Applying the PTAB's precedential NHK decision, the PTAB exercised its
discretion to deny institution of three timely filed IPR
petitions due to the advanced stage of a related district court
action. Intel Corporation v. VLSI Technology LLC,
IPR2020-00112, Paper 15 (PTAB May 19, 2020); IPR2020-00113, Paper
15 (PTAB May 19, 2020); IPR2020-00114, Paper 15 (PTAB May 19,
2020).
VLSI Technology had sued Intel in the Western District of Texas
for infringement of U.S. Patent No. 6,366,522. That case was
consolidated for pre-trial purposes with two other cases VLSI also
filed against Intel. Trial is currently scheduled for October
5, 2020 in all three of these cases, even though they are not
consolidated for trial.