Defendants import, offer for sale, and/or sell MSI Z170A XPower Gaming Titanium Edition motherboards equipped with Intel Z170 chipset and loaded with American Megatrends, Inc. (“AMI”) UEFI T.ON BIOS (dated august 4, 2015) that practice the inventions of the patents in-suit (“Accused Products”).
The board of directors includes representatives from eleven “Promoter” companies: AMD, American Megatrends, Apple, Dell, HP, IBM, Insyde Software, Intel, Lenovo, Microsoft, and Phoenix Technologies.
Defendants’ importation, sale and/or offer to sell the Accused Products constitute direct infringement of claim 6 of the ‘268 Patent pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 271(a), insofar as the Accused Products have a first code portion in the UEFI BIOS loaded thereon to initiate POST and boot operations, and a second code portion to communicate with a separate computer in the event that there is a failure to complete boot operations.
Defendants’ importation, sale and/or offer to sell the Accused Products loaded with the AMI compatibility support module (“CSM”) constitute direct infringement of claims 11 and 20 of the ‘783 Patent pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 271(a) insofar as the CSM allows the processor to boot in Legacy or UEFI mode.
Users directly infringe claims 1 and 11 of the ‘604 Patent through operation of the Accused Products for which the paging feature in system management mode has been activated.