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• ARM drawn into lawsuit with processor technology licensor (Wednesday Nov. 01, 2006)
  Processor technology licensor ARM Holdings plc has disclosed that in September 2006 it intervened in patent litigation between Technology Properties Limited Inc. (TPL) and certain companies in the Fujitsu, Matsushita, NEC and Toshiba groups of companies and became a defendant in their court cases.
  
  
• Court Enjoins Broadcom from Use or Misappropriation of QUALCOMM Trade Secrets (Monday Oct. 30, 2006)
  QUALCOMM reported today that the Federal Court in San Diego has enjoined Broadcom from any further solicitation, use or dissemination of QUALCOMM's confidential WCDMA trade secrets, including source code
  
  
• MoSys and UniRAM Settle Patent Litigation (Thursday Oct. 26, 2006)
  Under the settlement agreement, the companies agreed to dismiss all outstanding claims and counterclaims with prejudice, MoSys will pay UniRAM $2.4 million, and receive a complete release of all claims as well as a future fully paid license for itself and
  
  
• California Court Grants MOSAID'S Motion to dismiss Micron's complaint for declaratory judgment (Wednesday Oct. 25, 2006)
  Court also denies motion by Micron and ProMOS to intervene in Infineon case
  
  
• Genesis Microchip and MStar Reach Settlement of Patent Infringement Lawsuit (Wednesday Oct. 18, 2006)
  Genesis(R) Microchip and MStar Semiconductor today announced they have settled the patent infringement complaints filed by Genesis Microchip against MStar in the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) and entered into a license agreement
  
  
• Transmeta Announces Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Intel Corporation (Thursday Oct. 12, 2006)
  The complaint charges that Intel has infringed and is infringing Transmeta's patents by making and selling a variety of microprocessor products including at least Intel's Pentium III, Pentium 4, Pentium M, Core and Core 2 product lines.
  
  
• U.S. International Trade Commission Judge Rules That Qualcomm Infringes Broadcom Patent (Thursday Oct. 12, 2006)
  The Commission is expected to issue a permanent exclusion order barring the importation into the United States of infringing Qualcomm® chips, as well as a cease and desist order barring further sales of infringing products that have already been imported
  
  
• SigmaTel Announces International Trade Commission Rules that Players with Infringing Actions Chips Cannot Be Imported into the United States (Friday Sep. 15, 2006)
  SigmaTel Patents Confirmed to be Valid and Infringed by Actions' Chips
  
  
• NeoMagic(R) Corporation Announces The Issuance of a New Embedded DRAM Patent (Friday Sep. 15, 2006)
  NeoMagic Corporation (Nasdaq: NMGC) announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (the USPTO) has issued a patent to the Company that covers a number of important aspects of embedded dynamic random-access-memory (DRAM) technology and on-chi
  
  
• Dataram Enters into Settlement Agreement (Tuesday Sep. 05, 2006)
  Dataram today reported that on August 30, 2006, the Company entered into a settlement agreement with a DRAM manufacturer whereby the manufacturer has paid the Company $2,300,000.
  
  
• MOSAID Adds Patents to Complaint Against Micron,Powerchip,and ProMOS (Friday Sep. 01, 2006)
  Amended Complaint Extends Coverage to Micron's Image Sensor Products
  
  
• SigmaTel Announces Major Chinese Customer Taking a License to Its Moon-Hwang Patent (Tuesday Aug. 29, 2006)
  This patent license agreement calls for a substantial per unit royalty for any player that does not include a SigmaTel audio decoder chip.
  
  
• Court Refuses to Strike Wi-LAN's Claim for Punitive Damages against D-Link (Friday Aug. 25, 2006)
  i-LAN Inc. (TSX: WIN) announced today that on August 21, 2006, the Federal Court of Canada refused to strike Wi-LAN’s claim for punitive damages in its Statement of Claim against D-Link Canada Inc. and D-Link Systems Inc.
  
  
• U.S. District Court For Northern California Conditionally Stays Hynix Trial Against Rambus (Wednesday Aug. 23, 2006)
  The Court noted two reasons for the stay, (1) the potential for a resolution of this case once the FTC sets royalty rates on SDRAM and DDR SDRAM, and (2) to afford Hynix ninety days to try to establish the applicability of any findings of the FTC to this
  
  
• MPEG LA Announces VC-1 License Terms; License Agreement Expected to Issue During 2006 (Friday Aug. 18, 2006)
  
  
  
• SanDisk details MP3 fight in SEC filing (Friday Aug. 11, 2006)
  SanDisk Corp., principally a vendor NAND flash storage cards for electronic equipment, has provided information on a series of lawsuits over alleged infringement of MPEG audio patents held by Philips, France Telecom and others, in a document filed with th
  
