Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. vs Advanced Integrated Circuit Process LLC - IPR2025-01210

Explore the PTAB proceeding IPR2025-01210 filed by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. against Advanced Integrated Circuit Process LLC on Jul 15, 2025. This includes filing dates, application numbers, tech centers, patent numbers, and current case status.

Case Details

Proceeding Number
IPR2025-01210
Filing Date
Jul 15, 2025
Petitioner
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd.
Respondent
Advanced Integrated Circuit Process LLC
Status
Pending
Respondent Application Number
12241896
Respondent Tech Center
2800
Respondent Patent Number
7632751

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Proceeding Documents

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Patent Assignment Record from Nuvoton Technology Corp. Japan to Advanced Integrated Circuit Process LLC, Reel: 068118 Frame: 0314-0317, United States Patent and Trademark Office (July 30, 2024)

Oct 28, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

United States District Courts – National Judicial Caseload Profile, 12-Month Period Ending Mar. 31, 2025, U.S. Courts (2025), available at https://www.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/document/fcms_na_distprofile0331.2025

Oct 28, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

Summary of Judge Gilstrap Patent Trials Between October 22, 2024 and October 22, 2025

Oct 28, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

Docket for 2:23-cv-00274 (E.D. Tex.)

Oct 28, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

Docket for 2:23-cv-0379 (E.D. Tex.)

Oct 28, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

Docket for 2:24-cv-00034 (E.D. Tex.)

Oct 28, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

Docket for 2:24-cv-00047 (E.D. Tex.)

Oct 28, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

Docket for 2:24-cv-00049 (E.D. Tex.)

Oct 28, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

Jeremy Bowman, Nasdaq, This 1 Number May Ensure TSMC’s Market Dominance, The Motley Fool (Aug. 17, 2024) (last visited October 22, 2025), available at https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/1-number-may-ensure-tsmcs-market-dominance

Oct 28, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

CNBC Transcript: United States Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick Speaks with CNBC’s Brian Sullivan on “The Exchange” Today, CNBC (Apr. 29. 2025) (last visited October 22, 2025), available at https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/cnbc-transcript-united-states-commerce-secretary-howard-lutnick-speaks-with-cnbcs-brian-sullivan-on-the-exchange-today.html

Oct 28, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

Trump on China Putting - America First (Robert C. O’Brien editor)

Oct 28, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

Remarks: Donald Trump Announces an Economic Investment in the United States - March 3, 2025, available at https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-remarks-economic-investment-united-states-march-3-2025/#2

Oct 28, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

Speech: Donald Trump Addresses an Republican Dinner in Washington - April 8, 2025, available at https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-speech-nrcc-republican-dinner-april-8-2025/#161

Oct 28, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

Microchip USA, How Military Tensions Are Driving the Next Semiconductor Chip Race (July 16, 2025) (last visited Aug. 12, 2025), available at https://www.microchipusa.com/industry-news/how-military-tensions-are-driving-the-next-semiconductor-chip-race?srsltid=AfmBOopQdXXTBoOGl_bluj9BHhwBFREsja-0SrRhCUKPHwTlW98FCBKI

Oct 28, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

Another Historic Investment Secured Under President Trump, Articles, The White House (Mar. 3, 2025) (last visited July 14, 2025), available at https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/03/another-historic-investment-secured-under-president-trump

Oct 28, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

Sujai Shivakumar and Charles Wessner, Semiconductors and National Defense: What Are the Stakes?, Center for Strategic International Studies (June 8, 2022) (last visited July 14, 2025), available at https://www.csis.org/analysis/ semiconductors-and-national-defense-what-are-stakes

Oct 28, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S., Taiwan, and Semiconductors: A Critical Supply Chain Partnership, Final Report, Project 2049 Institute (US-Taiwan Business Counsel June 21, 2023)

Oct 28, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

Eric Lee, How Taiwan Underwrites the US Defense Industrial Complex, The Diplomat (Nov. 9, 2021) (last visited July 14, 2025), available at https://thediplomat.com/2021/11/how-taiwan-underwrites-the-us-defense-industrial-complex/

Oct 28, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

Silvia Pellegrino, What is TSMC?, Tech Monitor (Jan. 2, 2023) (last visited July 14, 2025), available at https://www.techmonitor.ai/what-is/what-is-tsmc/?cf-view

Oct 28, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

Patent Owner’s Response and Objections to Petitioner’s First Request for Production of Documents (Contains Material Marked Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only)

Oct 28, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S. Patent No. 7,067,919 to Watanabe et al. (“Watanabe’919”)

Oct 28, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S. Patent No. 6,958,542 to Hasunuma et al. (“Hasunuma’542”)

Oct 28, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

JP4047324 file wrapper – excerpts and Certified Translation of excerpts and Certification of Translation

