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• InterDigital and Teltronic Sign Patent License to Cover 4G Technologies (Thursday Nov. 28, 2013)
  InterDigital, Inc. (Nasdaq:IDCC), today announced that its patent holding subsidiaries have entered into a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-bearing patent license agreement with Teltronic S.A. Unipersonal for 4G technologies, including LTE.
  
  
• WiLAN and InfoSonics Sign Wireless License (Monday Nov. 25, 2013)
  Wi-LAN today announced that InfoSonics has signed a five-year running royalty license to WiLAN's wireless patent portfolio including HSPA and WCDMA-related technologies.
  
  
• Cryptography Research and Tiempo SAS Sign License Agreement for DPA Countermeasures (Wednesday Nov. 13, 2013)
  Cryptography Research and Tiempo today announced they have signed an architecture license agreement allowing for the use of Cryptography Research’s patented security inventions in Tiempo’s integrated circuits.
  
  
• InterDigital Announces Formation of Signal Trust (Friday Oct. 18, 2013)
  InterDigital today announced the establishment of the Signal Trust for Wireless Innovation, which will monetize a large InterDigital patent portfolio related to cellular infrastructure.
  
  
• InterDigital and Panasonic Mobile Communications Expand Patent License to Cover 4G (Thursday Sep. 26, 2013)
  InterDigital today announced that its patent holding subsidiaries have amended their worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-bearing patent license agreement with Panasonic Mobile Communications to add coverage for 4G technologies, including LTE and LTE-Advanced.
  
  
• WiLAN and Alcatel-Lucent Enter into License Agreement and Settle all Litigations (Tuesday Sep. 17, 2013)
  The parties have agreed to settle all pending litigations in the United States District Courts for the Southern District of Florida and the Eastern District of Texas involving CDMA, 3GPP, HSPA, Wi-Fi and LTE technologies.
  
  
• WiLAN and Samsung Agree to a Long-Term License (Friday Jun. 21, 2013)
  WiLAN today announced that WiLAN and Samsung have entered into a broad long-term license renewal to WiLAN's patents for Samsung's wireless mobile products and networking infrastructure equipment.
  
  
• Rambus Signs Comprehensive Agreement with STMicroelectronics (Tuesday Jun. 18, 2013)
  Rambus today announced it has signed a license agreement with STMicroelectronics. The agreement expands the ST relationship with CRI, furthering its adoption of DPA countermeasures into multimedia chipsets and accelerating its broad support for CryptoFirewall™ core technology.
  
  
• Infineon and Atmel Reach Agreement to Settle Patent Dispute (Friday Jun. 14, 2013)
  Infineon today announced that it has settled its patent infringement claim against Atmel Corporation, and both Infineon and Atmel have agreed to seek dismissal of all pending patent infringement claims.
  
  
• Rambus and SK Hynix Sign Patent License Agreement (Wednesday Jun. 12, 2013)
  Rambus and SK Hynix today announced they have signed a five-year patent license agreement for the use of Rambus memory-related patented innovations in SK Hynix semiconductor products and have also settled all outstanding claims.
  
  
• WiLAN Acquires Cypress Semiconductor Portfolio (Wednesday Jun. 12, 2013)
  WiLAN today announced that it has acquired a portfolio of patents from Cypress Semiconductor Corporation related to phase locked loop technology
  
  
• Sidense Wins: United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Affirms District Court Decisions (Thursday Apr. 11, 2013)
  In its one-word opinion, the Federal Circuit “AFFIRMED” Sidense’s summary judgment of non-infringement on Kilopass’ patent claims, as well as the dismissal of all of Kilopass’ remaining claims against Sidense.
  
  
• Cryptography Research and StarChip sign patent license agreement for DPA countermeasures (Thursday Apr. 04, 2013)
  Cryptography Research and StarChip today announces that they have signed a patent license agreement allowing the use of Cryptography Research’s patented technology in StarChip products.
  
  
• Google and MPEG LA Announce Agreement Covering VP8 Video Format (Friday Mar. 08, 2013)
  Google Inc. and MPEG LA, LLC announced today that they have entered into agreements granting Google a license to techniques that may be essential to VP8 and earlier-generation VPx video compression technologies under patents owned by 11 patent holders.
  
  
• Tela Innovations, Inc. Files Complaint at the U.S. International Trade Commission for Unfair Trade Practices Stemming from Patent Infringement (Monday Feb. 11, 2013)
  Tela Innovations, Inc. today announced that it filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) against HTC Corporation, HTC America, Inc., LG Electronics, Inc., LG Electronics U.S.A., Inc., LG Electronics MobileComm U.S.A., Inc., Motorola Mobility LLC, Nokia Corporation; Nokia, Inc.; Pantech Co., Ltd.; and Pantech Wireless, Inc. (collectively, the “Respondents”) alleging that the Respondents have engaged in unfair trade practices by selling for importation into the United States, importing into the United States, and/or selling after importation into the United States certain consumer electronics devices that infringe seven of Tela’s United States patents.
  
  
• AMD reportedly sues former employees over trade secrets (Thursday Jan. 17, 2013)
  Chip vendor Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) has filed a lawsuit against four former employees, accusing them of taking documents containing AMD trade secrets when they went to work for rival Nvidia Corp., according to a report by the Bloomberg news service.
  
  
• InterDigital Files New Complaint Against Huawei, Nokia, Samsung and ZTE with U.S. International Trade Commission (Friday Jan. 04, 2013)
  InterDigital filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission against Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Futurewei Technologies, Inc. d/b/a Huawei Technologies (USA), Huawei Device USA, Inc., Nokia Corporation, Nokia, Inc., Samsung Electronics Company, Ltd., Samsung Electronics America, Inc., Samsung Telecommunications America, LLC, ZTE Corporation and ZTE (USA), Inc. alleging that they engaged in unfair trade practices by selling for importation into the United States, importing into the United States and/or selling after importation into the United States certain 3G and 4G wireless devices (including WCDMA-, cdma2000- and LTE-capable mobile phones, USB sticks, mobile hotspots, laptop computers and tablets, and components of such devices) that infringe up to seven of InterDigital's U.S. patents.
  
  
• Kilopass Outlines its Infringement Case Against Sidense with Appellate Court (Friday Dec. 07, 2012)
  Kilopass today announced that it has filed the initial legal appeal brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, outlining the procedural and legal errors in the U.S. District Court’s decision on Summary Judgment to dismiss the patent infringement case against Sidense.
  
  
• WiLAN Initiates Litigations Against Apple, HTC and Sierra Wireless (Friday Dec. 07, 2012)
  Three of the suits, filed in the Southern District of Florida against Apple, HTC and Sierra Wireless, claim infringement of WiLAN's U.S. Patent Nos. 8,315,640 and 8,311,040 related to LTE technologies.
  
  
• Ericsson takes action for fair and reasonable patent licensing (Tuesday Nov. 27, 2012)
  Ericsson has today filed a lawsuit in the United States against Samsung for infringing its patents, after nearly two years of negotiations failed to reach an agreement.
  
  
• ItoM Successfully Concludes Patent Litigation With Texas Instruments and Honeywell (Tuesday Nov. 20, 2012)
  Semiconductor Ideas to the Market (ItoM) B.V. announced today that it has dismissed Texas Instruments and Honeywell from its patent infringement lawsuit pending in the Eastern District of Texas.
  
  
• HTC and Apple Settle Patent Dispute (Tuesday Nov. 13, 2012)
  HTC and Apple® have reached a global settlement that includes the dismissal of all current lawsuits and a ten-year license agreement. The license extends to current and future patents held by both parties. The terms of the settlement are confidential.
  
  
• Kilopass Files Its Appeal for Both Patent Infringement Case & Tort Case Against Sidense (Monday Oct. 08, 2012)
  Kilopass today appealed both the patent infringement case as well as the tort case against Sidense. On Kilopass’ request the Court issued an appealable judgment, and the case will be heard by the special patent court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C. The appeal process will take approximately 9 – 12 months.
  
  
• Sidense Defeats Kilopass' Remaining Claims; Kilopass' Case is Over (Wednesday Oct. 03, 2012)
  After granting Sidense summary judgment of non-infringement on Kilopass’ patent claims, the Court today dismissed Kilopass’ remaining claims with prejudice and entered Judgment in favor of Sidense
  
  
• WiLAN Initiates LTE-Related Patent Infringement Litigations (Tuesday Oct. 02, 2012)
  WiLAN today announced it has initiated two separate litigations claiming patent infringement in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida against Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc. and against Ericsson, Inc., among other parties.
  
  
• Rambus Receives Decision in SK Hynix Case (Monday Sep. 24, 2012)
  The Honorable Ronald M. Whyte has found that the Rambus patents in this case are valid and infringed by SK Hynix and Rambus is entitled to receive royalty payments for past infringement based on reasonable and non-discriminatory (RAND) rates.
  
  
• WiLAN Announces Consolidation of Cases Involving Apple, HTC and Other Parties (Monday Sep. 17, 2012)
  WiLAN today provided a litigation update regarding the consolidation of two cases before the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Tyler and Marshall Divisions respectively. Both cases pertain to infringement of WiLAN's Patent No. RE37,802 (the "802 patent") related to CDMA and HSPA and U.S. Patent No. 5,282,222 (the "222 patent") related to Wi-Fi and LTE.
  
  
• ItoM Successfully Concludes Patent Litigation With Qualcomm, Broadcom, and Others (Wednesday Aug. 29, 2012)
  ItoM announced today that it has dismissed, with prejudice, several companies, including Qualcomm and Broadcom, from its patent infringement lawsuit currently pending in the Eastern District of Texas. The lawsuit alleges that many companies in the mobile telecommunications space have infringed two of ItoM's patents covering its proprietary transceiver technology.
  
  
• Acacia Subsidiary Enters into Settlement Agreement with Fujitsu Semiconductor America, Inc. and Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited (Tuesday Aug. 28, 2012)
  Acacia Research Corporation (Nasdaq: ACTG) announced today that its subsidiaries including Advanced Data Access LLC and Smart Memory Solutions LLC entered into an agreement with Fujitsu Semiconductor America, Inc. and Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited.
  
  
• EVE Will Continue to Defend Itself Against Mentor Graphics' Patent Infringement Suits (Wednesday Aug. 22, 2012)
  EVE today denied any wrongdoing and reaffirmed that it will continue to defend itself against Mentor Graphics’ patent infringement suits. EVE believes these litigations are unfounded will defend itself through the United States and Japanese court systems until the truth is established.