Intel Nixes Second VLSI Patent Underlying $2 Billion Verdict

Intel Corp. and Patent Quality Assurance LLC convinced an administrative tribunal to cancel the second of two patents behind one of the nation’s largest ever patent infringement verdicts.

The US Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board ruled Tuesday that all 16 claims from VLSI Technology LLC’s US Patent No. 7,523,373 were obvious in light of previously granted patents and patent application publications.

Jurors in Waco, Texas, found that Intel infringed it and another semiconductor patent belonging to VLSI at the end of a March 2021 trial. The jury concluded that Intel owed VLSI $2.18 billion, with $1.5 ...