Amazon Unable to Escape NXP’s Patent Claims in Wi-Fi Chip Suit

Amazon.com Inc. lost its bid for a dismissal of NXP USA Inc.’s allegations that Amazon’s sales of products that contain a certain Wi-Fi chip induces customers to infringe NXP’s patents and contributes to that infringement, according to a Texas federal court ruling.

Judge Rodney Gilstrap, in an opinion Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, denied Amazon’s motion entirely. He also granted in part Best Buy Stores LP’s request for a dismissal of NXP’s allegation that its sales of allegedly infringing products were intentional, but only as to any infringement that occurred before the ...