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Intel wins jury trial over patent licenses in $3 billion VLSI fight
Intel wins jury trial over patent licenses in $3 billion VLSI fight

Reuters

time3 days ago

  • Business
  • Reuters

Intel wins jury trial over patent licenses in $3 billion VLSI fight

May 29 (Reuters) - A Texas federal jury determined on Thursday that Intel (INTC.O), opens new tab may have a license to patents owned by VLSI Technology, boosting Intel's efforts to overturn patent infringement verdicts that awarded VLSI more than $3 billion in damages. The jury agreed with Intel that Fortress Investment Group controls both VLSI and fellow Fortress affiliate Finjan Inc. Intel has argued that Fortress' control of both companies means that the chipmaker's patent license with Finjan also applies to VLSI. A VLSI spokesperson declined to comment other than to confirm the verdict. An Intel spokesperson also declined to comment. VLSI has sued Intel in multiple U.S. courts for allegedly infringing several patents covering semiconductor technology. A jury in Waco, Texas awarded VLSI $2.18 billion in their first trial, opens new tab in 2021, which a U.S. appeals court has since overturned and sent back for new proceedings. An Austin, Texas jury determined that VLSI was entitled to nearly $949 million from Intel in a separate patent infringement trial in 2022. Intel has argued in that case that the verdicts should be thrown out based on a 2012 agreement that gave it a license to patents owned by Finjan and other companies "under common control" with it. U.S. District Judge Alan Albright held the latest jury trial in Austin to determine whether Finjan and VLSI were under the "common control" of Fortress. VLSI said it was not subject to the Finjan agreement, and that the company did not even exist until four years after it was signed. A consortium led by Abu Dhabi's Mubadala Investment Company acquired a majority stake in Fortress last year from Japan-based Softbank Group Corp.

Sunshine Coast teenager who stabbed stepdad 35 times found not guilty of murder
Sunshine Coast teenager who stabbed stepdad 35 times found not guilty of murder

ABC News

time4 days ago

  • General
  • ABC News

Sunshine Coast teenager who stabbed stepdad 35 times found not guilty of murder

A Sunshine Coast teenager who stabbed his stepfather 35 times has been found not guilty of his murder. The now 18-year-old, who cannot be identified as he was 16 at the time, was also found not guilty of the lesser charge of manslaughter by a jury on Wednesday. At the beginning of his Supreme Court trial, the teenager admitted he had caused the man's death in 2022, but argued he was acting in self-defence. After deliberating for less than a day, a jury acquitted him, accepting his version of events. The public gallery was packed with the victim and defendant's family members, including the teenager's mother. Several cried as the verdict was handed down. The teenager was discharged from the dock and free to leave the court. During the trial the teenager told the court that on the night, he had been smoking cannabis and drinking alongside his mother's long-term partner at their home. He said the mood shifted after his stepfather offered his younger brother some of the drug. The teenager told the court he became scared after his stepfather called him "ungrateful" and started bragging about violent acts he had previously committed. During a struggle, he told the court he felt forced to repeatedly stab his stepfather, who had put him in a "bear hug" and kept reaching for the 23-centimetre knife. The defence argued the teenager believed the man was a "real threat to him" and he thought he was going to be killed. The trial heard from more than a dozen witnesses including the teenager's mother, other family members, neighbours, and emergency services.

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