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• International Trade Commission Grants Rambus Request for Investigation (Friday Dec. 05, 2008)
  Rambus today announced that, at its request, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has instituted an investigation regarding infringement of Rambus’ patents by NVIDIA Corporation and other companies whose products incorporate the accused NVIDIA products.
  
  
• Fairchild Semiconductor Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Infineon Technologies (Monday Dec. 01, 2008)
  Fairchild said it believes certain Infineon CoolMOS and OptiMOS branded products, as well as other Infineon IGBT and CanPAK products, infringe one or more claims of eight Fairchild patents.
  
  
• German processor firm alleges Xilinx, Avnet infringe patents (Thursday Nov. 27, 2008)
  Pact XPP, a developer of a reconfigurable highly parallel processor architecture, has filed a law suit against FPGA vendor Xilinx Inc. and distributor Avnet Inc. in the Eastern District court of Texas, claiming patent infringement.
  
  
• Federal Trade Commission Files Petition for Certiorari in the Supreme Court in Rambus Case (Tuesday Nov. 25, 2008)
  Rambus today announced that FTC has filed a petition for a writ of certiorari in the United States Supreme Court, seeking to overturn a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (CADC) in Rambus' favor.
  
  
• Rambus Files Complaint with International Trade Commission (Friday Nov. 07, 2008)
  The complaint seeks an exclusion order barring the importation, sale for importation, or sale after importation of products that infringe nine Rambus patents from the Ware and Barth families of patents.
  
  
• Powerchip Semiconductor Settles Litigation with MOSAID (Wednesday Oct. 29, 2008)
  Under the terms of the license agreement, Powerchip has been granted a five year, running royalty license under MOSAID's patents for all of its non-foundry Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) and Pseudo-Static Random Access Memory (PSRAM) products. Financial details of the agreement are confidential.
  
  
• Gabriel Technologies Corporation Announces Federal Lawsuit Involving Patent Infringement and Misappropriation of Technology Against Qualcomm Inc. (Wednesday Oct. 29, 2008)
  The disputed technology involves significant refinements and enhancements to what is commonly known as “assisted GPS.”
  
  
• Target Enters into MPEG-2 License with MPEG LA (Friday Oct. 17, 2008)
  Under the License with MPEG LA, Target will be responsible for paying royalties on its own store branded MPEG-2 products including digital TVs and DVD players sold under the name Trutech®.
  
  
• Nokia set to pay Qualcomm $2.3bn in patent deal (Thursday Oct. 16, 2008)
  Hidden away in Nokia's third quarter results was confirmation that the Finnish handset maker will pay Qualcomm Inc. Euros 1.7 billion ($2.3 billion) as part of the patent agreement between the companies.
  
  
• German Court Finds DVD Disc Manufacturer Odeon Infringes MPEG-2 Patents (Wednesday Oct. 15, 2008)
  The District Court Düsseldorf, Germany recently pronounced 12 verdicts finding that DVD disc manufacturer Odeon Cineplex S.A. (“Odeon”) of Greece, has infringed certain MPEG-2 patents as a result of Odeon’s manufacture of DVD video discs.
  
  
• SiRF & Qualcomm Sign Mutual Patent Non-Assertion Agreement (Friday Oct. 10, 2008)
  SiRF today announced that SiRF and Qualcomm have signed a mutual Patent Non-Assertion Agreement covering each party's patent portfolio.
  
  
• Broadcom Files Suit Asserting Qualcomm's Licensing Practices Violate U.S. Law (Wednesday Oct. 08, 2008)
  The complaint asserts that Qualcomm's use of "exhausted" patents to control post-sale use of products in the wireless communications industry results in a double recovery of royalties (or other consideration) to Qualcomm for the use of its patents.
  
  
• US Supreme Court Denies Samsung Appeal in Rambus Case (Tuesday Oct. 07, 2008)
  Rambus today announced that the United States Supreme Court has denied Samsung's request for review in the case stemming from the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA).
  
  
• Wi-LAN Litigation Update (Thursday Oct. 02, 2008)
  Wi-LAN Inc., a leading technology innovation and licensing company, today provided a litigation update.
  
  
• Nokia and Nokia Siemens Networks enter into patent license agreement with Huawei (Monday Sep. 29, 2008)
  The comprehensive agreement covers the worldwide use of all standards essential patents of all parties, including GSM, WCDMA, CDMA2000, optical networking, datacom and WiMAX in mobile devices, infrastructure and services.
  
