Amazon and Broadcom agree to dismiss IPR
Online retailer Amazon.com and semiconductor company Broadcom have agreed to terminate an inter partes review (IPR) brought by Amazon.
In August, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) instituted an IPR covering certain challenged claims of US patent number 6,766,389 B2.
The patent, owned by Broadcom, covers a “System on a chip for network devices”.
Amazon had filed its IPR petition in January this year, alleging that the patent was obvious in light of two prior patents (US numbers 5,778,425 and 5,768,548), an article and a press release.
On Friday, October 27, the PTAB terminated (pdf) the proceeding without rendering a final written decision.
Amazon and Broadcom had submitted a joint motion to terminate two days earlier, along with a joint request to have the agreement treated as business confidential information.
The parties have now settled all of their disputes regarding the ‘389 patent, before both the PTAB and the US District Court for the Central District of California, where Broadcom had sued Amazon for patent infringement in September last year.
Broadcom, and its parent company Avago Technologies, sued Amazon alleging infringement of 11 patents, including the ‘389 patent.
The semiconductor company claimed that the patents, which concern decoder systems, were being infringed by Amazon’s Fire HD 10 tablet.
In early October, the parties settled the court dispute.
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