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• U.S. Patent And Trademark Office Rejects Additional Patent Claims That Rambus Is Asserting Against NVIDIA (Wednesday 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 (Monday 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 (Tuesday 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 (Friday 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 (Monday 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 (Friday 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 (Tuesday 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 (Friday 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 (Wednesday 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 (Thursday 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 (Monday 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 (Friday 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 (Tuesday 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 (Monday 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.
  
  
• MPEG LA Sues Apex Digital Again for Breach of MPEG-2 License (Wednesday Apr. 22, 2009)
  MPEG LA today announced that it has commenced an action against Apex Digital for breach of both a settlement agreement, which resolved a prior action, as well as its contractual obligations as a Licensee to MPEG LA’s MPEG-2 Patent Portfolio License (the “MPEG-2 Contract”).
  
  
• Altera and Zilog Settle Patent Infringement Suit (Monday Apr. 13, 2009)
  Altera today announced settlement of its patent litigation with Zilog, Inc. As part of this agreement, Zilog made a one-time payment of an undisclosed amount to Altera and both parties agreed to dismiss their pending patent infringement lawsuits. All other terms of the agreement are confidential.
  
  
• Expedia Media Sued by MPEG LA for Breach of MPEG-2 License Agreement (Wednesday Apr. 08, 2009)
  MPEG LA today announced that it has commenced an action against Expedia Media for breach of contractual obligations as a Licensee to MPEG LA’s MPEG-2 Patent Portfolio License.
  
  
• Key Information in Litigation against Semiconductor Industry Uncovered by Article One Partners Community (Wednesday Mar. 11, 2009)
  Patent Study Results: Rambus has Valid Claims; LSI's Patent in the ITC is Invalid; and LSI Faces Valid Patents Asserted by National Semiconductors
  
  
• Lenovo Sued for MPEG-2 Patent Infringement (Wednesday Mar. 11, 2009)
  MPEG LA today announced that several patent holders in MPEG LA’s MPEG-2 Patent Portfolio License have filed separate patent enforcement actions against Lenovo for infringing patents essential to the MPEG-2 digital video compression standard used worldwide in digital television broadcasting and DVD.
  
  
• U.S. District Court Enters Final Judgment for $397M Against Hynix in Favor of Rambus (Tuesday Mar. 10, 2009)
  Judgment was entered against Hynix in the amount of approximately $134M for infringement through December 31, 2005 and approximately $215M for its infringement from January 1, 2006 through January 31, 2009. In addition, the Court awarded about $48M in pre-judgment interest to Rambus.
  
  
• Rambus and Hynix Agree on Damages and Terms for Compulsory License (Tuesday Mar. 10, 2009)
  Rambus today announced that it has agreed in principle to terms for a compulsory license with Hynix for SDR SDRAM and DDR SDRAM memory products. A proposed final judgment of $349M in damages, plus pre-judgment interest of approximately $48M has been submitted to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
  
  
• Court Grants Rambus Supplemental Damages in Hynix Case and Orders Negotiation of Compulsory License (Tuesday Feb. 24, 2009)
  Rambus today announced that the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has granted its request for supplemental damages following an earlier jury verdict finding nine Rambus patents valid and infringed by Hynix SDRAM products.
  
  
• United States Supreme Court Denies FTC Request to Review Rambus Matter (Tuesday Feb. 24, 2009)
  Rambus today announced that the United States Supreme Court has denied a request by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to review the Rambus case, bringing to a close its Sherman Act antitrust claims against Rambus.
  
  
• NVIDIA Responds To INTEL Court Filing (Thursday Feb. 19, 2009)
  NVIDIA today responded to a Monday court filing in which Intel alleged that the four-year-old chipset license agreement the companies signed does not extend to Intel’s future generation CPUs with “integrated” memory controllers, such as Nehalem.
  
  
• U.S. District Court for Northern California Stays Rambus Case Against Memory Manufacturers (Wednesday Feb. 04, 2009)
  Rambus today announced that the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California stayed the coordinated cases involving memory manufacturers Hynix, Micron, Nanya, and Samsung, in view of a recent ruling from the Delaware District Court. In the Delaware case, the Court ruled that Rambus cannot enforce the patents in suit against Micron due to document spoliation.
  
  
• MPEG LA Updates AVC Patent Portfolio License (Tuesday Feb. 03, 2009)
  MPEG LA, LLC today announced that the coverage of its AVC Patent Portfolio License has been updated to conform with recent revisions to the AVC/H.264 Standard as defined in ISO/IEC 14496-10:2008, 4th Edition (2008-09-15).
  
  
• MOSAID and Micron Settle Patent Litigation (Monday Feb. 02, 2009)
  Under the terms of the patent license agreement, Micron receives a 10-year license to certain of MOSAID's patents, including a life-of-patents license for all such patents through a defined capture period and a term license for subsequent patents. Micron's Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), Flash, and other memory and image sensor products are licensed under the agreement. Micron will make a series of fixed cash payments to MOSAID.
  
  
• MOSAID Issues Statement on Qimonda (Friday Jan. 23, 2009)
  MOSAID today issued the following statement in regards to the announcement that Qimonda AG (Qimonda) has filed a petition in Munich, Germany, to open insolvency proceedings as part of an ongoing restructuring program.
  
  
• Court Declares Rambus Patents in Suit Unenforceable in Micron Delaware Case (Monday Jan. 12, 2009)
  Rambus today announced that the U.S. District Court of Delaware in the patent infringement matter with Micron Technology has found that Rambus cannot pursue its claims against Micron due to spoliation.
  
  
• Silicon Image and Analogix Announce Settlement of Outstanding Litigations (Friday Dec. 05, 2008)
  As part of the settlement, Analogix has agreed effective immediately, not to market or sell HDMI semiconductors worldwide that are pin- or register-compatible with Silicon Image’s HDMI-enabled products or to enter into any licenses to provide HDMI technology for semiconductors that are, or are claimed to be, pin- or register-compatible with Silicon Image’s HDMI-enabled products, except as necessary to fulfill certain existing customer obligations.