D&R Headline News | Most Popular | SoC News Alerts | |

Legal News

• Aldi Nord, Aldi Sud and Lidl Sued for MPEG-2 Patent Infringement (Mar. 17, 2010)
  MPEG LA today announced that several patent holders in MPEG LA’s MPEG-2 Patent Portfolio License have filed separate patent enforcement actions in Landgericht Düsseldorf, Germany against Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd, as well as Lidl Lidl, for infringing patents essential to the MPEG-2 digital video compression standard used worldwide in digital television broadcasting and DVD.
  
  
• Lantiq Sues Network Equipment Manufacturer Billion Electric (Mar. 08, 2010)
  Lantiq has filed suit against Billion Electric for patent infringement. Lantiq asserts that some of Billion’s ADSL2/ADSL2+ modem products infringe upon Lantiq’s intellectual property, where these products contain a communications semiconductor from Taiwanese chipset supplier Trendchip.
  
  
• WiLAN and TELUS Sign Letter of Intent to Settle Lawsuit (Feb. 08, 2010)
  Wi-LAN announced today that the Company has signed a letter of intent to settle a lawsuit filed against it by TELUS.
  
  
• ITC Administrative Law Judge Rules in Favor of Rambus in Matter Regarding NVIDIA Products (Jan. 22, 2010)
  Rambus today announced that the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) for its U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) action against NVIDIA Corp. and other respondents issued an Initial Determination finding them in violation of Section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930.
  
  
• Infineon Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Volterra Semiconductor (Jan. 22, 2010)
  Infineon today announced that on January 21, 2010, it filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Volterra Semiconductor. The suit alleges that Volterra’s voltage regulators and pulse width modulation controllers infringe four United States patents owned by Infineon.
  
  
• Samsung and Rambus Sign Comprehensive Agreement (Jan. 20, 2010)
  Samsung Electronics and Rambus announced today that they have reached agreement settling all claims between them and licensing Rambus' patent portfolio covering all Samsung semiconductor products including a perpetual fully paid-up license to certain current DRAM products. As part of the overall agreement, Samsung will invest $200M in Rambus stock.
  
  
• WiLAN and Conexant Enter License Agreement (Jan. 05, 2010)
  Wi-LAN today announced that the Company has entered into a license agreement with Conexant as part of an agreement resolving litigation proceedings initiated by WiLAN in October 2009.
  
  
• Infineon Reaches Agreement to Settle Legal Dispute with Fairchild (Dec. 28, 2009)
  Infineon today announced it has settled a patent infringement lawsuit with Fairchild Semiconductor. The patents in the suit and counter suit consisted of fourteen patents related to super-junction power transistors along with trench power MOSFETs and IGBT power transistors.
  
  
• Court Denies Audiovox Motion to Renew/Reargue MPEG LA's Right to Audit (Dec. 11, 2009)
  The Supreme Court of the State of New York has denied a motion by Audiovox to reargue and/or renew MPEG LA’s motion for partial Summary Judgment, granting MPEG LA the right to audit Audiovox’s books in accordance with the terms of MPEG LA’s MPEG-2 and 1394 license agreements.
  
  
• European Commission Accepts Rambus Commitments in Final Settlement (Dec. 09, 2009)
  Rambus today announced that the European Commission has accepted commitments proposed by Rambus to resolve the matter that had been pending with the Commission.
  
  
• Rambus Comments on Order in Price-Fixing Case (Nov. 23, 2009)
  Rambus Inc. today announced that Judge Richard A. Kramer of the San Francisco Superior Court has issued recommendations that the Rambus antitrust case against certain memory manufacturers and the Tessera Technologies antitrust case against Hynix be coordinated and assigned to the San Francisco Superior Court.
  
  
• AMD and Intel Announce Settlement of All Antitrust and IP Disputes (Nov. 12, 2009)
  Intel and AMD today announced a comprehensive agreement to end all outstanding legal disputes between the companies, including antitrust litigation and patent cross license disputes.
  
  
• WiLAN Provides Litigation Update (Nov. 09, 2009)
  Claims construction on two key patents in laptop, router and handset cases consolidated, joint hearing to be held on March 11, 2010
  
  
• InterDigital Receives Notice That Commission Found No Violation of Section 337 in ITC Patent Infringement Action against Nokia (Oct. 16, 2009)
  InterDigital today announced that, in the U.S. International Trade Commission (Commission) investigation initiated by InterDigital against Nokia, the Commission issued a notice that it reviewed in part the Initial Determination (ID) by the Chief Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) and found no violation of Section 337 and has terminated the investigation.
  
  
• Via Licensing Announces Development Efforts for an LTE Patent Pool (Oct. 13, 2009)
  As a part of its ongoing effort to bring industry constituents together to advance the licensing of Long Term Evolution (LTE) essential patents and to define milestones for launching a successful LTE patent licensing program, Via Licensing organized a meeting with key LTE stakeholders. Thirteen companies from three continents, representing a broad spectrum of the LTE marketplace discussed issues surrounding the development of an LTE joint patent licensing program.
  
