ANDOVER, Mass., May 28, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Vicor Corporation (NASDAQ:VICR) today announced that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board ("PTAB") of the United States Patent and Trademark Office ("USPTO") has denied institution of Inter Partes Review ("IPR") of all patents asserted by Vicor against Delta Electronics ("Delta") and downstream customers at the International Trade Commission ("ITC").
On July 13, 2023, Vicor filed a complaint at the ITC against Delta alleging infringement of three Vicor patents: U.S. Patent Nos. 9,166,481 (the "‘481 patent"); 9,516,761 (the "‘761 patent") and 10,199,950 (the "'950 patent") ("the asserted patents"). On August 17, 2023, the ITC instituted an investigation of "power converter modules used in data center server, artificial intelligence and cloud computing systems, to power artificial intelligence ("AI") accelerators, tensor processing units ("TPU"), graphical processing units ("GPU") and central processing units ("CPU"), and computing systems containing the same." In its ITC case, Vicor seeks a limited exclusion order and cease-and-desist orders to protect Vicor's domestic industry by barring from entry into the United States power converter modules and computing systems infringing any of the asserted patents. The ITC held an evidentiary hearing from April 29 to May 3, 2024, and its determination of Vicor's claim is forthcoming.
On November 2, 2023, Delta filed an ...