Category: Semiconductors
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Qualcomm, Arm each claim victory in architecture licensing standoff; jury awards $2 damages
The two chipmakers have been engaged in a long-running contractual dispute over use of Arm’s processor architecture IP.
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MIT enforces cloud and IoT chip security patents against Amazon Web Services, Microsoft in U.S.
The asserted quasi-SEPs relate to physical unclonable function (PUF) technology, which has important applications in authentication and cryptography.
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Tesla ‘Sun factory’ apparently at heart of U.S.-Chinese semiconductor technology patent infringement dispute
New York-based Linton Crystal Technologies has sued China’s Zhejiang Jingsheng Mechanical & Electrical Co. over the infringement of seed-lifting technology patents, after the latter reportedly won a bid to supply Tesla with 210mm monocrystalline pullers for its $10.1 billion “Project Crystal Sun” factory.
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Nvidia sued in Eastern District of Texas by PAE holding data center, networking patents originally owned by Avaya
PulseLink Systems is also enforcing former Avaya patents against Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Zoom.
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Adeia appoints former Arm executive as CEO, with licensing into new verticals at the top of her to-do list
Dipti Vachani, who also worked at Intel and Texas Instruments, was previously focused on semiconductor licensing for the automotive and IoT segments.
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Navitas sues Renesas in U.S. district court for infringing gallium nitride patents in response to Japanese company’s trade secret claims
The gallium nitride patent wars gather pace as Navitas files suit in the Eastern District of Texas.
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NVIDIA hit with patent infringement suit over Israeli subsidiary’s AI chip products
XtreamEdge Inc. and Concurrent Ventures LLC have sued NVIDIA and Mellanox in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California over the infringement of five of their patents related to data processing.
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Wendy’s, Gap, and other merchants hit in Texas PAE campaign asserting ex-Cypress Semiconductor patents
Near Field Electronics is targeting digital payments at a time when point-of-sale devices are becoming a patent hotspot.
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USPTO Director orders PTAB to reconsider invalidity finding for Pictiva patent at center of $191M damages claim against Samsung
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board and an Eastern District of Texas jury came to opposing conclusions about the validity of the PAE’s OLED patent.
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Korean monetization platform behind Pantech SEP campaigns targets Hisense, TCL with display patents from Asian tech companies
FairLight Innovations LLC is suing the two Chinese companies in the Eastern District of Texas.