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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.
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.
The chief judge of the Federal Circuit practically begged members of the American Intellectual Property Law Association on Thursday to put their efforts into educating the public on the U.S. patent system, especially as it relates to pharmaceuticals.
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Kathi Vidal said Thursday that while she thinks the U.S. intellectual property system is working pretty well, the clamoring that sometimes erupts with pushes to change the system isn't helping matters.
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has rejected dual challenges to two cataract surgery patents owned by a Johnson & Johnson unit, determining that Alcon Inc. failed to show any of the claims across the two patents are invalid.