Presumably this news has already reached most interested readers, but to put a bow on the blog’s trial coverage, the jury’s verdict in VLSI-Intel III broke the existing 1-1 tie in favor of plaintiff VLSI. Yesterday afternoon the jury came back with an infringement verdict on VLSI’s single asserted patent, with a corresponding damages award […]
OK, take two! As readers may recall, the third episode in the VLSI-Intel saga started to go to trial back in April, but was adjourned after just one day of proceedings following a COVID diagnosis on one of the trial teams. But now we’re back. Trial in Case No. 1:19-cv-00977-ADA will begin again, from scratch, this coming […]
Well, that was fast. VLSI-Intel III has been adjourned as of this morning on account of multiple (we think) jurors testing positive for COVID-19. The Court’s resultant message to the parties was along the lines of, “Somewhere down the road we’ll pick another jury.” Judge Albright’s formally promulgated trial procedures have not, as far as we can […]
This post is courtesy of guest author Tim Dewberry. Yesterday Magistrate Judge Gilliland conducted a pre-voir dire conference for the parties in VLSI v. Intel III, slated to start next week in Austin. At the conference Judge Gilliland provided his expectations for the voir dire proceedings, which will occur this coming Monday morning before trial […]
Yes, y’all read that correctly; the parties in VLSI v. Intel are back for round three. Unlike chapters 1 and 2, this episode will be going forward in the Austin Division courthouse. (You’ll recall that the location of the first VLSI-Intel trial was the subject of prior mandamus practice.) Openings are scheduled for 1PM this coming […]
We’ll start off this week with a roundup of last week’s links. Considering there was a full jury trial (albeit a very short one!) in the Waco Division last week, there actually wasn’t an overwhelming amount of media coverage. Perhaps that’s a sign of a maturing Court—i.e., as more jury trials occur in front of […]
To make up for our recent brief layoff, we’ll try to bring you a slightly meatier-than-normal summary of recent happenings in and coverage of the Waco Division. Here’s what we’ve picked up over the last few weeks that’s not related to VLSI-Intel II: ESW-Roku: As we covered a couple weeks back, Judge Albright’s third patent […]
As promised, here’s a comprehensive listing of the other media coverage we were following during the VLSI-Intel II trial, in roughly reverse-chron order: Verdict & Post-Trial Analysis: Scott Graham of Law.com was on the case, as always: Intel Escapes Second VLSI Trial With Zero Damages (subscription required) Cara Salvatore of Law360 covered the verdict, as […]
It’s been a busy couple weeks of non-blog-related stuff around these parts, so we apologize for neglecting y’all. We’ll try to make it up to you with a few posts’ worth of comprehensive lookbacks and mini-summaries. In this post we’ll share our own thoughts about VSLI-Intel II. The next post will cover other media’s coverage […]
As much as we’d love to bring you wall-to-wall coverage of every trial in front of Judge Albright, this latest calendar is getting a bit jammed. So in this post we’re just going to try to hit the highlights of both this past week’s ESW-Roku trial, and next week’s (presumably) forthcoming VLSI-Intel II trial. ESW-Roku: […]