Articles tagged with: International Trade Commission and Semiconductor

Spansion and Samsung Settle Patent Litigation Lawsuit:

Spansion, the world's largest pure-play provider of Flash memory solutions, has announced that it has settled its patent litigation lawsuits with Samsung Electronics. As part of the settlement, Samsung will pay Spansion US$70 million and Spansion and Samsung Electronics Company have exchanged rights in their patent portfolios in the form of licenses and covenants subject to a confidential settlement agreement.  more

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Motorola, Qualcomm Win First Stage in Patent Dispute

The USA's International Trade Commission (ITC) has issued an initial finding in a patent lawsuit brought by Tessera Technologies against a raft of companies, including Motorola and Qualcomm - stating that Tessera's asserted patents are valid but are not infringed by the respondents.  more

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Broadcom Wins GPS Patent Dispute

Broadcom Corp. says that the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has rejected claims by GPS chipmaker SiRF Technology Holdings that two of its GPS patents were infringed by Global Locate, a company Broadcom acquired in July 2007. The ITC also found that the asserted claims of one of SiRF's patents at issue are invalid.  more

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Patent Lawsuit Seeks to Block US Imports of Mobile Phones

The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has voted to institute an investigation of certain short-wavelength (e.g., blue, violet) LEDs and laser diodes that are used in products such as mobile phones, instrument panels, billboards, traffic lights, HD DVD players and data storage devices.  more

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