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• Mentor Graphics Files Patent Infringement Suit against EVE (Monday Aug. 20, 2012)
  Mentor Graphics today announced it had filed another patent infringement suit against EVE in the U.S. Federal District Court for the District of Oregon.
  
  
• Kilopass Plans to Appeal the Summary Judgment Ruling in its Patent Infringement Case Against Sidense (Monday Aug. 20, 2012)
  Kilopass today announced that it plans to appeal the summary judgment ruling recently issued in its patent infringement suit against Sidense. Kilopass’ decision to appeal rests in its conviction that Sidense’s products are infringing on Kilopass’ patents.
  
  
• Sidense wins patent infringement case against Kilopass (Friday Aug. 17, 2012)
  Sidense announced today that the United States District Court for the Northern District of California granted Sidense’s motion for summary judgment of non-infringement of all three Kilopass patents asserted in the lawsuit. The Court determined that no reasonable jury could find that Sidense infringed any claim of Kilopass’ asserted patents. This is a resounding victory for Sidense and Kilopass will not be permitted to present its patent infringement claims to a jury.
  
  
• Rambus Receives Federal Circuit Decision in Patent Reexamination (Thursday Aug. 16, 2012)
  Rambus today announced that the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Federal Circuit) has issued its decision in Rambus's appeal of an ex parte reexamination of Rambus patent No. 6,034,918 (918).
  
  
• InterDigital Prevails in Appeal of Adverse U.S. International Trade Commission Decision in Dispute with Nokia (Thursday Aug. 02, 2012)
  InterDigital today announced that it has prevailed in a key appeal against Nokia in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. The appeal related to the U.S. International Trade Commission's 2009 decision in Investigation No. 337-TA-613 initiated by InterDigital involving Nokia 3G WCDMA handsets and other products.
  
  
• ITC Issues Notice of Final Determination in Rambus Matter (Wednesday Aug. 01, 2012)
  Rambus today announced that the International Trade Commission (ITC) has issued its notice of final determination in the action brought by Rambus against LSI Logic, ST Microelectronics and other Respondents.
  
  
• Garmin Announces Victory in Patent Dispute with Rambus (Friday Jul. 27, 2012)
  Garmin International, Inc., a subsidiary of Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN) announced today that the U.S. International Trade Commission has rejected all of Rambus, Inc.’s patent allegations against Garmin. As a result, the Commission terminated the investigation initiated by Rambus styled In the Matter of Certain Semiconductor Chips and Products Containing Same (Investigation No. 337-TA-753).
  
  
• 13 Companies Cited for Infringement of MMP Portfolio in ITC Complaint (Wednesday Jul. 25, 2012)
  The 13 ITC respondents are: Acer Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Barnes & Noble Inc., Garmin Ltd., HTC Corporation, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., Kyocera Corporation, LG Electronics, Nintendo Co. Ltd., Novatel Wireless Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Sierra Wireless Inc., and ZTE Corporation.
  
  
• Silicon Laboratories Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against MaxLinear (Wednesday Jul. 18, 2012)
  Silicon Laboratories today announced it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against MaxLinear. This lawsuit continues patent litigation against MaxLinear that now involves 20 Silicon Laboratories patents related to RF and mixed-signal design.
  
  
• ITC Extends Target Date of Rambus Matter (Tuesday Jul. 03, 2012)
  Rambus today announced that it has received notification from the International Trade Commission (ITC) extending the target date for completion of its investigation until July 25, 2012.
  
  
• Administrative Law Judge in ITC Investigation Issues Initial Determination Granting LG's Motion to Terminate Investigation as to LG (Wednesday Jun. 06, 2012)
  InterDigital announced that the Administrative Law Judge ("ALJ") overseeing the U.S. International Trade Commission ("ITC") investigation initiated by certain of the Company's wholly owned subsidiaries against LG Electronics in 2011 issued an initial determination granting LG's motion to terminate the investigation as to LG.
  
  
• EVE Contends Mentor Graphics' Patent Infringement Suits Are Unfounded (Thursday May. 31, 2012)
  EVE today denied any wrongdoing and reaffirmed that it will continue to defend itself against Mentor Graphics' patent infringement suits. Further, EVE believes these litigations are unfounded will defend itself through the United States and Japanese court systems until the truth is established.
  
  
• InterDigital Responds to Reports of Huawei European Commission Complaint (Friday May. 25, 2012)
  InterDigital, Inc. issued a response to the announcement by Huawei that they filed a complaint with the European Commission, claiming abuse of patents essential to the 3G (UMTS) standard
  
  
• Core Wireless Launches Patent Litigation Against Apple (Thursday Mar. 01, 2012)
  Core Wireless alleges that wireless communications devices sold by Apple, including the Apple iPad and iPad2, and Apple's iPhone 3G, 3GS, 4 and 4S models, practice a variety of technologies covered by standards essential patents owned by Core Wireless.
  
