usaWaferIntel, a major manufacturer, suffered some chip failuresGermanyAfter infringing patents and being banned from selling, it has recentlyItalyMilan filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn California-based R2 Semiconductor’s patent to fight the German ban.
The lawsuit between Intel and R2 began in 2017. At that time, R2 sued Intel in the United States for using its technology in its products, but failed to win the case, and then shifted the battlefield to Europe. In February this year, the Düsseldorf District Court in Germany ruled that some of Intel’s chips infringed and issued an injunction barring the sale, including Intel’s 10th to 12th generation processors, namely Ice Lake, Tiger Lake and Including Alder Lake as well as Intel’s third generation. Processor. Generation Xeon Scalable Processor Ice Lake. Intel is planning to appeal.
The lawsuit filed by Intel in Milan seeks to invalidate the patent granted to R2 by the European Patent Authority in 2020; The patent covers technology used to limit the power used by microchips. If R2’s patent is overturned, according to German law, Intel has the right to claim compensation for losses caused by the ban.
R2 is scheduled to face Intel in another lawsuit in London in April and may win. Third Point, the hedge fund that owns about 75% of R2 and is funding the lawsuits, has indicated that R2 may try to file similar lawsuits in other European countries. If R2 wins, Intel could lose billions of dollars.
R2 also sued Fujitsu and Amazon Web Services (AWS) earlier this month, seeking to block both companies’ ability to use its patented technology in Intel chips.
Intel, which is currently in talks with R2, believes that R2 wants to use lawsuits in the UK, Germany and other European countries to force Intel into an out-of-court settlement. An Intel spokesperson described R2 as a “patent cockroach”. R2 refutes the charge of “patent cockroaches” and argues that its European patents are very different from those successfully challenged by Intel in the United States.
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