Shout-Out: Covington Client Tessera Claims IP Victory
With a win at the International Trade Commission as ammunition, Covington & Burling client Tessera Technologies Inc. on Monday reached a global…
December 21, 2017 at 03:21 PM
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With a win at the International Trade Commission as ammunition, Covington & Burling client Tessera Technologies Inc. on Monday reached a global settlement in a wide-ranging patent fight with Broadcom Corp..
The terms of the deal aren't public, but Covington's clients sound awfully pleased.
“This agreement validates the strength and breadth of our semiconductor portfolio, and provides us with a clear path to unlock the value of our innovations with other companies in the semiconductor industry,” said Jon Kirchner, CEO of Tessera parent company Xperi Corp.
In other words, watch out.
Tessera sued Broadcom and some of its customers at the ITC in May 2016, claiming its technology for fabricating modern semiconductor chips was being infringed.
Tessera also sued Broadcom as well as Avago Technologies U.S. Inc. and other Broadcom subsidiaries in federal court in Delaware. In return, Broadcom, represented by Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton with David Sipiora as lead counsel, sued Tessera in Los Angeles federal court.
In addition, there were proceedings in Germany and the Netherlands, and more than a dozen petitions for inter partes review filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
On June 30, 2017, after a week-long hearing, ITC Administrative Law Judge Sandra (Dee) Lord found a key Tessera patent was both valid and broadly infringed by more than 2,100 Broadcom products in seven different technology nodes extending across all of Broadcom's significant product lines.
The Covington litigation team included Robert Haslam, Sturgis Sobin, Michael Plimack, Nitin Subhedar, Christopher Eppich, Laura Muschamp, Dale Rice, Thomas Garten, Daniel Valencia and Matthew Phelps.
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