A U.S. appeals court this week reopened VLSI Technology's patent lawsuit against Intel, reports Reuters. The decision reverses an earlier finding of no infringement and sends the dispute back to a jury, which again extends a multi-billion-dollar legal battle between the companies.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit set aside a 2024 decision by Judge Beth Freeman from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, who had concluded that Intel's processors did not violate VLSI's 8,566,836 patent which covers a method for measuring maximum CPU frequency in a multi-core CPU and using that data to decide which core runs which task.
