By Melissa Ritti ( June 3, 2025, 15:29 GMT | Insight) -- Prolific patent litigant Intellectual Ventures flexed its portfolio might yesterday, accusing China’s Lenovo Group Limited of infringing six patents that trace their origins to fabless semiconductor company Transmeta, now defunct, and chipmaker Conexant, acquired by Synaptics in 2017. IV takes aim at a plethora of popular consumer electronics and asserts ownership of a variety of technological breakthroughs. The frequent legal foes will face off at trial later this year, in litigation which overlaps at least in part with IV’s newest complaint — unless a Texas federal judge first sides with Lenovo on its long-pending challenge to personal jurisdiction.Nonpracticing entities Intellectual Ventures I and Intellectual Ventures II (IV collectively), are banking on their acquisition of hundreds of former Transmeta patents to pay off....
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