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• Rambus and Micron Technology Extend Patent License Agreement (Tuesday Dec. 10, 2024)
  Rambus Inc., a premier chip and silicon IP provider making data faster and safer, today announced it has extended the term of its comprehensive patent license agreement with Micron Technology, Inc. for an additional five years.
  
  
• Fundamental Inventions Enable the Best PPA and Most Portable eFPGA/DSP/SDR/AI IP for Adaptable SoCs (Thursday Apr. 25, 2024)
  Flex Logix® Technologies, Inc., the leading supplier of embedded FPGA (eFPGA) IP and reconfigurable DSP/SDR/AI solutions, announced that it now has over 100 total worldwide patents and applications on fundamental inventions that enable the best reconfigurable solutions for FPGA, DSP/SDR and AI.
  
  
• Xiphera Receives Its First US Patent (Friday Feb. 09, 2024)
  The patent is for Method of Providing a Secret Unique Key for a Volatile FPGA, and is a continuum to the patent granted by the Finnish Patent and Registration Office.
  
  
• BrainChip Awarded Latest Patent for Event-Based Pattern Detection (Friday Dec. 29, 2023)
  BrainChip Holdings Ltd (ASX: BRN, OTCQX: BRCHF, ADR: BCHPY), the world’s first commercial producer of ultra-low power, fully digital, event-based, neuromorphic AI IP, was issued its latest U.S. patent, further strengthening its IP portfolio related to sustainable and efficient AI technologies.
  
  
• German Court Fines Netflix €7.05 Million for Continued Infringement of Broadcom HEVC Patent (Wednesday Dec. 27, 2023)
  Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO) announced today that the District Court in Munich, Germany fined Netflix €7.05 million for its infringement of a Broadcom patent.
  
  
• Access Advance Announces Major Additions to its HEVC and VVC Patent Pools (Thursday Dec. 07, 2023)
  Access Advance today announced that Amazon, a major consumer electronics maker, along with Dell and Lenovo PC, two of the leading world-wide PC makers, have joined the HEVC Advance Patent Pool as Licensees.
  
  
• Secure-IC strengthens its innovation leadership in embedded cybersecurity with the acquisition of eShard patents portfolio (Tuesday Nov. 21, 2023)
  Secure-IC announces today the strategic acquisition of the patents portfolio from eShard, renowned pioneer in advanced security testing. This acquisition marks a significant milestone in Secure-IC’s commitment to pushing the boundaries of security innovation and reinforcing its leading position in the embedded cybersecurity industry.
  
  
• New POLYN Patent Covers Smart Tires, Industrial IoT Applications (Friday Oct. 20, 2023)
  POLYN Technology, a fabless semiconductor company supplying application-specific Neuromorphic Analog Signal Processing (NASP) technology and products, has been granted its first U.S. patent.
  
  
• Access Advance Announces Newest VVC Advance Licensors and Licensees (Monday Oct. 16, 2023)
  Access Advance today announced that ByteDance, Tencent, NTT, and NTT Docomo, all significant VVC patent owners, have joined the VVC Advance Patent Pool as Licensors.
  
  
• TCL Joins Via Licensing Alliance's ATSC 3.0 Broadcasting Patent Pool (Monday Sep. 18, 2023)
  Via Licensing Alliance (”Via LA”), the collaborative licensing leader, and TCL®, one of the world’s best-selling consumer electronics brands and leading technology companies, today announced that TCL has joined Via LA’s ATSC 3.0 patent pool.
  
  
• Huawei and Ericsson Sign Long-Term Patent Cross-Licensing Agreement (Monday Aug. 28, 2023)
  Huawei and Ericsson have signed a long-term global patent cross-licensing agreement that covers patents essential to a wide range of standards such as 3GPP, ITU, IEEE, and IETF standards for 3G, 4G, and 5G cellular technologies.
  
  
• BrainChip Continues to Expand IP Portfolio with Latest Australian Patent Issuance (Friday Aug. 25, 2023)
  Patent AU 2022203607, “Event-Based Extraction of Features in a Convolutional Spiking Neural Network,” significantly reduces the computational requirements and power consumption of event-based transposed and dilated convolution techniques compared to non-event-based convolutions by requiring a smaller number of even-based neuron circuits.
  
  
• GBT Technologies, Inc. & Bannix Acquisition Corp. Announce Execution of Patent Purchase Agreement (Wednesday Aug. 16, 2023)
  Bannix Acquisition and GBT Technologies today announced that they entered into a definitive Patent Purchase Agreement pursuant to BNIX acquiring the Apollo IP system for $42,500,000 payable in shares of Preferred Stock of BNIX.
  
  
• BrainChip's Latest US Patent Award Extends Intellectual Property Strength and its Leadership in Edge Learning (Thursday Jul. 20, 2023)
  BrainChip was awarded its latest US patent, further strengthening the company’s neuromorphic technology portfolio and demonstrating the company’s competitive research strength.
  
