International Trade Commission finds SK hynix infringed Netlist Patent in violation of Section 337 of the Tariff Act
Oct 21, 2019, 21:36 ET
IRVINE, Calif., Oct. 21, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Netlist, Inc. (OTCQX: NLST) today announced that the Chief Administrative Law Judge ("CALJ") of the United States International Trade Commission ("ITC"), issued a Notice of Initial Determination ("ID") in its investigation of SK hynix RDIMM and LRDIMM enterprise memory products, Netlist's second action in the ITC (Inv. No. 337-TA-1089) against SK hynix related to these products.
According to the Notice regarding Investigation No. 337-TA-1089, the CALJ determined that a violation of Section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, has been found in the importation into the United States, the sale for importation, or the sale within the United States after importation of certain memory modules and components thereof with respect to U.S. Patent No. 9,606,907 as to respondents SK hynix Inc., SK hynix America Inc., and SK hynix memory solutions Inc. There is no violation of Section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, as to U.S. Patent No. 9,535,623.
In order to find a violation of Section 337 of the Tariff Act, the ITC investigation must determine that there is infringement of a valid U.S. patent that relates to an imported product, where the patent is being used in an existing domestic industry.
The Notice includes a brief summary of the ID's conclusions, with further details to be available in the coming days. A public version of the ID will be available within 30 days.
About Netlist
Netlist provides high-performance SSDs and modular memory subsystems to enterprise customers in diverse industries. HybriDIMM™, Netlist's next-generation storage class memory product, addresses the growing need for real-time analytics in Big Data applications, in-memory databases, high-performance computing and advanced data storage solutions. Netlist also manufactures and provides a line of specialty and legacy memory products to storage customers, appliance customers, system builders and cloud and datacenter customers. Netlist holds a portfolio of patents, many seminal, in the areas of hybrid memory, storage class memory, rank multiplication and load reduction. To learn more, visit www.netlist.com.
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