Litigation against Diablo and Smart Storage Netlist Inc. Adds New Patents to ULLtraDIMM Litigation Against Diablo Technologies Inc. and SMART Storage Systems, Inc
Jan 29 14
Netlist, Inc. announced that it has filed motions to add two additional patents to the lawsuits against the recently announced ULLtraDIMM memory module from Diablo Technologies, Inc., and Smart Storage Systems, Inc. The lawsuits are pending before Judge Gonzalez Rogers in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California in Oakland, California. The two newly added patents (U.S. Patent Nos. 7,881,150 and 8,081,536) are generally related to load reduction, a critical feature in low latency memory modules. These patents are part of the same family as U.S. Patent No. 7,532,537, which has been upheld by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board following a three-year reexamination. The '150 and '536 patents were examined and issued in view of prior art cited in the reexamination. Netlist has now asserted a total of seven patents against the ULLtraDIMM, in addition to trade secret theft, trademark infringement and other claims