Oct 28, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

16/12nm Technology

Oct 28, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

Prosecution History 7,439,623

Oct 28, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

Petition for Inter Partes Review IPR2025-01212

Oct 28, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence, Presidential Actions, The White House (Jan. 23, 2025) (last visited July 14, 2025), available at https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidentialactions/2025/01/removing-barriers-to-american-leadership-inartificial-intelligence/

Oct 28, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President of the United States, Winning the Race: America’s AI Action Plan (July 2025)

Oct 28, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, 2024 Report to Congress of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, 118 Cong., 2d Sess. (2024)

Oct 28, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

TSMC Expands Collaboration with Ansys by Integrating AI Technology to Accelerate 3D-IC Design, Ansys (Sept. 25, 2024) (last visited July 14, 2025), available at https://investors.ansys.com/news-releases/news-releasedetails/tsmc-expands-collaboration-ansys-integrating-ai-technology

Oct 28, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

Cadence and TSMC Advance AI and 3D-IC Chip Design with Certified Design Solutions for TSMC’s A16 and N2P Process Technologies, Cadence (Apr. 23, 2025) (last visited July 14, 2025), available at https://www.cadence.com/en_US/home/company/newsroom/pressreleases/pr/2025/cadence-and-tsmc-advance-ai-and-3d-ic-chipdesign-with-certified.html

Oct 28, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

Silent Giant TSMC Returns to the Peak of its Powers as the AI Boom Continues, Yahoo! finance (June 12, 2025), available at https://finance.yahoo.com/news/silent-giant-tsmc-returns-peak230300515.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3 cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAGbNeBi6fbz4 U1LAPZACoSOpXFKhZ2d8Aeym1OTBUscShGSwm5cDQL_KD bidYk16TkPx7YtIzsB2YbOGeGdO4PchwSBFYrk3fTg3HWrMVsPIL1q7mWa7ZR5e6BG0tbKASjEzPE-8raiT0KakQ2cXTjpdVs4xTGUvCoXUGlVbDT

Oct 28, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

Alex He, In the Global AI Chips Race, China Is Playing Catch-Up (September 18, 2024)

Oct 28, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

Jeff Klearman, Decoding TSMC’s Contribution to the AI and 5G Ecosystem (November 20, 2024), available at https://graniteshares.com/institutional/us/en-us/research/decoding-tsmc-s-contribution-to-the-ai-and-5g-ecosystem

Oct 28, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

Charlotte Trueman, Mayo Clinic to use Cerebras chips for medical AI models (January 9, 2024), available at https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/mayo-clinic-to-use-cerebas-chips-for-medical-ai-models/

Oct 28, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

Vishal Subbiah, A Big Chip for Big Science: Watching the COVID-19 Virus in Action – Cerebras (December 14, 2021), available at https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/a-big-chip-for-big-science-watching-the-covid-19-virus-in-action

Oct 28, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

Petitioner's Updated Exhibit List

Oct 28, 2025PAPERPETITIONER

Petitioner’s Opposition to Patent Owner’s Discretionary Denial Request

Oct 28, 2025PAPERPETITIONER

Petitioner’s Unopposed Motion to Seal

Oct 28, 2025PAPERPETITIONER

Patent Owner's Unopposed Motion for Entry of Protective Order

Oct 17, 2025PAPERPATENT OWNER

Email Correspondence

Oct 16, 2025EXHIBITBOARD

Email Correspondence

Oct 16, 2025EXHIBITBOARD

Motion for Entry of Protective Order

Sep 29, 2025PAPERPATENT OWNER

Motion to Seal

Sep 29, 2025PAPERPATENT OWNER

EX2026 - Patent Purchase Agreement (SEALED)

Sep 29, 2025EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

PO Discretionary Denial Brief

Sep 29, 2025PAPERPATENT OWNER

EX2001 - AICP v. TSMC Complaint EDTX

Sep 29, 2025EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

EX2002 – AICP v. TSMC Docket Sheet

Sep 29, 2025EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

EX2003 – 2nd Amended DCO DKT 60

Sep 29, 2025EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

EX2004 -DCO DKT 46

Sep 29, 2025EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

EX2005 – 1st Amended DCO DKT 53

Sep 29, 2025EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

EX2006 – AICP Notice of Compliance DKT 45

Sep 29, 2025EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

EX2008 – Declaration of Kemper Diehl

Sep 29, 2025EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

EX2009 -Protective Order DKT 62

Sep 29, 2025EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

EX2010 – TSMC Motion to Stay Pending IPR DKT 47

Sep 29, 2025EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

EX2011 – Order Denying w/o Prejudice TSMC’s Motion to Stay Pending IPR DKT 71

Sep 29, 2025EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

EX2012 - Docket Navigator Time-to-Trial Stats

Sep 29, 2025EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

EX2013 – Lex Machina Time-to-Trial Stats

Sep 29, 2025EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

EX2014 – USPTO Memorandum

Sep 29, 2025EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

EX2016 – U.S. Patent No. 7,439,623

Sep 29, 2025EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

EX2017 – U.S. Patent No. 8,329,572

Sep 29, 2025EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

EX2018 – U.S. Patent No. 8,884,373

Sep 29, 2025EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

EX2020 – Excerpt of TSMC’s Petition for IPR in IPR2025-01211 (‘623)

