Patent ownership and licensing dispute dismissed on summary judgment for computer graphics company

Finnegan represented a computer graphics company in an action filed in the District of Delaware against defendants Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., ATI Technologies ULC, and ATI International SRL. The plaintiff sought a declaratory judgment, including damages, on defendants’ claims to ownership of or license to certain valuable patents related to high-performance graphics processing for video games and other graphics intensive software applications. The court ruled on summary judgment that the plaintiff owns the disputed patents, and that the defendants have no ownership interest or express license to the disputed patents.