  
• Federal Trade Commission Finds Rambus Unlawfully Obtained Monopoly Power (Thursday Aug. 03, 2006)
  By a unanimous vote, the Federal Trade Commission has determined that computer technology developer Rambus, Inc. unlawfully monopolized the markets for four computer memory technologies that have been incorporated into industry standards for dynamic rando
  
  
• Rambus Accepts Court's Damages Award in Hynix Infringement Trial (Friday Jul. 28, 2006)
  Company elects remittitur of jury's award to $133.6M in lieu of new trial on damages
  
  
• MOSAID Brings Motion to Dismiss Micron Complaint (Thursday Jul. 27, 2006)
  MOSAID Technologies Incorporated (TSX:MSD) today announced that it has filed a motion to dismiss Micron Technology, Inc.'s Complaint for Declaratory Judgment
  
  
• MOSAID Sues Micron, Powerchip and ProMOS in Texas for Patent Infringement (Wednesday Jul. 26, 2006)
  In its complaint, MOSAID alleges that Micron, Powerchip and ProMOS have infringed and are infringing MOSAID's patents by making, using, importing, offering for sale and/or selling their respective products in the United States..
  
  
• MOSAID Announces Micron Complaint (Tuesday Jul. 25, 2006)
  MOSAID Technologies Incorporated (TSX:MSD) today announced that Micron Technology, Inc. filed a Complaint for Declaratory Judgment in the Northern District of California, San Jose Division seeking a declaration of non-infringement and invalidity with resp
  
  
• India boosts IP rights enforcement (Friday Jul. 21, 2006)
  The Ministry of Information Technology has amended its IP rights program to curtail patent infringement and adhere to international trade rules on intellectual property.
  
  
• Concerns grow over 'patent trolls' (Friday Jul. 21, 2006)
  Panelists highlighted increasing industry concern over the latest efforts by firms, loosely referred to as ''patent trolls'', to extract licensing fees from other companies.
  
  
• Outsourced R&D highlights need for IP rules (Tuesday Jul. 11, 2006)
  Intellectual property controls remain inadeqate even as more companies outsource electronics R&D. A new report warns that the situation has been further complicated by the fact that partners can eventually become rivals when research moves to manufacturin
  
  
• Actions Semiconductor Provides an Update on ITC Patent Infringement Lawsuit (Tuesday Jun. 20, 2006)
  Actions Semiconductor Co., Ltd., one of the largest fabless IC companies in China, announced the United States International Trade Commission today delayed the Final Determination for the patent infringement lawsuit between Actions and SigmaTel
  
  
• Green Hills Software Dismisses Express Logic's Arbitration Demand as an Act of Desperation (Thursday Jun. 15, 2006)
  Green Hills Software, Inc., the worldwide leader in royalty-free real-time operating systems, confirmed today that Express Logic has demanded arbitration of its ThreadX reseller agreement with Green Hills Software
  
  
• MOSAID and Infineon Settle Patent Litigations; Infineon and Qimonda license MOSAID patent portfolio, MOSAID purchases 50 patents from Infineon (Wednesday Jun. 14, 2006)
  MOSAID Technologies (TSX:MSD) today announced the settlement of its patent litigations with Infineon Technologies AG and that both Infineon and its memory products spin-off, Qimonda AG, have licensed the MOSAID patent portfolio.
  
  
• Innovative Silicon's Z-RAM Ultra Dense Memory IP Now Backed by 10th Patent; Memory Innovator Has 41 Additional Patents Pending and 5 U.S. Applications Allowed (Thursday Jun. 08, 2006)
  Innovative Silicon Inc. (ISi), the developer of Z-RAM(R) high density memory IP, today announced that it has been awarded its tenth patent on advanced memory technology: U.S. patent 6,982,913. ISi now has been granted nine U.S. and one Taiwan patent, with
  
  
• Rambus Achieves 500th Patent Milestone; Recent Patent Awards Include Innovative FlexPhase(TM) Circuit Technology (Friday Jun. 02, 2006)
  Rambus Inc. (Nasdaq:RMBS), one of the world's premier technology licensing companies specializing in high-speed chip interfaces, today announced that it has been granted its 500th patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and foreign patent office
  
  
• MOSAID Technologies: Texas Court Issues Notice (Thursday Jun. 01, 2006)
  MOSAID Technologies Incorporated (TSX:MSD) today reiterated that it is in ongoing settlement negotiations with Infineon Technologies. As a result of the status of the negotiations, the District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division, has