BiTMICRO LLC v. Intel Corporation

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA SAN JOSE DIVISION 7 BITMICRO LLC, Case No. 5:23-cv-00625-EJD

Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND

DENYING IN PART MOTION TO

v. STAY PENDING INTER PARTES

REVIEW

INTEL CORPORATION, Defendant. Re: ECF No.

Defendant Intel Corporation (“Intel”) moves to stay this patent infringement case pending inter partes review (“IPR”). See Intel’s Notice of Mot. and Mot. to Stay Pending IPR (“Mot.”), ECF No. 70. For the reasons discussed below, the Court GRANTS IN PART AND DENIES IN PART Intel’s motion. Intel manufactures semiconductor chips. See Compl., ECF No. 1 ¶ 51. Its products are incorporated into servers, computers, and mobile phones, such as processors, flash memory, SSDs, and field-programmable gate arrays. Id. Plaintiff BiTMICRO LLC (“BiTMICRO”) owns certain patents containing solid state drive (“SSD”) and integrated circuit technology invented by BiTMICRO…