( CNN ) -- A federal jury in Pennsylvania on Wednesday ordered Marvell Technology Group , Ltd. , to pay $ 1.17 billion in damages after finding it infringed on two patents held by Carnegie Mellon University . A lawsuit filed in 2009 by the Pittsburgh university claimed that Marvell infringed on its patented technology fundamental for `` increasing the accuracy with which hard disk drive circuits read data from high-speed magnetic disks , '' according to a press release from K & L Gates , the law firm representing Carnegie Mellon . The damages could be increased by as much as three times by U.S. District Court judge Nora Barry Fischer since the jury found chipmaker Marvell 's infringements were willful , according to K & L Gates . The jury also found Marvell sold billions of chips incorporating the university 's technology without a license to do so , according to K & L Gates . Marvell has denied the claim . It did not immediately reply to messages left Wednesday by CNN . In a statement , Carnegie Mellon said , `` We felt the evidence we submitted was compelling , and the jury agreed . Protection of the discoveries of our faculty and students is very important to us . ''
Jury finds chipmaker infringed on university 's patents . Score: 6 Company denied claim .