IRVINE, Calif., Dec. 16, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Netlist, Inc.
(NASDAQ: NLST), announced today it has prevailed against SanDisk in
the Inter Partes Review (IPR) of two Netlist patents, U.S. Patent
Nos. 8,001,434, and 8,359,501. The Patent Trial and Appeal
Board (PTAB) conducted a full review of both patents and confirmed
the validity of 20 patent claims related to Netlist's self-test
technologies, which are widely used in high-performance memory
modules, including LRDIMM and Storage Class Memory.
Netlist has asserted the '434 and '501 patents against SanDisk
and Diablo Technologies as part of a seven-patent lawsuit in the
U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California against the ULLtraDIMM
product. Earlier this year, the PTAB rejected multiple waves
of IPR petitions filed by SanDisk and Smart Modular Technologies
against three other Netlist patents asserted in the same
lawsuit.
C.K. Hong, Netlist's Chief
Executive Officer said, "We are very pleased to once again have our
fundamental patents validated by the USPTO. Our IP portfolio is
unrivaled in terms of the degree to which our patents have been
tested and validated by the PTAB as well as the Federal
Circuit."
With these most recent victories, a total of five Netlist
patents asserted against ULLtraDIMM have survived the rigors of IPR
proceedings at the USPTO. These five patents cover
fundamental aspects of high-performance memory modules operating in
the memory channel. In addition to the '434 and '501
self-test patents, Netlist's U.S. Patent No. 8,516,185 covers the
distributed buffer architecture adopted by the industry for DDR4
LRDIMM. Netlist's U.S. Patent Nos. 8,301,833 and 8,516,187
relate to clocking and buffering techniques that are critical to
the design of Non-Volatile DIMMs (NVDIMMs), such as the NVvault®,
ULLtraDIMM, and Netlist's next-generation HyperVault® Storage Class
Memory technology.
Other IPR proceedings remain pending against the '434 and '501
patents, which are expected to conclude early next year. Netlist's
patent lawsuit against SanDisk and Diablo on the ULLtraDIMM will remain stayed
until all IPR proceedings are complete.
About Netlist, Inc.
Netlist creates solutions that accelerate turning data into
information. We design and manufacture controller and
software-based memory solutions for our OEM and Hyperscale
customers in the server and storage space. Flagship products
NVvault® and EXPRESSvault™ accelerate system performance and
provide mission critical fault tolerance. HyperVault®, Netlist's
next-generation architecture, expands the performance and capacity
of memory channel storage. The company holds a portfolio of
patents, many seminal, in the area of hybrid memory, rank
multiplication and load-reduction, among others. To learn more,
visit www.netlist.com
Safe Harbor Statement:
This news release contains forward-looking statements regarding
future events and the future performance of Netlist. These
forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that
could cause actual results to differ materially from those expected
or projected. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not
limited to, the launch and commercial success of our products,
programs and technologies; the success of product partnerships;
continuing development, qualification and volume production of
HyperVault™, EXPRESSvault™, NVvault®, HyperCloud® and VLP Planar-X
RDIMM; the timing and magnitude of the decrease in sales to our key
customer; our ability to leverage our NVvault® and EXPRESSvault™
technology in a more diverse customer base; the rapidly-changing
nature of technology; risks associated with intellectual property,
including risks associated with the inherent uncertainty of the
litigation process, patent infringement litigation against us as
well as the costs and unpredictability of litigation over
infringement of our intellectual property and the possibility of
our patents being reexamined by the United States Patent and
Trademark office; volatility in the pricing of DRAM ICs and NAND;
changes in and uncertainty of customer acceptance of, and demand
for, our existing products and products under development,
including uncertainty of and/or delays in product orders and
product qualifications; delays in the Company's and its customers'
product releases and development; introductions of new products by
competitors; changes in end-user demand for technology solutions;
the Company's ability to attract and retain skilled personnel; the
Company's reliance on suppliers of critical components and vendors
in the supply chain; fluctuations in the market price of critical
components; evolving industry standards; and the political and
regulatory environment in the People's
Republic of China. Other risks and uncertainties are
described in the Company's annual report on Form 10-K filed on
March 27, 2015, and subsequent
filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission made by
the Company from time to time. Except as required by law, Netlist
undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any
forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information,
future events or otherwise.
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