The US District Court for the District of Idaho can’t adjudicate Micron’s allegation that Netlist violated Idaho’s Bad Faith Assertions of Patent Infringement Act without “disrupting the congressionally approved federal-state balance,” Judge Amanda Brailsford said in a Wednesday order. Brailsford remanded the case back to Idaho state court, stating Micron’s suit “targets only bad-faith assertion conduct, which poses no obstacle to the objectives of federal patent law.”
Micron declined to comment. ...