ITC to Review Initial Determination in Patent Litigation between GSI and Cypress Semiconductor

GSI Technology

today reported that the International Trade Commission (the “ITC”) has determined to review the initial determination of Chief Administrative Law Judge Charles E. Bullock in the patent litigation between GSI and Cypress Semiconductor

. pending before the ITC. The ITC remanded the case to Judge Bullock to consider arguments by GSI and the other respondents in the case that the patents at issue are invalid and unenforceable and to rule on these arguments prior to the Commission's review. The ITC investigation was instituted in July 2011 in response to a complaint filed by Cypress. Cypress' complaint alleged that GSI products, including its Sigma DDR and SigmaQuad families of static random