Synopsys, Cadence Sue Hilco Over Suits ‘Designed to Harass’ (1)

Synopsys Inc. and Cadence Design Systems Inc. asked a Delaware court to block a patent-monetization company owned by Hilco Global from litigating a rash of cases pending in more than a dozen federal courts against 25 of their customers, part of what they call a “campaign against the semiconductor industry.”

In a complaint filed Nov. 18 and docketed Monday in the US District Court for the District of Delaware, Synopsys and Cadence allege that Bell Semiconductor LLC’s “litigation tactics are designed to harass” their customers in an “effort to force them to accept” the Hilco unit’s “exorbitant valuation” of the ...