Intel, VLSI War Over Multibillion-Dollar Chip Patent on Appeal

Intel Corp. and VLSI Technology LLC continued to battle out a multibillion-dollar patent infringement case at the Federal Circuit on Friday in a case concerning the validity of VLSI’s computer chip patent.

A three-judge panel at the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit poked holes in both Intel and VLSI’s arguments on whether the Patent Trial and Appeal Board erred in upholding some claims of VLSI’s US Patent No. 8,081,026. The patent is one of several that VLSI sued Intel over in 2018 in Delaware, seeking billions in damages, though the district court case has stalled pending ...