ALJ Construes Terms of Patents in Flash Memory Chips Case
ALJ Bullock issued an order construing the terms of the four patents asserted in Investigation No. 337-TA-664, Certain Flash memory Chips and Products Containing the Same. Twelve sets of disputed terms were construed: "filling," "doped/doping/dopant" and "single, essentially uniformly doped, HDP oxide/single phosphorous doped HDP oxide layer having an essentially uniform dopant concentration" in U.S. Patent 6,380,029, "selected surface area profile" and "concave curve/convex curve/ upward concave curve" in U.S. Patent No. 6,376,877; and "method of programming in a flash memory/ a flash memory system," "a first device to be programmed," "threshold voltage of a fourth device/threshold voltage of a fifth device," "adjacent to," and "ensuring that a fifth device is on ensuring that a fourth device is off" in U.S. Patent No. 5,715,194. (PDF)
