According to Reuters, a federal judge upheld a jury handed down in December last year at the suit of Carnegie Mellon University (UCM) against Marvell Technology Group and Marvell Semiconductor . For infringement of two patents Marvell will pay a fine of $ 1.17 billion.
The lawsuit was filed in March 2009. There appear patents obtained in 2001 and 2002. They relate to storage technology, magnetic disk, or more precisely, of the circuit to read data. According to the plaintiff, patents violated at least nine controllers Marvell, which are sold in large quantities.
The amount of payment in the amount of $ 1.17 billion - the largest ever appointed by a U.S. court in patent disputes. The second is the greatness of the sum of $ 1.05 billion, named in the decision by Apple lawsuit against Samsung Electronics.
The representative of Marvell has already announced that the company intends to appeal.