LONDON -- Taiwan's Via Technologies Inc. today announced it was suing Intel Corp. in a London court in an attempt to invalidate an Intel patent on chip-timing circuits.
Richard Brown, Via director of marketing, said the counter suit was brought to fight Intel's own patent infringement case against the Taiwan firm filed in U.S. District court in San Jose and with the U.S. International Trade Commission. "We strongly believe that the patent infringement claims they Intel have made against us are totally without merit," he said.
The U.K. suit was filed in the Patent Court of the Chancery Division of High Court of Justice. The Intel patent being challenged by Via is No. EP (UK) 0-804763 involving snoop timing design.
