Netlist Says Its Patent Case Against SanDisk's ULLtraDIMM Will Proceed

(RTTNews) - Netlist Inc. (NLST), a provider of high performance memory solutions for the cloud computing and storage markets, said Tuesday that the United States District Court of the Northern District of California denied without prejudice a motion to stay Netlist's patent infringement action against SanDisk and Diablo Technologies, Inc., who partnered to create the recently released ULLtraDIMM memory module which is accused of infringing seven Netlist patents.

In June, SanDisk and Diablo filed petitions in the United States Patent and Trademark Office or USPTO requesting Inter Partes Review or IPR of the seven asserted patents. SanDisk and Diablo then joined in a motion to stay the patent case pending resolution of the IPRs. In the Court's order denying the motion, United States District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers observed that the mere filing of an IPR petition says little about whether review will be granted.

Netlist President and CEO, C.K. Hong said, "We welcome the Court's decision to allow the patent lawsuit to continue. we are confident in the strengths of our patents asserted in this case and we are eager to press ahead with the patent and related trade secret actions in order to enforce our IP rights."