Fed. Circ. Hears 'Settled Expectations' Are 'Lawless' In IP Feud

By Editorial Team

SanDisk Technologies Inc. and its former parent have brought a case to the Federal Circuit challenging the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's discretionary denial practices. They are taking aim at the acting director's holdings that patent owners have the right to assume their patents won't be challenged.

The case involves a dispute over several patents, including:

• 9,183,085 - Systems and methods for adaptively selecting from among a plurality of error correction coding schemes in a flash drive for robustness and low latency
• 8,601,346 - System and method for generating parity data in a nonvolatile memory controller by using a distributed processing technique
• 8,554,968 - Interrupt technique for a nonvolatile memory controller

Law360 reported that this case adds to the ongoing legal battles in the intellectual property arena. The involved parties include law firms such as Haynes Boone and Kramer Alberti, as well as companies like Google LLC, Motorola Solutions Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., SanDisk Corp., SAP AG, and Western Digital Corp.

The dispute has caught the attention of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

For more detailed information on this case, interested parties can access the attached petition document.