Patent litigation jackpot: A university won a .5 billion suit against Marvell The smartphone industry is caught in a maelstrom of Patent litigation, with Apple, Samsung, **kia, Motorola and other major companies entangled in a complex matrix of lawsuits. But other parts of the tech world also have their woes. A federal court has just ordered Marvell to pay .5 billion to Carnegie Mellon university over*two hard-disk patents. The judge in case slammed Marvell with "enhanced penalties" for deliberately infringing on Carnegie's intellectual property.