SAN FRANCISCO — In a first for California, a San Jose jury has decided how much Realtek Semiconductor Corp. should pay LSI Corp. to license two of its wireless networking patents under reasonable and nondiscriminatory terms.
After a two-week trial, the jury set a 0.12 percent royalty for U.S. Patent No. 6,452,958 and a 0.07 percent rate for U.S. Patent No. 6,707,867. Although the royalties are about half of what LSI and its lawyers at Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton asked for, Realtek had hoped for an even deeper discount, said Realtek’s lead lawyer, Steven Baik.
