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Netlist files infringement suit against Inphi over US 7,532,537

By Lawrence B. Ebert, Esq.

Inphi Corporation issued a press release responding to a press release by Netlist asserting that Inphi?s newly developed iMB ? technology infringes on Netlist?s U.S. Patent No. 7,532,537. Inphi described this as a nuisance lawsuit, which (at the time) was filed but not served.

The patent in question is titled Memory module with a circuit providing load isolation and memory domain translation and the first inventor is Jeffrey C. Solomon.

The first claim is

A memory module comprising: a plurality of memory devices, each memory device having a corresponding load; and a circuit electrically coupled to the plurality of memory devices and configured to be electrically coupled to a memory controller of a computer system, the circuit selectively isolating one or more of the loads of the memory devices from the computer system, the circuit comprising logic which translates between a system memory domain of the computer system and a physical memory domain of the memory module, wherein the system memory domain is compatible with a first number of chip selects, and the physical memory domain is compatible with a second number of chip selects equal to twice the first number of chip selects.

and the application was prosecuted by Knobbe.

Full post as published by IPBiz on September 28, 2009 (boomark / email).