top lawyer at Irell & Manella used "a conscious and deliberate appeal to the jury's prejudices and passions" to land a nearly billion-dollar verdict in Texas federal court last year.
December 22, 2022
Patent owners won relatively modest damages awards in their infringement battles in 2022, marking a departure from the massive verdicts and judgments handed down by juries and judges over the previous two years.
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.
November 15, 2022
A federal jury in the Western District of Texas on Tuesday hit Intel Corp. with a nearly $949 million verdict for infringing a VLSI patent for microchip technology, handing the patent licensing company another whopping verdict in its ongoing fight with the chipmaker.
November 07, 2022
The fourth round of a multibillion-dollar dispute between Intel and VLSI over the licensing company's microchip technology patents got underway Monday in Austin, Texas, repeating themes attorneys raised in April during an earlier trial that was thwarted by COVID-19.
November 03, 2022
A fourth trial kicks off in Austin next week in a multibillion-dollar legal war between VLSI Technology and Intel over the licensing company's microchip technology patents. Here's a look at that case — plus all the other major intellectual property matters on deck in the coming week.
November 02, 2022
VLSI Technology LLC says it doesn't want jurors next week to hear certain alleged "facts" in its infringement case against Intel, like how much the company paid for the patent it now wants Intel to pay $1 billion for infringing, or that the company has "nothing to do" with the Austin researchers who developed the information processing technology at issue.
May 17, 2022
U.S. District Judge Alan Albright of the Western District of Texas on Tuesday scheduled a November trial date in a billion-dollar computer chip lawsuit against Intel brought by a patent licensing company after last month's in-person trial was cut short by multiple positive COVID-19 tests.