Intel Beats Chip-Tech Patent Suit, Aided by Opponent’s Own Words

Intel Corp. escaped a 2019 lawsuit as a federal judge cited a patent holder’s “contradictory positions” on the scope of its invention in ruling the chipmaker’s microprocessors don’t infringe.

PACT XPP Schweiz AG “wants to avoid the impact of what it told” the US Patent and Trademark Office when it convinced the agency during a validity review that US Patent No. 8,471,593 didn’t cover an obvious invention, Judge Joshua D. Wolson wrote in an opinion issued July 26 in the US District Court for the District of Delaware. “Having made specific assertions to the PTO about the scope of its ...