Early yesterday afternoon the Waco jury of three women and four men returned a verdict in favor of VLSI to the tune of $2.175 billion. The jury rejected Intel’s arguments of noninfringement and awarded$1.5 billion for Intel’s infringement of VLSI’s ’373patent and $675 million for Intel’s infringement of VLSI’s ’759 patent (the latter based on […]
Yesterday marked the last day of the week-long trial that has pitted some of the best patent litigators in the country against each other, fighting over billions of dollars. In the early part of the day, Intel finished its case and VLSI put on its rebuttal case, consisting mostly of its infringement expert Dr. Conte, […]
Here’s a quick update for those of you wondering what’s left in the VLSI v. Intel trial. We’ll have some more substantive content forthcoming, but wanted to get this published while it could still make a difference to those looking to tune in on Monday. Basically, Monday’s going to be the last day for the lawyers to […]
Waco Division business keeps churning on, even while there’s a trial underway. So we wanted to bring you a couple general updates that relate to go-forward procedures in Judge Albright’s patent cases. First, the Court has issued another update to its Order Governing Proceedings for Patent Cases (this time version 3.3). Based on our initial […]
The long-awaited trial continues, and today included the last two live VLSI witnesses. The first was VLSI’s expert witness Dr. Murali Annavaram. Dr. Annavaram’s testimony was designed to present the technical benefits alleged to be delivered by the technologies of the two patents at issue. Most of his testimony involved discussing the two patents and […]
The VLSI-Intel trial is underway (see Mark’s Day 1 writeup), and today’s action was devoted to about 70 minutes of testimony from VLSI inventor David Bearden, with almost the entire rest of the day’s testimony occupied by VLSI’s infringement expert Dr. Tom Conte. VLSI then briefly put on the introductory portions and general qualifications of […]
Things move fast during trial, so we’ll bring you some mini-link roundups during the week specific to VLSI v. Intel, as coverage warrants. For additional first-day coverage, in no particular order we bring you: From Tommy Witherspoon of the hometown Waco Tribune: Waco court hosts billion-dollar patent case against Intel From Bloomberg Law, Matthew Bultman’s […]
The long saga that is VLSI v. Intel (which we have covered extensively here, here, here, and here) finally began its conclusion. Two titans of patent litigation—Bill Lee of WilmerHale and Morgan Chu of Irell & Manella—face off in the most popular patent venue in the country, where billions of dollars are at stake. For […]
The Court has adopted new dial-in credentials to observe voir dire and trial proceedings, as follows: Dial-in: 669-254-5252 Meeting ID: 161 606 4451 Passcode: 186276 Zoom attendees will be automatically muted upon dialing in. Here’s an attempt at a one-touch sequence for those reading the blog on your mobile device: +1 669-254-5252,,1616064451#,,#,,186276# We have also […]
UPDATED FEB. 20 & MAR. 2 Hope all our readers in Texas have held up OK during the deep freeze; we know it’s been very tough for a lot of people. Given the weather-related VLSI–Intel adjournment, there was perhaps less Waco Division-related excitement than we originally expected this week, but we still saw some interesting […]