GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc. v. OAK IP LLC
terminated – settlement- Docket:
- IPR2025-00889
GlobalFoundries Inc. et al. petitioned for inter partes review against Oak IP LLC concerning US 10,090,395; terminated as a settlement.
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GlobalFoundries Inc. (short name: GF; Nasdaq: GFS) is a public contract semiconductor manufacturer headquartered at 400 Stonebreak Road Extension, Malta, New York. It was formed in 2009 out of Advanced Micro Devices' manufacturing arm (incorporated October 2008) and went public in October 2021. Mubadala Investment Company, the UAE sovereign wealth fund, remains its largest and controlling shareholder. It reports roughly 13,000–14,000 employees and FY2024 revenue of $6.75 billion; market capitalization was around $29–30 billion in 2026 (Barron's/FactSet).
GF is the largest U.S.-based independent pure-play foundry and, unlike TSMC, Samsung, or Intel, focuses on specialty and mature process nodes rather than leading-edge logic. Its platforms include 22FDX FD-SOI, 12LP/14LPP FinFET, RF and power-management technologies, GaN, and the Fotonix silicon-photonics platform, plus advanced packaging, masks, and wafer-test services. Wafers account for about 90% of net sales. End markets are smart mobile devices, automotive, home/industrial IoT, and communications infrastructure/data centers. Manufacturing sites are in Malta, NY; Dresden, Germany; Burlington, VT; and Singapore.
GF is an operating company, not a non-practicing entity. In the tracked data it appears only as plaintiff (1 case, 0 as defendant), in a USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board proceeding. That plaintiff-side PTAB filing is characteristic of a foundry defensively challenging patents asserted against it, rather than of an entity monetizing an acquired portfolio.
The tracked case, GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc. v. OAK IP LLC, is IPR2025-01129 (filed June 11, 2025), challenging claims of U.S. Patent 10,937,880, "Metal-Semiconductor Junctions with an Interface Layer." Oak IP, LLC is a patent assertion entity; its Delaware Rule 7.1 disclosure identifies Monument Patent Holdings, LLC as corporate parent and Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC as affiliate. Oak IP sued GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc. and GLOBALFOUNDRIES U.S., Inc. on February 4, 2025 in the District of Delaware (1:25-cv-00142), asserting that patent alongside U.S. Patents 9,905,691 and 10,090,395 — semiconductor contact-resistance/Fermi-level-depinning patents reportedly acquired from Acorn Semi. The parallel litigation sits in Delaware, not the Eastern District of Texas.
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GlobalFoundries Inc. et al. petitioned for inter partes review against Oak IP LLC concerning US 10,090,395; terminated as a settlement.