Carnegie Mellon Files to Receive More Damages in Marvell (MRVL) Infringement Case

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Marvell (MRVL) Affirms Patent Infringement Verdict; Will Pay $1.17B in Damages

December 27, 2012 8:04 AM EST

Marvell (Nasdaq: MRVL) announced that on December 26, 2012, a jury in Pittsburgh delivered a verdict in a lawsuit brought by Carnegie Mellon University ("CMU") against Marvell and Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. ("MSI"), Marvell's U.S. operating subsidiary, in the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.

In the lawsuit, CMU asserted that Marvell infringed two CMU patents claiming a specific technique related to read channel detector technology that is not practiced by any Marvell chips. Specifically, the patents at issue are U.S. Patent Nos.... More