Realtek Patent ‘Bounty’ Antitrust Lawsuit Can Proceed in Part

A federal court in California allowed part of Realtek Semiconductor Corp.'s antitrust suit to proceed against its larger Taiwan-based rival MediaTek Inc. over allegations it paid a patent-assertion entity $1 million twice for filing of a pair of patent infringement suits aimed at Realtek.

Judge P. Casey Pitts in a March 7 order dismissed two of Realtek’s claims against MediaTek, IPValue Management Inc. and IPValue unit Future Link Systems LLC, but allowed Realtek to proceed against at least one of the defendants on eight different legal theories, including violations of federal antitrust law, a false advertising statute, and a California ...