Chip firm says rival paid ‘secret bounty’ to patent troll
07-06-2023
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After chip company Realtek accused a rival of employing a patent assertion entity to file “meritless” claims, Sarah Speight finds both sides standing firm in the bitter dispute.
“Robber barons and their hired henchmen” securing “monopoly spoils” as part of a “secret bounty”. You could easily be forgiven for thinking this was taken from a film script.
But this is the language of a complaint filed this week by a major Taiwanese semiconductor firm to a rival, in a dispute that centres upon the issue of ‘patent trolling’.
Realtek has accused its rival MediaTek of paying a “secret litigation bounty” to a so-called patent troll in a bid to disrupt Realtek’s business and drive it from the market.
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