Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1 v. Intel Corporation, No. 2:17-cv-00676 (E.D. Tex. Sept. 12, 2018)

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This lawsuit concerns eight United States patents relating to semiconductor tech- nology: U.S. Patents 6,197,696; 6,346,736; 6,387,824; 6,602,802; 6,709,950; 6,967,409; 7,279,727; and RE 41,980. The parties have agreed to constructions for certain terms from six of these patents. See Part II infra. Terms from three of the patents remain disputed. The ’736 Patent, titled “Trench Isolated Semiconductor Device,” discloses a device with a dielectric film between the wir- ing and substrate of a semiconductor to reduce the capacitance between them.