Impinj Wins Patent Infringement Lawsuits Against NXP Semiconductors; Jury Awards $18 Million
17 Julho 2023 - 10:00AM
Business Wire
Impinj, Inc. (NASDAQ: PI), a leading RAIN RFID provider and
Internet of Things pioneer, today announced that it prevailed in
two RAIN RFID patent-infringement lawsuits. On July 14, a federal
jury in California found that NXP Semiconductors (NASDAQ: NXPI)
infringed two of Impinj’s patents, one willfully. The jury awarded
Impinj approximately $18.5M in damages and lost profits. In June, a
federal jury in Washington found that Impinj did not infringe an
NXP patent on which NXP sued Impinj. The cases stem from a
patent-infringement lawsuit Impinj filed against NXP’s UCODE
products in 2019, after attempting unsuccessfully for nearly two
years to resolve without litigation.
The infringed patents include key Impinj endpoint IC
technologies related to Impinj’s Enduro technology, which provides
a robust IC-to-antenna connection, and power-harvesting circuitry,
which improves RAIN RFID tag sensitivity. In a letter to partners
and customers, Impinj Co-founder and CEO Chris Diorio said, “We
were disheartened to see a large company copy the patented
inventions of a small, innovative company like ours. We take our
responsibility to protect our inventions seriously, which is why we
felt we had no option but to pursue litigation. We thank the jurors
who listened carefully to the evidence, deliberated and delivered
their judgments. We are pleased with the outcome and confident in
our position in the remaining litigation with NXP.”
Impinj has more than 300 issued and allowed RAIN RFID patents,
reflecting significant investment and inventiveness. Impinj also
supports global, royalty-free standards and, in accordance with the
GS1® IP policy, provides reciprocal, royalty-free access to
intellectual property necessary to practice the GS1® Gen2 protocol.
The patent claims in the trial improve the readability, reliability
and manufacturability of RAIN RFID tags and are not necessary to
practice Gen2. We do not believe this litigation outcome will
materially impact ongoing or new RAIN RFID programs. We do believe
that upholding intellectual property rights will encourage more
RAIN RFID providers to innovate in the future.
“Impinj is committed to free and fair competition and, with our
suppliers and partners, to creating and delivering the most
advanced RAIN RFID solutions for our enterprise customers,” said
Diorio. “As one of the founders and leaders of the RAIN industry,
Impinj will continue innovating to advance our market.”
Read the Impinj letter to partners and customers at
www.impinj.com/library/blog/impinj-wins-patent-lawsuits-against-nxp.
About Impinj
Impinj (NASDAQ: PI) helps businesses and people analyze,
optimize, and innovate by wirelessly connecting billions of
everyday things — such as apparel, automobile parts, luggage, and
shipments — to the Internet. The Impinj platform uses RAIN RFID to
deliver timely data about these everyday things to business and
consumer applications, enabling a boundless Internet of Things.
www.impinj.com
Impinj and Enduro are trademarks or registered trademarks of
Impinj, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their owners.
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