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Texas court orders Intel to pay $2.18 billion for two patent infringements
The two patents are owned by VLSI and relate to ways to manage CPU clock speeds and minimum voltages for memory. VLSI has an additional six patent violation claims against Intel, which could amount to $11 billion in damages. Intel denies all allegations and is confident it can avoid these fees through future appeals.
[...] Waco Tribune-Herald and Tom's Hardware note that one of the patents (759) relates to clock speed management and is supposed to represent $1.5 billion in damages, while the other one (373) describes a method to reduce the minimum voltage for memory and totals just $675 million in damages. The other six patent violations are supposed to amount to $7.1 billion, and Intel must also consider future royalties, attorney's fees, interests, procedure costs etc., which could amount to $1.7 billion if VLSI manages to win the entire case.
Another Texas jury weighing in on patents.
Also at Wccftech.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Thursday March 04 2021, @05:09PM (1 child)
I remember soon after Obama was in office, in one of his state of the union messages, he bragged about how the USPTO was granting more patents than ever and how that was a sign of innovation.
Free clue: patents hinder innovation. That is why they are for limited times. Patents should be for something that actually merits such protection.
The thing about landline phones is that they never get lost. No air tag necessary.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 04 2021, @08:06PM
Well I guess this gets into the difference between invention and innovation.