Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, TSMC has recently responded to the Patent Infringement case filed against it by an American semiconductor fabrication foundry known as GlobalFoundaries (GF).
TSMC
said that GF is acting like a patent troll and its allegations are
baseless. The contract maker of semiconductors continued by saying that
it has obtained more than 37,000 patents worldwide and a top 10 ranking
for three consecutive years for the US patent grants since 2016, thus
considers itself as one of the leading semiconductor foundries.
Besides,
the world’s largest foundry said that it is disappointed to come across
a situation where a peer opts to file a meritless case instead of
competing.
On 26th August 2019, GlobalFoundries filed the
complaint claiming that TSMC, along with many of its customers, and
makers of several products, have infringed 16 of its patents
encompassing various aspects of chip manufacturing. GF claimed that the 7
nm, 10 nm, 12 nm, 16 nm, and 28 nm nodes of TSMC illegally use its Intellectual Property (IP). Apple, Broadcom, NVIDIA, MediaTek, Xilinx, and Qualcomm are some other names that the company named among the defendants.
The
complainant had filed the case in the Regional Courts of Dusseldorf,
and Mannheim in Germany, the U.S. Federal District Courts in the
Districts of Delaware and the Western District of Texas, and the US
International Trade Commission (ITC). Looking for damages from TSMC, it
wants the courts to prohibit the products that use infringing
semiconductors in not only the US but Germany as well.
On the
other hand, TSMC rejected the allegations and proclaimed that it would
defend itself in the courts. The foundry reveals that it not only has
been granted 37,000 patents throughout its history but also spends
billions of dollars on R&D every year.
Typically, high-tech firms counter-sue one another in Intellectual Property infringement
lawsuits, so it will not be surprising if TSMC decides to sue GF. TSMC
undoubtedly feels that the allegations are baseless and therefore, is
planning to defend itself against GF but what if any of the three courts
disagree? Then, TSMC and its clients would work out a royalty
arrangement with GF.
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