In the second half of 2011, the semiconductor company Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. (MIP) sent letters to multiple companies asserting infringement on four of MIP’s mobile application patents. In 2012, MIP started filing lawsuits against many of those companies. Meanwhile, other proactive entities are filing invalidation suits against MIP. This tangled mess has quickly become a Gordian knot in need of cutting, and the corporations attempting to invalidate MIP’s patents have started doing so.
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