Regents of the University of Minnesota v. LSI Corporation

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA SAN JOSE DIVISION 6 REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF Case No. 5:18-cv-00821-EJD

MINNESOTA,

CLAIM CONSTRUCTION ORDER Plaintiff, 9 v. 10 LSI CORPORATION, et al., 11 Defendants.

12 Plaintiff Regents of the University of Minnesota (“UMN”) brings this suit against Defendants LSI Corporation and Avago Technologies U.S. Inc. (collectively, “LSI”) for infringement of U.S. Patent No. 5,859,601, entitled “Method and Apparatus for Implementing Maximum Transition Run Codes” (the “ ’601 Patent”). The parties dispute the proper construction of three terms. See Am. Joint Claim Construction Statement (“CC Statement”), ECF No. 240. After careful consideration of the record and the parties’ arguments at hearing, the Court construes the contested language of the patent-in-suit as set forth below. I. BACKGROUND A. Overview of the Technology UMN is a public research university that occasionally patents and commercializes the inventions of its…