University Contends JSR’s Chip-Making Patent Suit Must Be Halted

A New York university system urged the Federal Circuit to kill a Japanese tech firm’s patent suit based on the system’s ownership rights in the underlying patents.

The Research Foundation of the State University of New York said JSR Corp.'s Inpria unit isn’t the sole owner of patents the company is asserting against Lam Research Corp. in a federal court in Delaware. That case shouldn’t move forward because SUNY RF is an “indispensable party” as that term is defined in the rules governing civil procedure in federal courts, SUNY RF said in a mandamus petition filed Wednesday with the US ...