This post is a part of a monthly series summarizing notable
activity in patent litigation in the District of Massachusetts,
including short summaries of substantive orders.
Intellectual Ventures I, LLC v. Lenovo Group, Ltd., et
al., 370 F. Supp. 3d 251 (D. Mass. 2019) (Saris, J.)
- Order on EMC's Motion for Summary
Judgment on the Invalidity of Claim 11 of the '442 Patent
– GRANTED
Intellectual Ventures I, LLC ("IV") brought suit
against EMC Corp. ("EMC"), among others, alleging
infringement of claim 11 of U.S. Patent No. 6,516,442 (the
"'442 patent") covering a symmetric multiprocessor
system or shared-memory multiprocessor system for computers. EMC
moved for summary judgment of invalidity arguing in the alternative
that (1) IV was collaterally estopped from disputing that claim 11
was invalid in view of an earlier PTAB decision finding claim 1
invalid and (2) there was no genuine material dispute of fact
regarding whether claim was obvious as a matter of
