Carnegie Mellon University v. LSI Corporation

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY, Case No. 18-cv-04571-JD

Plaintiff,

ORDER RE PARTIAL SUMMARY

v. JUDGMENT

LSI CORPORATION, et al., Re: Dkt. No. 146 Defendants.

Plaintiff Carnegie Mellon University (“CMU”) holds United States Patent No. 6,201,839 (’839 patent) and United States Patent No. 6,438,180 (’180 patent). As alleged in the complaint for patent infringement against defendants LSI Corporation and Avago Technologies U.S. Inc. (collectively, LSI), the patents “generally claim a method used in a ‘read channel’ for improving the accuracy of detecting data written to a storage medium, such as a magnetic disk in a hard disk drive (‘HDD’).” Dkt. No. 1 ¶ 2. CMU says that LSI designed and supplied HDD read channel products that practiced the methods claimed in the patents. The accused products included devices such as HDD controller systems-on-a-chip (SOCs), stand-alone read channel chips, and simulators used to mimic and model the operation of…