ITC Publishes Broadcom Patent Notice on DTV Chips; Comments Due March 21

Broadcom's Tariff Act Section 337 complaint with the International Trade Commission, seeking an investigation into allegations that imports of semiconductor devices for consumer audiovisual products are infringing its patents (see 1703080001), has comments due March 21, the ITC said in Monday's Federal Register. Broadcom said March 7 that Funai, LG, MediaTek and Vizio were among companies making or using infringing SoCs and similar processing components and circuits for DTVs. Funai, LG, MediaTek and Vizio had no immediate comment Tuesday.