The London leg of Intel’s (INTC.O) international patent fight with competitor R2 Semiconductor, which was requesting an injunction that may have stopped the sale of certain of Intel’s processors, was won on Wednesday.
In 2022, R2 filed a lawsuit against Intel in the High Court of London, claiming that the company had violated its patent by distributing chips and CPUs with inbuilt voltage regulators.
On Wednesday, the High Court decided in favor of Intel, which had counterclaimed to have R2’s patent on on-chip power sources for computer microprocessors declared invalid.
After a trial in April, Judge Richard Hacon issued a written finding declaring that R2’s patent is void for failing to take a “inventive step” while expanding upon prior ideas.
But the judge also stated that if R2’s patent had been legitimate, Intel would have violated it.
A request for comment was not immediately answered by R2 or Intel.
In court documents, R2’s attorneys claimed that the patent had been violated by “the entirety of Intel’s current product line of microchips, processors or other microelectronic devices that incorporate a fully integrated voltage regulator.”
In order to prohibit additional claimed infringement, the business was requesting an injunction, which might have prevented Intel from selling goods, including its “Ice Lake” server CPUs.
The verdict on Wednesday is in contrast to one that a German court rendered in February favoring R2. The Dusseldorf regional court’s decision that Intel devices violated R2’s patent is being appealed, according to Intel’s attorneys in the London lawsuit.
