VLSI accuses Intel, PQA, USPTO of blocking 'whistleblower report' from public
By Melissa Ritti ( June 8, 2026, 21:03 GMT | Insight) -- VLSI Technology on Friday decried efforts by Intel Corp., Patent Quality Assurance LLC and the US Patent and Trademark Office to keep allegations of an Intel-PQA connection under wraps. Their shared resistance to unsealing an anonymous “whistleblower report” should only heighten concerns about the integrity of an inter partes review that wiped out a high-value patent, VLSI said.In a filing with a US appeals court on Friday, VLSI Technology said opposition to its motion to unseal a document from an anonymous whistleblower “underscores the need for sunlight” on proceedings that resulted in cancellation of a patent that a Texas jury found Intel infringed to the tune of $1.5 billion....
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