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The incoming Trump administration is expected to make several policy changes likely to impact tech transactions. President-elect Donald Trump has promised to reduce regulation and cut federal bureaucracy, which he says have...more
The U.S. technology landscape is poised to experience significant transformations under the second Trump administration. Key sectors such as the semiconductor industry, autonomous vehicles, and digital payments may experience...more
The PTAB denied a petitioner’s motion to compel routine discovery that sought information from a parallel ITC investigation for alleged inconsistent positions taken by patent owner in the IPR. The board found that patent...more
The modern semiconductor industry was born in the 1950s in the United States, and the United States remained the indisputable industry leader for the first few decades of its development. But over the last few decades, the...more
On December 1, the United States Patent and Trademark Office launched the Semiconductor Technology Pilot Program. As part of the Office’s efforts to support the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS)...more
On December 1, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced that it is implementing the Semiconductor Technology Pilot Program, effective immediately, to incentivize intellectual property protection for...more
The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) launched the Semiconductor Technology Pilot Program on December 1, 2023 for patent applications for processes or apparatuses for manufacturing semiconductor devices. Applications...more
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) initiated a program on December 1, 2023 to encourage research, development, and innovation in the semiconductor manufacturing space. The Semiconductor Technology Pilot Program...more
Key Takeaways - To support the CHIPS Act of 2022, the USPTO initiated a pilot program that provides expedited examination of certain patent applications directed to manufacturing semiconductor devices, potentially reducing...more
On November 30, 2023, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced a new pilot program for applicants to freely expedite examinations of applications directed to semiconductor manufacturing, including...more
For the first time in decades, IBM lost its top spot in total number of utility patents granted by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office for 2022, with an almost 50% decline from last year. Samsung Inc. is now the world leader...more
Mask Work Infringement - In analogizing semiconductor chips to traditional areas of copyright law, the legislative history notes that, just as a plagiarist who copies only one chapter of a book may be held liable for...more
This month’s ITC Wrap-Up discusses the Commission’s recent decision to omit certain proposed respondents and to narrow the scope of an investigation from that proposed by the complaint in Certain Semiconductors and Devices...more
In a rare showing of bipartisanship, the U.S. Senate has passed Senate Bill S.1260, the "Endless Frontier Act." Co-sponsored by senators Schumer, Young, Hassan, Collins, Coons, Portman, Baldwin, Graham, Peters, Blunt,...more
Johnstech International sued JF Microtechnology for infringing its patent related to semiconductor contactors for testing integrated circuits. Both companies compete for sales of semiconductor test contactors. A California...more
Addressing for the first time whether real-parties-in-interest (RPIs) are evaluated at the time a petition is filed or at the time of institution for purposes of § 315(b), the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held...more
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit denied a petition for a writ of mandamus requesting transfer of a patent infringement case, finding that the “first-to-file” rule did not warrant transfer because, even though...more
POWER INTEGRATIONS, INC v. SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS - Before Prost, Reyna, and Stoll. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary: An IPR is time-barred under 35 U.S.C. § 315(b) if, at the time of...more
The Board has broad discretion to determine how much weight should be given to inventor testimony, but as long as the testimony does not relate to the inventor’s opinion about the meaning of a claim term, there is no basis...more
In a recent order, the ITC denied a motion to stay after ALJ Bullock found that the balance of the Semiconductor Chips factors weighed against granting the motion. See In re Certain Memory Modules And Components Thereof, Inv....more
The Fuzhou Intermediate People’s Court in China issued a preliminary injunction against Apple in connection with two patents asserted by Qualcomm. This decision, part of a global patent dispute between the parties, comes on...more
There has been so much patent litigation regarding semiconductors over the past 70 years or so that even a brief synopsis would exceed one post. Instead, let’s take a look at the war that the semiconductor industry expected,...more
PATENT CASE OF THE WEEK - In re Power Integrations, Inc., Appeal No. 17-1304 (Fed. Cir. 2018) - In In re: Power Integrations, Inc., the Federal Circuit reversed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (PTAB) rejection of a...more
Since the Supreme Court’s decision in eBay Inc. v. MercExchange, LLC, 547 U.S. 388 (2006), injunctions are an infrequent remedy for patent infringement in federal district courts. Yet, an exclusion order – the functional...more
PTAB Grants-in-Part Motion to Amend Claims, Even Though Federal Circuit Previously Invalidated the Claims - In Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC v. Power Integrations, Inc., IPR2016-01600, Paper 35 (PTAB Feb. 14,...more