University of California Can’t Press Fraud Claims in Patent Feud

The University of California waived rights to three patents for titanium cooling technology when it sold shares of a firm co-founded by a former researcher to a company it later sued for infringement, a federal judge ruled, tossing the university’s fraud allegations against the former researcher.

Judge William H. Orrick, in an order issued Tuesday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, said that even if former researcher Payam Bozorgi “or someone else misrepresented that the patents-in-suit were not included” in Boyd Corp.’s acquisition of the company Bozorgi co-founded with two professors, “negligently crediting that ...