Nixed VLSI Patent Claim Challenged by Intel Revived on Appeal

VLSI Technology LLC convinced the Federal Circuit to partly overturn an administrative tribunal’s decision that invalidated all of the patent claims challenged by Intel Corp. in one part of their ongoing multifront IP fight.

In a precedential decision, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit wrote that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board must reconsider one claim that it knocked out in US Patent No. 7,247,552, which covers integrated circuit technology. The tribunal erred in how it construed the phrase “used for electrical interconnection,” the three-judge panel said. It left in place the PTAB’s invalidation of ...