Category: Realtek
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$1 million bounty for suing patent licensee’s rivals may be lawful owing to Noerr-Pennington doctrine, anti-SLAPP statute: U.S. court
Context: The Northern District of California has become a particularly popular venue for bringing antitrust claims that involve patent litigation and/or licensing. Its judges are considered more receptive to expansive antitrust ideas, and less patentee-friendly, than those in other districts. But since FTC v. Qualcomm, which was overturned on appeal, patent-related antitrust claims have typically…