ITC to review initial determination in Cypress-GSI SRAM patent infringement case

USA: Cypress Semiconductor Corp. announced that the International Trade Commission (ITC) has agreed to review the entire Initial Determination issued by Chief Administrative Law Judge Charles E. Bullock in the pending patent case between Cypress and GSI Technology. Cypress has asserted that GSI SRAMs infringe multiple Cypress patents.

The Commission also remanded the case back to Judge Bullock for a ruling on the validity and the enforceability of Cypress’s patents. After Judge Bullock completes his ruling, the Commission will review his initial findings on non-infringement as well as his rulings on validity and enforceability.

“We are pleased that the Commission has decided to review the judge’s initial findings with respect to all four patents,” said T.J. Rodgers, Cypress’s President and CEO. “We remain confident that our intellectual property is being infringed and welcome further examination of the facts by the full Commission.”

The ITC case in question is Investigation No. 337-TA-792. Cypress has asserted that GSI’s SigmaQuad-II, SigmaQuad-III, SigmaDDR, standard Synchronous, and NBT SRAMs infringe Cypress patents.

Cypress has also filed a district court suit against GSI, and will continue to vigorously pursue it. That case is No. 11-cv-00789, filed March 30, 2011, before Judge Patrick J. Schiltz in the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota.