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• MPEG LA Expands HEVC License Coverage (Friday Mar. 20, 2015)
  MPEG LA, LLC has announced that the coverage of its HEVC Patent Portfolio License has been updated to conform with recent revisions to the HEVC standard as defined in Recommendation ITU-T H.265 v2 (10/2014)
  
  
• Judge Orders Kilopass to Pay Sidense $5.5 Million in Legal Fees and Costs for Baseless Patent Infringement Lawsuit (Monday Mar. 16, 2015)
  Sidense today announced that U.S. District Judge Susan Illston has ordered Kilopass Technology to pay Sidense $5.5 million for its “objectively baseless” patent infringement lawsuit initiated against Sidense in May of 2010. The fee recovery represents attorneys’ fees and associated costs.
  
  
• Mentor Graphics Wins Injunction In Patent Suit With Synopsys (Friday Mar. 13, 2015)
  Mentor Graphics today announced that an Oregon Federal District Court has issued an injunction in favor of Mentor Graphics. The injunction prohibits Synopsys, Inc. from making, using, selling, offering to sell, licensing or leasing in the United States any emulators or software that incorporate Mentor Graphics’ patented emulation technology covered by U.S. Patent No. 6,240,376.
  
  
• WiLAN Enters Into Settlement and License Agreement With Texas Instruments (Thursday Mar. 12, 2015)
  WiLAN today announced that the company's subsidiary, PLL Technologies, Inc., has entered into a settlement and license agreement with Texas Instruments. The license relates to patented phase locked loop technology used in a wide range of semiconductor products. The agreement resolves litigation that was pending in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware.
  
  
• WiLAN Enters into Settlement and License Agreement with Texas Instruments (Friday Feb. 27, 2015)
  WiLAN today announced that the company's subsidiary, MCU Clocking Solutions, Inc., has entered into a settlement and license agreement with Texas Instruments. The license relates to patented microcontroller technology.
  
  
• Apple, Ericsson Spar over LTE Patents (Tuesday Feb. 17, 2015)
  Apple and Ericsson spar over LTE patents......as IEEE threatens new rules over wireless IP royalties.
  
  
• TSMC Sues Over Trade-Secret Leak to Samsung (Friday Feb. 06, 2015)
  Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), the world’s largest chip foundry, is suing a former R&D employee on the suspicion that he leaked secrets including but not limited to 28 nm process technology to Samsung. South Korea’s largest company is a growing competitor in the foundry business.
  
  
• Spansion and Macronix Reach Settlement Agreement (Tuesday Jan. 27, 2015)
  Spansion and Macronix today announced the companies have settled all outstanding patent disputes and actions, including their respective complaints at the US International Trade Commission as well as District Court, inter partes review proceedings at USPTO, and Macronix's patent infringement complaint against Spansion in Germany.
  
  
• Mentor Graphics Wins Summary Judgment, Court Dismisses Three Synopsys Patents (Wednesday Jan. 21, 2015)
  Mentor Graphics today announced that a California federal district court has issued a summary judgment order in favor of Mentor Graphics invalidating all asserted claims of three patents asserted by Synopsys, Inc.
  
  
• ISSI to License Spansion HyperFlash Memory and HyperBus Interface (Monday Jan. 12, 2015)
  Integrated Silicon Solution and Spansion today announced a licensing agreement that provides ISSI access to Spansion's HyperFlash™ memory and HyperBus™ technology portfolio, as well as access to MirrorBit™ technology in Spansion's foundries.
  
  
• UltraSoC granted patent on USB based debug interface (Monday Oct. 13, 2014)
  UltraSoC Technologies announced today that it had been granted patents for its pioneering debug hub. This innovation enables a single physical chip interface, such as USB or PCIe, to be used simultaneously for normal system communications and for the purpose of debugging and on-chip analytics.
  
  
• Synopsys Plans Appeal in Mentor v. EVE (Monday Oct. 13, 2014)
  Synopsys has announced that the company plans to appeal the October 10 verdict by a jury in Portland, Oregon in the case of Mentor Graphics Corporation v. EVE-USA, Inc. et al.
  
  
• Mentor Graphics Wins Patent Infringement Case, Awarded Damages (Friday Oct. 10, 2014)
  Mentor Graphics today announced that a Portland, Oregon jury delivered a verdict in favor of Mentor in a trial in which Mentor asserted infringement of one of its patents against Emulation and Verification Engineering S.A. (EVE) and Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS).
  
  
• Entropic, ViXS Systems Settle All Litigation, Execute Cross-License (Tuesday Sep. 16, 2014)
  Entropic and ViXS Systems today announced they have settled all outstanding litigation between the companies and have agreed to a cross-license to the patents at issue in the litigation.
  
  
• INSIDE Secure NFC patents licensed to smartphone manufacturer LG (Tuesday Aug. 19, 2014)
  INSIDE Secure today announced that France Brevets and NFC Technology, LLC have signed a worldwide royalty-bearing Near Field Communications (NFC) patent license with LG Electronics, Inc. (LG).
  
  
• Sonics Announces Patent Non-Assert Agreement with Qualcomm (Wednesday Jul. 02, 2014)
  Sonics, Inc., the world’s foremost supplier of on-chip network (NoC) technologies and services, today announced that it has entered into a patent non-assert agreement with Qualcomm.
  
  
• Tela Resolves Patent Dispute with Google and Pantech (Thursday Jun. 12, 2014)
  Tela Innovations, Inc. announced that it has resolved its pending patent infringement litigation with Google by a mutual license agreement between the two companies. Tela also reached a separate agreement to settle its pending litigation with Pantech of Korea. Terms of the agreements will remain confidential.
  
  
• Rambus Signs Comprehensive License Agreement with Qualcomm (Wednesday Jun. 11, 2014)
  
  
  
• InterDigital Announces Patent License Agreement With Samsung (Tuesday Jun. 03, 2014)
  InterDigital announced that the company's patent licensing subsidiaries have entered into a patent license agreement with Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. The multi-year agreement also resolves all pending litigation between the companies.
  
  
• Acacia Subsidiary Partners With a Leading Semiconductor Company on Patents Related to DisplayPort and MIPI DSI (Tuesday Apr. 15, 2014)
  Acacia Research Corporation (NASDAQ: ACTG) announced today that a subsidiary has partnered with a leading semiconductor company on patents related to high speed digital display interface technology used in industry standards such as DisplayPort and DisplayPort-related technologies and also MIPI DSI.
  
  
• Cryptography Research and Fairchild Semiconductor Sign Patent License Agreement for DPA Countermeasures (Wednesday Apr. 09, 2014)
  Cryptography Research, a division of Rambus, and Fairchild Semiconductor today announced they have signed a patent license agreement allowing for the use of CRI’s patented inventions in Fairchild’s integrated circuits.
  
  
• InterDigital and Fujitsu Limited Agree to Worldwide Patent License Agreement (Monday Apr. 07, 2014)
  
  
  
• Rambus and Nanya Sign Patent License Agreement (Monday Mar. 24, 2014)
  Rambus and Nanya today announced they have signed a broad five-year patent license agreement. This agreement allows for the use of certain high-performance, low-power patented innovations developed by Rambus in Nanya DRAM products and enables future technology collaboration.
  
  
• Qualcomm Acquires Palm, IPAQ and Bitfone Patent Portfolio from HP (Tuesday Jan. 28, 2014)
  Qualcomm and HP today announced that Qualcomm has acquired a patent portfolio from Hewlett-Packard Company, Hewlett-Packard Development Co LP and Palm Inc. The portfolio, comprising approximately 1,400 granted patents and pending patent applications from the US and approximately 1,000 granted patents and pending patent applications from other countries, covers technologies that include fundamental mobile operating system techniques.
  
  
• Cadence Design Systems and Berkeley Design Automation Settle Lawsuit (Thursday Jan. 23, 2014)
  Cadence and Berkeley Design Automation today announced that the companies have reached a settlement agreement in the case filed by Cadence against BDA last year.
  
  
• MPEG LA Announces License Terms for High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC/H.265) (Friday Jan. 17, 2014)
  MPEG LA, LLC announced today that a group of 25 companies have agreed on HEVC license terms expected to issue as part of an HEVC Patent Portfolio License in early 2014.
  
  
• Another Sidense Win against Kilopass in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Wednesday Jan. 08, 2014)
  Sidense today announced that a panel of judges in the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit instructed the District Court for the Northern District of California to reconsider its ruling denying Sidense an award of the attorney’s fees it incurred in successfully defending the patent infringement lawsuit filed against it by Kilopass Technology Inc.
  
  
• WiLAN Enters into Patent Agreement with Panasonic (Tuesday Dec. 17, 2013)
  Wi-LANhas entered into a patent assignment agreement with Panasonic under which Panasonic will assign to Collabo Innovations Inc., a new WiLAN subsidiary, certain patents from Panasonic Automotive & Industrial Systems Co., one of Panasonic's internal companies.
  
  
• Rambus and Micron Sign License Agreement (Tuesday Dec. 10, 2013)
  Rambus and Micron Technology today announced they have signed a broad patent cross license agreement. Under the agreement, Micron gains the right to use any Rambus patent for the manufacture of specified integrated circuit products, including any memory integrated circuit products.
  
  
• Bridge Crossing LLC Announces Sale of Patents Purchased From MIPS Technologies (Thursday Dec. 05, 2013)
  Allied Security Trust (AST) announced today that Bridge Crossing LLC, a company affiliated with AST, will sell the patents and patent applications it purchased on February 7, 2013 from MIPS Technologies, Inc.