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Title: Intel Wins Jury Trial Over Patent Licenses In $3 Billino VLSI Fight

Link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/05/29/20582...

A Texas jury ruled that Intel may hold a license to patents owned by VLSI
Technology through its agreement with Finjan Inc., both controlled by
Fortress Investment Group -- potentially nullifying over $3 billion in
previous patent infringement verdicts against Intel. Reuters reports: VLSI
has sued Intel in multiple U.S. courts for allegedly infringing several
patents covering semiconductor technology. A jury in Waco, Texas awarded VLSI
$2.18 billion in their first trial in 2021, which a U.S. appeals court has
since overturned and sent back for new proceedings. An Austin, Texas jury
determined that VLSI was entitled to nearly $949 million from Intel in a
separate patent infringement trial in 2022. Intel has argued in that case
that the verdicts should be thrown out based on a 2012 agreement that gave it
a license to patents owned by Finjan and other companies "under common
control" with it. U.S. District Judge Alan Albright held the latest jury
trial in Austin to determine whether Finjan and VLSI were under the "common
control" of Fortress. VLSI said it was not subject to the Finjan agreement,
and that the company did not even exist until four years after it was signed.

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