  
• Via Licensing and MPEG LA Unite to Form Via Licensing Alliance, the Largest Patent Pool Administrator in the Consumer Electronics Industry (Wednesday May. 03, 2023)
  New “Pool of Pools” Leverages Decades of Licensing Expertise and Economies of Scale to Further Streamline Intellectual Property Distribution for Innovators and Technology Implementers
  
  
• GlobalFoundries Files Lawsuit Against IBM to Protect its Intellectual Property and Trade Secrets (Thursday Apr. 20, 2023)
  GlobalFoundries (NASDAQ: GFS) (GF) today sued IBM for trade secret misappropriation. The complaint asserts the former semiconductor manufacturing company has unlawfully disclosed GF’s confidential IP and trade secrets, after IBM sold its microelectronics business to GF in 2015.
  
  
• Sharp, Motorola Mobility, and Kyocera Join Access Advance's HEVC Advance Patent Pool as Licensees (Friday Feb. 10, 2023)
  The HEVC Advance Patent Pool license now includes over 20,500 HEVC/H.265 essential patents issued in 116 countries, of which over 17,650 are exclusively available for a pool license through HEVC Advance.
  
  
• Settlement Reached in Lawsuit Brought by Tachyum Against Cadence (Tuesday Jan. 17, 2023)
  Tachyum™ today announced that it has reached an amicable settlement with Cadence Design Systems, Inc. in a lawsuit brought by Tachyum on June 8, 2022, in Santa Clara County Superior Court in California.
  
  
• MPEG LA Takes Measures to Assist VVC Adoption (Monday Nov. 07, 2022)
  MPEG LA, LLC today announced measures to bring its pool license for Versatile Video Coding, or VVC, into conformity with market realities that will free implementers to invest in VVC adoption.
  
  
• WiLAN Subsidiaries Enter into License Agreement with Micron (Friday Oct. 21, 2022)
  Wi-LAN Inc. ("WiLAN"), a Quarterhill Inc. ("Quarterhill") company (TSX: QTRH) (OTCQX: QTRHF) today announced that its wholly owned subsidiaries, Innovative Memory Solutions Inc. ("IMS"), North Star Innovations Inc. ("NSI") and Cetus Technologies Inc. ("Cetus") have entered into a license and settlement agreement with Micron Technology, Inc. ("Micron").
  
  
• BrainChip Fortifies Neuromorphic Patent Portfolio with New Awards and IP Acquisition (Thursday Oct. 13, 2022)
  BrainChip, the world’s first commercial producer of ultra-low power neuromorphic AI IP, has extended the breadth and depth of its neuromorphic IP with two new patents granted by the US Patents and Trademarks Office (USPTO), and the acquisition of previously licensed technology from Toulouse Tech Transfer (TTT).
  
  
• Arm Files Lawsuit Against Qualcomm and Nuvia for Breach of License Agreements and Trademark Infringement (Wednesday Aug. 31, 2022)
  Arm today filed a lawsuit against Qualcomm Inc. and two of its subsidiaries (“Qualcomm”) and Nuvia, Inc. (“Nuvia”) in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware for breach of certain license agreements with Arm and trademark infringement.
  
  
• Access Advance VVC Patent Pool Momentum Grows (Thursday Aug. 04, 2022)
  Access Advance, an independent licensing administrator, today announced recent additions to its growing list of patent owners (i.e., Licensors) participating in the VVC Advance Patent Pool.
  
  
• WiLAN Signs Second Wireless License in Automotive Industry (Wednesday Jul. 06, 2022)
  Quarterhill Inc. ("Quarterhill") (TSX: QTRH) (OTCQX: QTRHF) subsidiary Wi‐LAN Inc. ("WiLAN") today announced that it has entered into a license agreement with a company in the automotive industry. The licensed patents relate to wireless technology.
  
  
• Multiport Memory With Analog Port Patent Issued (Tuesday Jul. 05, 2022)
  SiliconIntervention today announced that its application for a patent, Multiport Memory With Analog Port, has been granted and issued by the United States Patent Office.
  
  
• Mosaid Announces Semiconductor Process License Agreement (Friday Jun. 10, 2022)
  MOSAID Technologies Inc. has licensed its semiconductor process patent portfolio to a major semiconductor manufacturer.
  
  
• Mosaid Acquires Major Semiconductor Process Portfolio (Friday Jun. 10, 2022)
  MOSAID Technologies Inc. has acquired a major portfolio of semiconductor process patents. The acquired patents relate to a variety of semiconductor manufacturing methods and structures.
  
  
• GBT Filed a Continuation Patent Application for its Long-Range Radio System (Monday May. 30, 2022)
  GBT Technologies, filed a continuation patent application #17736114 on May 4, 2022, for its data and voice communication system, which has been internally assigned the project code name of “Infinia”.
  
  
• OMNIVISION Announces Patent Litigation Victory Against ID Image Sensing LLC (Friday May. 13, 2022)
  OMNIVISION today announced a victory in a lawsuit filed in January 2020 by ID Image Sensing LLC (“IIS”), a subsidiary of Acacia Research Group LLC. The United States District Court for the District of Delaware entered a final judgement dismissing the case (Case No. 1:20-cv-00136) with prejudice after IIS agreed to the filing of a stipulation of non-infringement, no payments, and a full covenant not to sue.
  
  
• Apple sues processor startup for theft of trade secrets (Wednesday May. 04, 2022)
  Apple has filed a law suit against high-performance RISC-V processor startup Rivos Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.) and two individuals alleging theft of trade secrets and breach of contract.