The U.S. Court docket of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, discovering abuse of discretion by U.S. District Choose Alan Albright of the Western District of Texas, reversed a $2.1 billion verdict and ordered a brand new trial in VLSI Technology LLC v. Intel.
Intel—represented by a Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr authorized crew composed of attorneys in Boston; Washington, D.C.; and Denver—was in a position to persuade a Federal Circuit panel that one in all two challenged patent infringement claims was insufficiently introduced.