A COMPANY NAMED Genesis should know the difference between the beginning and the end. And when Genesis Microchip Inc. beat back its rival MStar Semiconductor Inc. at the International Trade Commission in 2004, it certainly seemed like the grand finale of a costly legal battle.
After a 17-month investigation, the ITC found that a competing chip made by Taiwan-based MStar infringed Genesis’s patent. The commission awarded Genesis, which is based in Silicon Valley, its ultimate prize: a four-page exclusion order directing U.S. Customs and Border Protection to turn away all offending products. Shut out of the multi-million dollar U.S. market, MStar’s fortunes looked bleak.
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