  
• U.S. Appeals Court Affirms Jury Verdict That Qualcomm Infringes Two Broadcom Patents (Thursday Sep. 25, 2008)
  Broadcom announced that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit today upheld a unanimous jury verdict that Qualcomm cellular chips and software infringe two Broadcom® patents, and upheld the injunction entered by the district court on those two patents
  
  
• DVD Disc Manufacturer Dicentia Infringing MPEG-2 Patents, German Court Says (Friday Sep. 19, 2008)
  The District Court Düsseldorf, Germany pronounced last week 12 verdicts on the merits finding that DVD disc manufacturers Dicentia have infringed certain patents in the MPEG-2 Patent Portfolio License offered by MPEG LA as a result of Dicentia’s manufacture of DVD video discs.
  
  
• Fujitsu Microelectronics and Nanya Technology Sign License Agreement to Settle Patent Dispute (Tuesday Sep. 02, 2008)
  Fujitsu Microelectronics and Nanya Technology today announced that they have signed a patent license agreement containing licensing terms with financial arrangements to resolve patent disputes between the companies.
  
  
• Intertrust Announces Patent Licensing Agreement with Nokia (Tuesday Aug. 19, 2008)
  The license grants Nokia worldwide access to Intertrust’s broad portfolio of inventions in the areas of digital rights management (DRM) and trusted computing.
  
  
• International Trade Commission Upholds Patent Ruling Against SiRF (Friday Aug. 15, 2008)
  Broadcom announced today that the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has denied the request of SiRF SiRF to review an Initial Determination that found no violation by Global Locate, Inc. of Section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930.
  
  
• ITC Judge Finds that SiRF Infringes Six Broadcom GPS Patents (Monday Aug. 11, 2008)
  Broadcom announced that a U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) judge today ruled that products of SiRF Technology infringe six patents related to improving global positioning system (GPS) processing and sensitivity.
  
  
• SiRF Requests Reexamination of Broadcom Patents Asserted Against SiRF (Wednesday Aug. 06, 2008)
  Through its respective Reexamination Requests and in view of substantial new questions of patentability raised by prior art not previously considered by the Patent Office, SiRF seeks review and invalidation of all four of the Broadcom patents-in-suit
  
  
• Altera Files Patent Infringement Suit Against Zilog (Wednesday Aug. 06, 2008)
  The lawsuit alleges that some of Zilog’s newest products, including the Zilog eZ80F91 MCU series and ZNEO CPU Z16F series, infringe various Altera® patents.
  
  
• CEVA, Inc. Will Receive $2.5 Million From U-Blox AG (Wednesday Jul. 16, 2008)
  CEVA will receive the $2.5 million for the claimed underreporting, underpayment and/or unauthorized third party use of the technology rights licensed by CEVA to u-blox.
  
  
• Rambus Files Patent Infringement Suit Against NVIDIA (Friday Jul. 11, 2008)
  The lawsuit alleges that a number of NVIDIA products with memory controllers for SDR, DDR, DDR2, DDR3, GDDR, and GDDR3 SDRAM infringe 17 Rambus patents.
  
  
• Wi-LAN Amends Complaint to Add LG to Litigation Against Motorola, RIM and UTStarCom (Friday Jul. 04, 2008)
  Wi-LAN today announced that it has amended its Complaint in action No. 2:08-cv-237 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division to add LG Electronics, Inc. and LG Electronics Mobilecomm U.S.A., Inc. as Defendants.
  
  
• InterDigital(R) and Nokia Agree to End English Court Actions (Wednesday Jul. 02, 2008)
  InterDigital and Nokia have agreed to end two legal actions in the English Courts.
  
  
• FastVDO Extends Patent Offer Invitation (Wednesday Jul. 02, 2008)
  On June 5, 2008, FastVDO announced the unprecedented availability for sale of intellectual property believed to be pertinent to a variety of mainstream media codecs.
  
  
• Wi-LAN Initiates Litigation Against Motorola, RIM and UTStarCom / Company confirms settlement of Marvell Dispute (Friday Jun. 20, 2008)
  Wi-LAN today announced that it has initiated litigation in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division against Motorola, Inc., Research in Motion Corporation, Research In Motion, Ltd. and UTStarcom, Inc.
  
  
• Analogix Sues Silicon Image, Inc. for Antitrust Violations (Wednesday Jun. 18, 2008)
  Analogix Semiconductor alleges Silicon Image's unlawfully controls the HDMI market