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Guru3D.com » News » TSMC Files Complaints Against GlobalFoundries for Infringement of 25 Patents

TSMC Files Complaints Against GlobalFoundries for Infringement of 25 Patents

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 10/01/2019 08:47 AM | source: | 22 comment(s)
TSMC Files Complaints Against GlobalFoundries for  Infringement of 25 Patents

TSMC filed multiple lawsuits on September 30, 2019 against GlobalFoundries in the United States, Germany and Singapore for its ongoing infringement of 25 TSMC patents by at least its 40nm, 28nm, 22nm, 14nm, and 12nm node processes. 

In the complaints, TSMC demands injunctions to stop GlobalFoundries’ manufacture and sale of infringing semiconductor products. TSMC also seeks substantial monetary damages from GlobalFoundries for its sale of infringing semiconductor products and unlawful use of TSMC’s patented semiconductor technologies.

The 25 TSMC patents in the complaints relate to a diverse set of technologies, including FinFET designs, shallow trench isolation techniques, double patterning methods, advanced seal rings and gate structures, and innovative contact etch stop layer designs. These specific technologies cover the core features of mature and advanced semiconductor manufacturing processes. The patents at issue comprise just a small portion of TSMC’s extensive portfolio that numbers more than 37,000 granted patents worldwide. TSMC was ranked one of the top 10 companies for U.S. patent grants last year, for the third consecutive year.

TSMC pioneered the dedicated semiconductor foundry model, enabling an entire fabless IC design industry worth hundreds of billions of dollars in the United States. Furthermore, TSMC plays a critical role in facilitating the global semiconductor supply chain. For example, TSMC collaborates with dozens of U.S.-based equipment suppliers, intellectual property (IP) core providers and electronic design automation (EDA) vendors. TSMC procured about US$20 billion in equipment and services from U.S. suppliers over the past 5 years. TSMC also spurs the next generation of semiconductor technology by working closely with U.S.-based customers, suppliers and prestigious universities. TSMC subsidiaries operate a manufacturing site in Washington State along with offices in California and Texas with over a thousand employees.

“TSMC’s patents reflect decades and tens of billions of dollars of investments in innovation, resulting in TSMC’s significant contribution to advancements in semiconductor manufacturing technology,” said Sylvia Fang, Vice President and General Counsel for TSMC. “TSMC’s lawsuits seek to protect our reputation, our significant investments, our nearly 500 customers, and consumers worldwide to ensure everyone benefits from the most advanced semiconductor technologies that enable a wide range of applications such as mobile, 5G, AI, IoT and high performance computing, which are critically important to the public interest.”







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Gomez Addams
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#5716174 Posted on: 10/01/2019 05:26 PM
The standard outcome for these kinds of things is a cross-licensing deal between the parties. Standard would be a situation where neither side has a clear legal advantage since both are infringing to one degree or another. Often because both came up with similar innovations about the same time and both attempted to patent them. In some cases both patents are granted for practically the same exact thing. I have seen this first hand at previous employers. In one case, our patent was granted years before and someone else sued us for essentially the same thing. We paid them several thousand bucks to cross license and go away because the legal fees would have been ten times the settlement.

The state of the patent system is just horrendous. It is set up so only lawyers come out ahead but that is not a surprising since they make the laws and litigate them too.

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#5716192 Posted on: 10/01/2019 06:39 PM
Playing with fire might be fun, might also burn you. GF was really stupid, first giving up on the race to 7nm and then suing TSMC.
In the end It's probably us, the consumer, that get hurt by stupid wars.
Totally agree. Not sure what GF was expecting by provoking a giant like TSMC. Basically bringing a knife to a gun fight.
Doesn't help that TSMC is one of the few tech companies that doesn't seem to have made a lot of enemies. They're oddly good at not pissing people off on a regular basis, so, their outward reputation in that regard only makes them harder to target.

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#5716248 Posted on: 10/01/2019 09:36 PM
Doesn't help that TSMC is one of the few tech companies that doesn't seem to have made a lot of enemies.


Yeah, TSMC's first statement in response to GF's action reflects their attitude quite well: "We are disappointed to see a foundry peer resort to meritless lawsuits instead of competing in the marketplace with technology."

Neo Cyrus
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#5716271 Posted on: 10/01/2019 11:06 PM
A Chinese company filing a complaint against an American company... LOL that's rich. Meanwhile they continue to work on their malware to steal absolutely anything they can.

schmidtbag
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#5716272 Posted on: 10/01/2019 11:10 PM
A Chinese company filing a complaint against an American company... LOL that's rich. Meanwhile they continue to work on their malware to steal absolutely anything they can.

Uh..... Taiwan!=People's Republic of China.

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