Inventor Settles His Claims vs. Broadcom 2 Weeks Before Bench Trial

Plaintiff Aleksandar Kavcic and defendant Broadcom have reached agreement on the terms of a settlement “and are in the process of preparing a stipulation of dismissal in accordance with such terms,” said their joint notice of settlement Monday (docket 3:20-cv-01246) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco. The parties intend to file the dismissal within seven days and ask that the bench trial set for Feb. 13-14 be vacated and taken off the calendar, said the notice. Kavcic sued Broadcom in February 2020 for a declaratory judgment affirming his right to participate in defending the validity of his patent for detector technology for disk drives. Carnegie Mellon University, the patent’s assignee, sued Broadcom for infringement in July 2018, and Broadcom responded by attacking the patent’s validity.