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• ITC Issues Notice of Final Determination in Rambus Matter Regarding NVIDIA Products (Tuesday Jul. 27, 2010)
  Rambus today announced that the ITC issued its notice of final determination in the action brought by Rambus against NVIDIA Corporation and other Respondents.
  
  
• EVE Will Vigorously Defend Itself Against Mentor Graphics Corporation's Allegation (Thursday Jul. 22, 2010)
  Following EVE’s announcement June 29 stating record quarterly bookings of $19.9 million, Mentor Graphics announced yesterday that it had filed an import suspension application against EVE emulation products in the Japanese Customs Office.
  
  
• Mentor Graphics Files Import Suspension Application Against EVE with Japanese Customs Office (Wednesday Jul. 21, 2010)
  Mentor Graphics today announced it had filed an import suspension application against EVE emulation products in Japan with the Japanese Customs Office.
  
  
• OPTi Announces Licensing Agreement with Atmel Corporation, Broadcom Corporation and Standard Microsystems Corporation (Thursday Jul. 15, 2010)
  OPTi today announced that it has entered into License Option Agreements with Atmel and Broadcom and a Licensing Agreement with SMSC.
  
  
• MOSAID Proceeds With Breach of Contract Complaint (Friday Jun. 11, 2010)
  MOSAID Technologies today announced that it has served LSI and Agere with a breach of contract complaint. The suit was originally filed on March 9, 2010 in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, but only served on June 10, 2010.
  
  
• Kilopass Expands Lawsuit Against Sidense to Include Two Additional Patents and False Advertisement (Monday Jun. 07, 2010)
  Kilopass announced today that in keeping with the service requirements of the Hague Convention it is initiating an amendment to the patent infringement lawsuit against Sidense in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California on June 4, 2010, to include infringement of two additional US patents granted to Kilopass.
  
  
• ITC Extends Target Date of Final Determination in Rambus Matter Regarding NVIDIA Products (Thursday May. 27, 2010)
  Rambus today announced that it has received notification from the ITC extending the target date for completion of the investigation until July 26, 2010.
  
  
• Kilopass Files Action Against Key Sidense Patent at United States Patent and Trademark Office (Monday May. 24, 2010)
  Kilopass Technology announced today that it filed a request at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on May 21, 2010 to reexamine Sidense's U.S. Patent No. 7,402,855, and rule the patent invalid.
  
  
• Sidense To Prove Kilopass Patent Invalid (Monday May. 24, 2010)
  Sidense has announced it intends to prove that the only patent asserted against it by Kilopass Technology, Inc. in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California on May 14, 2010, is invalid.
  
  
• Sidense Corp. Reacts to Kilopass Allegations (Monday May. 17, 2010)
  Sidense has acknowledged reports that Kilopass has commenced legal proceedings against it in California by stating it believes any allegations that it is infringing Kilopass patents to be without substance or merit. SidenseCEO Xerxes Wania pointed to Sidense’s extensive patent portfolio of over 40 patents issued and pending and its broad acceptance in the marketplace as the leading embedded OTP provider
  
  
• Kilopass Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Sidense (Monday May. 17, 2010)
  Kilopass Technology announced today it filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Sidense Corp. in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California on May 14, 2010, for infringement of Kilopass’ 1T antifuse technology.
  
  
• WiLAN Initiates Litigation (Thursday Apr. 08, 2010)
  Wi-LAN today announced that it has commenced litigation in against Acer, Apple, Atheros Communications, Belkin International, Broadcom, Dell, D-Link, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Lenovo Group, LG Electronics, Marvell Semiconductor, Motorola, Personal Communications Devices, Sony, Texas Instruments, Toshiba and UTStarcom, Inc
  
  
• Avago Technologies Files Optical Sensor IP Lawsuit Against STMicroelectronics (Tuesday Mar. 30, 2010)
  Avago Technologies announced today that on March 15, 2010 Avago filed a patent infringement lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas against STMicroelectronics. Avago alleges that certain STMicroelectronics products infringe four of Avago’s patents covering optical navigation technology and is seeks cash compensation and an order preventing further infringement of the technology.
  
  
• MPEG LA Lawsuit Against Alcatel Lucent Settled (Tuesday Mar. 30, 2010)
  MPEG LA today announced that an action brought by MPEG LA against Alcatel Lucent, Lucent Technologies Inc. (“Lucent”) and Multimedia Patent Trust in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware was settled last week
  
  
• Aldi Nord, Aldi Sud and Lidl Sued for MPEG-2 Patent Infringement (Wednesday 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 (Monday 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 (Monday 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 (Friday 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 (Friday 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 (Wednesday 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 (Tuesday 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 (Monday 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 (Friday 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 (Wednesday 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 (Monday 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 (Thursday 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 (Monday 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 (Friday 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 (Tuesday 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 (Thursday 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).