Plaintiff

LSI Corporation

5 cases as plaintiff.

Cases
5
Active
1
4 closed
Filed
2010–2012
Top venue
C D Cal
2 cases
Also appears as a defendant in 3 cases → View as defendant

Company profile

LSI Corporation (originally LSI Logic Corporation, commonly "LSI") was a U.S. semiconductor and storage-systems company headquartered in Milpitas, California, founded in 1981 by former Fairchild Semiconductor executives (Wikipedia; SemiEngineering). It traded on the NYSE as "LSI," reporting roughly $2.5 billion in revenue and about 4,300 employees in 2012 (company 10-K; Reuters, Dec. 16, 2013). It is no longer independent: Avago Technologies announced a $6.6 billion acquisition in December 2013, closing May 6, 2014; Avago later became Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO), where LSI's businesses now reside.

Operations. LSI designed and sold semiconductors, adapters and software — an operating company, not an NPE. Product lines included custom ASICs; storage silicon (TrueStore read channels, preamplifiers, hard-disk controllers, SAS/SATA/RAID-on-chip with Fusion-MPT firmware); server RAID and host-bus adapters (MegaRAID, 3ware); flash/SSD controllers and PCIe flash cards (SandForce, Nytro); and Axxia multicore networking processors. Its 2007 merger with Agere Systems (ex-Lucent/AT&T) added Wi-Fi, audio and MPEG video IP.

Litigation posture. The tracked docket is predominantly offensive — 5 plaintiff vs. 3 defendant cases — making LSI an active two-way litigant that sued more often than it was sued. Cases clustered in its home districts (C.D. Cal., N.D. Cal.), the ITC and the Federal Circuit rather than the Eastern District of Texas.

Notable matters. LSI and Agere Systems filed ITC § 337 complaint 337-TA-837 (March 2012) against Funai, MediaTek, Ralink and Realtek over audiovisual and IEEE 802.11/ITU standard-essential patents ('087, '663, '867, '958), with parallel C.D. Cal. suits against Funai; the ITC found no violation and held the '958 patent invalid, and LSI's appeal failed in a nonprecedential 2015 Federal Circuit ruling on § 337's domestic-industry requirement. LSI also sued Vizio in C.D. Cal. (2010) over MPEG video decoder patents. Defensively, it faced Barnes & Noble's 2011 N.D. Cal. declaratory-judgment suit over Nook Wi-Fi/3G/audio patents, a related Funai action, and Realtek's 2012 N.D. Cal. case raising FRAND/antitrust allegations.

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Filing activity

2010: 1 case'10'112012: 3 cases3'12
Cases filed per year with LSI Corporation as plaintiff.

LSI Corporation et al. v. Funai Electric Co., Ltd. et al.

terminated
Docket:
337-TA-837
Filed:
2012-03-12
Terminated:
2014-03-26
Patents:6452958587008767078676982663
π LSI Corporationπ Agere Systems Inc.Δ Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Δ Funai Corporation, Inc.Δ P&F USA, Inc.Δ Funai Service Corp.Δ MediaTek Inc.Δ MediaTek USA Inc.Δ MediaTek Wireless, Inc.Δ Ralink Technology Corp.Δ Realtek Semiconductor Corp.

ITC Section 337 investigation brought by LSI and Agere against Funai, MediaTek, Ralink, and Realtek. The Commission found no violation as to any asserted claim of the '958 patent and terminated the investigation in March 2014.

LSI Corporation et al. v. Funai Corporation, Inc. et al.

pending/unconfirmed
Docket:
2:12-cv-02047
Filed:
2012-03-12
Patents:6707867
π LSI Corporationπ Agere Systems Inc.Δ Funai Corporation, Inc.Δ Funai Electric Company Ltd.Δ Funai Service CorporationΔ P&F USA, Inc.

Companion patent-infringement action to ITC No. 337-TA-837, with the '867 patent among those asserted. Docket reflects activity through a protective order entered August 20, 2015; no specific final disposition attributable to the '867 patent was retrieved.

LSI Corporation v. Vizio Inc.

terminated
Docket:
8:10-cv-01602
Court:
C.D. Cal.
Filed:
2010-10-20
Patents:5870087
π LSI CorporationΔ Vizio Inc.

LSI Corporation sued Vizio Inc. in the Central District of California; the outcome was not established in the retrieved sources, and the case was terminated.