Texas federal court orders Kioxia units to pay $229 million in Viasat patent damages
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A U.S. federal court ordered Kioxia units to pay about $229M in patent-infringement damages to Viasat over memory-chip error-correction technology. Although Kioxia already accrued an equivalent litigation loss for the June quarter, the confirmed judgment increases near-term legal and cash-flow overhang, with additional uncertainty from an appeal process and potential precedent risk for future IP disputes.
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A U.S. federal district court in Texas ordered Kioxia Corp. and its U.S. subsidiary Kioxia America to pay about $229 million for infringing a Viasat Inc. patent covering memory-chip error-correction technology. Kioxia said it had already booked about $229 million in litigation losses in the quarter ended in June. The Japanese memory chipmaker said it plans to appeal.
