AMD Loses Patent Suit Over Chips: In...
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
AMD Loses Patent Suit Over Chips: In a case that breaks new legal ground, Advanced Micro Devices has lost a patent infringement lawsuit brought by Brooktree Corp. of San Diego. A U.S. District Court jury found that AMD violated three of Brooktree’s patents and also infringed on the company’s rights to protect chip layout designs under a 1984 law. The Brooktree suit has been closely watched as the first major test of the Semiconductor Chip Protection Act, which made illegal the use of photographic techniques and other forms of copying chip designs.