Sep 29, 2025EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

EX2021 - Excerpt of TSMC’s Petition for IPR in IPR2025-01212 (‘623)

Sep 29, 2025EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

EX2022 - Excerpt of TSMC’s Petition for IPR in IPR2025-01302 (‘373)

Sep 29, 2025EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

EX2023 - Excerpt of TSMC’s Petition for IPR in IPR2025-01305 (‘572)

Sep 29, 2025EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

EX2024 – PO’s Reply to Petitioner’s Opposition to Discretionary Denial in IPR2025-00682

Sep 29, 2025EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

EX2025 – PO’s Reply to Petitioner’s Opposition to Discretionary Denial in IPR2025-00828

Sep 29, 2025EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

EX2027 – 3rd Amended DCO DKT 73

Sep 29, 2025EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

STIPULATION: 7-31-2025 Letter from K. Wheatley (counsel for TSMC) to J. Nelson et al. (counsel for AICP)

Aug 21, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

Petitioner's Updated Exhibit List

Aug 21, 2025PAPERPETITIONER

Patent Owner's Power of Attorney

Aug 5, 2025PAPERPATENT OWNER

Patent Owner's Mandatory Notice

Aug 5, 2025PAPERPATENT OWNER

Notice: Notice filing date accorded

Jul 28, 2025PAPERBOARD

U.S. Patent No. 7,632,751

Jul 15, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

File History of U.S. Patent No. 7,632,751

Jul 15, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S. Patent Publication No. 2001/0019180 to Aoyagi et al.

Jul 15, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S. Patent No. 5,250,465 to Iizuka et al.

Jul 15, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S. Patent Publication No. 2004/0173905 to Kamoshima et al.

Jul 15, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S. Patent No. 7,042,099 to Kurashima

Jul 15, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S. Patent Publication No. 2003/0005399 to Igarashi

Jul 15, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S. Patent No. 6,717,268 to Hau-Riege

Jul 15, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S. Patent No. 6,022,808 to Nogami

Jul 15, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

Kaanta et al., "Dual Damascene: A ULSI Wiring Technology"

Jul 15, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S. Patent No. 5,032,890 to Ushiku

Jul 15, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S. Patent No. 6,156,660 to Liu et al.

Jul 15, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S. Patent No. 5,798,298 to Yang

Jul 15, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

Bao et al., “90 nm generation Cu/CVD low-k"

Jul 15, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

Loke, “Process Integration Issues of Low-Permittivity Dielectrics"

Jul 15, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

Tu, “Recent advances on electromigration in very-large-scale-integration"

Jul 15, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

Huang, et al., "Numerical modeling and characterization of the stress"

Jul 15, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S. Patent No. 6,858,944 to Huang et al.

Jul 15, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S. Patent No. 6,215,189 to Toyoda et al.

Jul 15, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S. Patent No. 6,238,850 to Bula et al.

Jul 15, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S. Patent Application No. 2003/0116852 to Watanabe

Jul 15, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S. Patent Application No. 2004/0113238 to Hasunuma

Jul 15, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

Japanese Patent No. 2002-299437 (Fukazawa)

Jul 15, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S. Patent No. 5,885,857 to Yamaha

Jul 15, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S. Patent No. 6,468,894 to Yang

Jul 15, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S. Patent No. 6,582,976 to Watanabe

Jul 15, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

Middleman - Ch 8 Oxidation of Silicon

Jul 15, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S. Patent No. 6,717,267 (Kunikiyo)

Jul 15, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S. Patent Application No. 2001/0030365 to Otsuka

Jul 15, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

Interface, Cooper, "Copper On-Chip Interconnections"

Jul 15, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

Wolf, Stanley, Silicon Processing for the VLSI Era Deep-Submicron Process

Jul 15, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

JP2000012688 to Nasu (“Nasu”) and Certified Translation

Jul 15, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

Petition for Inter Parties Review

Jul 15, 2025PAPERPETITIONER

Declaration of Dr. Reinhold Dauskardt

Jul 15, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

Petitioner's Power of Attorney

Jul 15, 2025PAPERPETITIONER