  
• Apple claims Motorola misusing Qualcomm license (Monday Feb. 13, 2012)
  Apple Inc. filed a lawsuit against Motorola Mobility Inc. Friday (Feb. 10) seeking to block Motorola from asserting patents against Apple in German lawsuit, according to reports.
  
  
• Sonics Responds to Arteris Complaint (Wednesday Feb. 01, 2012)
  Sonics continues to move forward with its patent infringement lawsuit filed against Arteris on November 1, 2011. Sonics has been careful, diligent and deliberate as we developed our technology and products, and we intend to remain factual and accurate in our communications with partners and customers.
  
  
• Arteris Counters Sonics Patent Infringement Claims (Friday Jan. 27, 2012)
  Arteris today announced that it has filed a complaint alleging that Sonics' newest product, SonicsGN (SGN), infringes Arteris patents. In addition, Arteris responded to the lawsuit that was filed by Sonics Inc. on November 1, 2011, asserting that it has not infringed the Sonics patents, and further that the Sonics patents are invalid.
  
  
• WiLAN Files Patent Infringement Suit (Monday Jan. 23, 2012)
  Wi-LAN today announced that it has filed suit against Research In Motion for patent infringement.
  
  
• NVE Files Patent Infringement Suit Against Everspin Technologies (Wednesday Jan. 04, 2012)
  NVE announced today it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Everspin. The lawsuit alleges infringement of three NVE patents related to MRAM.
  
  
• Rambus Settles Stockholder Suit Related to Past Stock Option Backdating (Wednesday Dec. 21, 2011)
  Rambus today announced it has agreed to settle one of the two remaining stock option related lawsuits. The case was scheduled to go to trial in March 2012, and Rambus has agreed to settle the claims against it and the individual defendants for $10.85 million.
  
  
• SMIC Reaches Settlement With Elpida (Friday Dec. 09, 2011)
  SMIC today announces that on 8 December, 2011 it entered into an agreement with Elpida to settle all pending arbitration claims and counterclaims relating to the parties' Amended and Restated 200mm Wafer Products Business Agreement dated 30 August, 2007.
  
  
• Decision Reached in Rambus Price Fixing Case against Hynix and Micron (Thursday Nov. 17, 2011)
  Rambus today announced the jury in its anti-trust case against Hynix Semiconductor and Micron Technology has found in favor of the defendants.
  
  
• Micron Prevails in California Antitrust Trial Against Rambus (Thursday Nov. 17, 2011)
  Micron today confirmed that a jury in the California state court antitrust trial of Rambus Inc. v. Micron Technology et al. reached a verdict in its favor, clearing Micron of any and all liability.
  
  
• Sonics Continues Lawsuit Against Arteris for Patent Infringement (Tuesday Nov. 15, 2011)
  Following the filing of Sonics, Inc.'s November 1, 2011 lawsuit against Arteris, Inc. for patent infringement, the company is proceeding with the assertions as outlined in the formal complaint.
  
  
• Validity of WiLAN's 759 Patent Confirmed by US Patent Office (Monday Nov. 14, 2011)
  Wi-LAN today announced that the USPTOhas confirmed the validity of all key claims in WiLAN’s U.S. Patent No.6,549,759. The re-examination of the 759 Patent was requested in January 2010 by Broadcom Corporation (“Broadcom”) and Intel Corporation (“Intel”), who were then involved in litigations with WiLAN concerning the patent.
  
  
• Kilopass Announces the US District Court Has Denied Sidense's Latest Attempted Defense in the Patent Infringement Case (Friday Nov. 04, 2011)
  Kilopass today announced that the U.S. District Court denied Sidense's motion to amend its invalidity defense relating to Kilopass' Patent Number US 6,940,751 ('751).
  
  
• Arteris Rejects Sonics Inc. Patent Claims (Thursday Nov. 03, 2011)
  A day after it was sued for patent infringement by network-on-chip specialist Sonics Inc., Arteris Inc. released a statement defending its technology as unique. The company provided a few details of its market traction to support its claim.
  
  
• Sonics Files Lawsuit Against Arteris for Patent Infringement (Wednesday Nov. 02, 2011)
  Sonics today announced that the company filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Arteris, Inc. on November 1, 2011 in the United States District Court, Northern District of California. The suit alleges that Arteris is willfully infringing on seven of Sonics’ technology patents.
  
  
• Infineon and Lantiq Achieve Lawsuit Withdrawal and License Grant Without Monetary Consideration in Patent Litigation with CIF Licensing LLC (Thursday Oct. 20, 2011)
  Infineon Technologies and Lantiq Deutschland have successfully defended themselves against patent infringement allegations asserted by CIF Licensing LLC (CIF). CIF, a member of the General Electric Group, had filed suit against Deutsche Telekom AG in October 2007.
  
  
• VIA Sues Apple for Patent Infringement (Friday Sep. 23, 2011)
  VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator of power efficient x86 processor platforms, today announced it has taken legal action against Apple Inc., filing a complaint with the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) and the US District Court of Delaware for patent infringement by Apple’s iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV product lines, and associated software.