  
• USPTO Affirms Key MMP Portfolio(TM) Patents After Multiple Reexams (Sep. 17, 2009)
  Patriot Scientific announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has affirmed the validity of US'336, the most widely recognized patent in the MMP Portfolio(TM).
  
  
• U.S. Patent And Trademark Office Rejects Additional Patent Claims That Rambus Is Asserting Against NVIDIA (Jul. 15, 2009)
  NVIDIA today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has initially rejected an additional eight claims challenged by NVIDIA in two patents that Rambus has asserted against it in litigation.
  
  
• MOSAID Sues IBM for Patent Infringement (Jul. 13, 2009)
  MOSAID claims that IBM has infringed and is infringing MOSAID's patents by making and selling microprocessor and Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) products which practice MOSAID's patents. The patents were granted on MOSAID's fundamental Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) circuit inventions.
  
  
• New MPEG LA MPEG-2 License Agreement Offers Extended Coverage at Reduced Royalty Rates (Jul. 07, 2009)
  MPEG LA, LLC today announced the offering of a new MPEG-2 Patent Portfolio License that will provide uninterrupted coverage for the life of the MPEG-2 essential patents at reduced royalty rates beginning January 1, 2010.
  
  
• Rambus Reaches Tentative Settlement with European Commission (Jun. 12, 2009)
  Rambus today announced that it has reached a tentative settlement with the European Commission to resolve the pending case against the Company.
  
  
• Rambus Moves To Withdraw Patents From ITC Proceedings Against NVIDIA (Jun. 08, 2009)
  NVIDIA today announced that Rambus has asked an administrative law judge at the International Trade Commission (ITC) to terminate the investigation of NVIDIA relating to four patents stemming from a complaint filed in November 2008.
  
  
• Wi-LAN Litigation Update (Jun. 05, 2009)
  Wi-LAN today provided a litigation update pertaining to the claims filed on September 30, 2008 by Intel in the Northern District of California requesting a declaratory judgment that 18 of Wi-LAN’s U.S. patents are invalid and have not been infringed.
  
  
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Rejects Patent Claims That Rambus is Asserting Against NVIDIA (Jun. 02, 2009)
  NVIDIA today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has initially rejected all 41 claims challenged by NVIDIA in seven patents which Rambus has asserted in litigation against NVIDIA.
  
  
• Xilinx Announces Ninth Circuit Court Ruling (May. 29, 2009)
  Xilinx announced that on May 27, 2009, it received an adverse judicial ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit regarding a previously-disclosed dispute with the Internal Revenue Service concerning the Company's cost sharing agreement with its wholly owned subsidiary, Xilinx Ireland.
  
  
• U.S. District Court Orders Hynix to Post Security for Infringing Rambus Patents (May. 27, 2009)
  Rambus today announced that the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has ordered Hynix Semiconductor to secure the judgment amount of approximately $397 million through a combination of a bond and a lien on a Hynix property in South Korea for infringing Rambus patents.
  
  
• Federal Trade Commission Dismisses Case Against Rambus (May. 14, 2009)
  Rambus today announced that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has issued an order dismissing the remainder of its case against Rambus. This follows a recent denial of the Commission’s request for certiorari with the United States Supreme Court to review the Rambus case and brings the seven-year matter to a close.
  
  
• MPEG LA Announces Progress in Facilitation of LTE Patent Pool License (May. 11, 2009)
  MPEG LA today announced that it has made significant progress working with a group of interested companies to facilitate creation of a joint patent pool license for the Long Term Evolution (LTE) Standard for mobile telecommunications.
  
  
• Wi-LAN and Infineon Settle Patent Litigation (May. 08, 2009)
  Wi-LAN today announced that Wi-LAN and Infineon have settled the patent litigation between the two companies. As a result of the settlement, Infineon has licensed certain patents of Wi‑LAN in the areas of wireless and wireline technology, including xDSL and Wireless LAN.
  
  
• U.S. District Court Issues Decision Regarding Samsung Contract Claims in Rambus Case (Apr. 28, 2009)
  Rambus today announced that the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has issued a ruling pertaining to various claims made by Samsung relating to the parties’ 2000 SDR/DDR license agreement.
  
  
• Qualcomm and Broadcom Reach Settlement and Patent Agreement (Apr. 27, 2009)
  Qualcomm and Broadcom today announced that they have entered into a settlement and multi-year patent agreement. Qualcomm will pay Broadcom $891 million over a four-year period. The terms of this agreement will not result in any change to Qualcomm's 3G (e.g., CDMA2000®, WCDMA and TD-SCDMA ) and 4G (e.g., LTE and WiMAX ) licensing revenue model.