Judge upholds $1.17 billion patent verdict against Marvell

By Bernard Vaughan NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge on Friday upheld a $1.17 billion award a jury imposed on chipmaker Marvell Technology Group Ltd for infringing two patents held by Carnegie Mellon University. Carnegie Mellon had sued Marvell in March 2009 over patents issued in 2001 and 2002 related to how accurately hard disk- drive circuits read data from high-speed magnetic disks. ...



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