Micron’s Bid Against Netlist Memory Patent Sinks on Appeal (1)

Micron Technology Inc. failed to convince the Federal Circuit that Netlist Inc.'s computer memory patent was invalid.

The Patent and Trial Appeal Board was right to reject Micron’s prior art arguments for US Patent No. 10,489,314, according to an opinion issued Friday in the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. The administrative tribunal didn’t misconstrue the protected method’s “specified data rate” claim, Judge Jimmie Reyna said in the opinion.

Micron also argued the PTAB made an error by requiring the semiconductor company to show a motivation to combine prior teachings on memory modules. But Reyna said Micron ...