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• Kilopass Says Business Tort Case a Legal Maneuver; Remains Focused on Winning Patent Infringement Trial (Wednesday Sep. 07, 2011)
  Kilopass today issued the following statement regarding the business tort lawsuit filed on August 19, 2011 against Kilopass and its CEO, Charlie Cheng. Kilopass believes that there is no merit to the allegations of the complaint and that Sidense’s action is the result of the weakness of its patent infringement defense.
  
  
• Markman Ruling Puts Sidense in Strong Position to Win Lawsuit (Tuesday Sep. 06, 2011)
  Sidense announced that on August 31, 2011, District Court Judge Honorable Susan Illston issued her patent claim construction ruling which, as expected, indicates that Kilopass should not be able to win its patent infringement lawsuit against Sidense.
  
  
• Sidense Sues Kilopass and CEO, Charlie Cheng (Saturday Sep. 03, 2011)
  Sidense is seeking a jury trial and damages for five causes of action, including Defamation, Intentional Interference with Contractual Relations, Intentional Interference with Prospective Economic Advantage, Unfair Competition under California Business and Professions Code as well as Federal Unfair Competition.
  
  
• Kilopass Receives Favorable Markman Order Ahead of ItsPatent Infringement Trial Against Sidense (Saturday Sep. 03, 2011)
  Kilopass today announced that U.S. District Court has delivered a Markman Order favorable to Kilopass on all of the ten most disputed patent terms in its litigation against Sidense.
  
  
• USPTO Examiner Maintains Position on Sidense's '855 Patent - Upholding Its Validity Over the Kilopass Peng Patents (Friday Sep. 02, 2011)
  Sidense announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Examiner has reasserted his position that all eleven claims in Sidense’s U.S. Patent No. 7,402,855 (‘855) patent are valid over the Kilopass Peng patents, once again rejecting Kilopass’ arguments to the contrary.
  
  
• MOSAID Expands Patent Infringement Suit Against Elpida (Monday Aug. 15, 2011)
  MOSAID today announced that it has added a mobile Dynamic Random Access Memory (mobile DRAM) patent to its infringement claims against Elpida Memory, Inc., Buffalo Inc., and Axiontech Technologies.
  
  
• MOSAID Announces ARM Complaint (Tuesday Aug. 09, 2011)
  ARM, in its complaint, is seeking a declaration of non-infringement and invalidity with respect to the same seven U.S. patents at issue in MOSAID's suit against NVIDIA, Freescale and Interphase.
  
  
• MOSAID to Sell 'Covenant Not to Sue' on Cellular Handset Patents at ICAP Patent Brokerage Auction (Tuesday Aug. 09, 2011)
  MOSAID today announced that it will offer for sale a 'Covenant Not to Sue' (CNS) on four cellular handset patents at a sealed-bid auction to be held September 27, 2011 by ICAP Patent Brokerage.
  
  
• InterDigital Files Complaint Against Nokia, Huawei and ZTE With International Trade Commission (Tuesday Jul. 26, 2011)
  The complaint alleges that the Respondents have engaged in unfair trade practices by making for importation into the United States, importing, and selling after importation, certain 3G wireless devices
  
  
• GSI Technology Files Antitrust Lawsuit against Cypress Semiconductor; ITC Institutes Investigation in Response to Cypress Complaint (Tuesday Jul. 26, 2011)
  GSI Technology, Inc. announced that on July 22, 2011 it filed a complaint against Cypress Semiconductor Corporation in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California charging Cypress with conducting an unlawful combination and conspiracy to monopolize the market for high-performance static random access memory (SRAM) devices, known as fast synchronous Quad Data Rate (or QDR) SRAMs and Double Data Rate (or DDR) SRAMs.
  
  
• MOSAID Sues HTC and Sony Ericsson on Newly Acquired Cellular Handset Patents (Thursday Jul. 07, 2011)
  MOSAID today announced that it is suing HTC America, Inc. and Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications (USA), Inc. for infringing three U.S. patents that are essential to all cellular telephones that implement the emergency 911 (E-911) standard, as mandated by the U.S. FCC.
  
  
• WiLAN and Texas Instruments Reach Agreement to End Litigation (Monday Jul. 04, 2011)
  WiLAN today announced that the Company and Texas Instruments reached an agreement to end litigation regarding Bluetooth (No. 2:10-cv-00124) in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.
  
  
• Houses passes patent reform bill (Friday Jun. 24, 2011)
  The U.S. House of Representatives passed a patent reform bill by a vote of 304-117, the last major hurdle in revamping the U.S. patent system.
  
  
• U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) Institutes an Investigation of Certain Cisco Equipment Based on MOSAID Complaint (Friday Jun. 17, 2011)
  MOSAID today announced that the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has voted to institute an investigation of certain Cisco products, based on a complaint filed by MOSAID.
  
  
• Rambus and Freescale Sign Patent License Agreement (Tuesday Jun. 07, 2011)
  Rambus announced today it has signed a patent license agreement with Freescale Semiconductor. This agreement covers the use of Rambus patented innovations for memory controllers and serial links in a broad range of logic integrated circuit (IC) products offered by Freescale.
  
  
• MOSAID Files Complaint Against Cisco at International Trade Commission (ITC) (Thursday May. 19, 2011)
  MOSAID Technologies Inc. (TSX:MSD) today initiated legal action against Cisco Systems, Inc., by filing a complaint for patent infringement with the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) in Washington, D.C.
  
  
• Rambus Receives Decision from Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Friday May. 13, 2011)
  Rambus today announced that the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) has issued its decisions in cases with Hynix Semiconductor and Micron Technology Inc.. In the ruling in the Micron case, the CAFC affirmed the district court's determination that Rambus spoliated documents, but vacated the court's dismissal sanction and remanded the case for further consideration by the U.S. District of Delaware Court.
  
  
• MOSAID Initiates Patent Infringement Litigation Against Elpida (Tuesday May. 10, 2011)
  MOSAID today announced that it has commenced patent infringement litigation against Elpida Memory, Inc. of Japan. Two other companies, Buffalo Inc. and Axiontech, are also named as defendants in the suit, which was filed on May 10, 2011, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division.
  
  
• WiLAN Confirms Dismissal of Litigations Scheduled for Trial in Early 2011 (Wednesday Apr. 27, 2011)
  Wi-LAN today confirmed that four litigations that were scheduled for trial in early 2011 have been dismissed as a result of agreements signed with major semiconductor and product vendors.
  
  
• Infineon Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Atmel (Wednesday Apr. 13, 2011)
  Infineon and its subsidiary Infineon Technologies North America Corp. today filed a patent lawsuit against Atmel. Infineon alleges that Atmel infringes the Infineon patents by making, using, selling, offering to sell and/or importing into the United States various products, including microcontrollers marketed under names AVR, XMEGA, and maXTouch, and related products used in automotive, industrial, and touch screen applications.
  
  
• MOSAID Files Patent Infringement Suit Against NVIDIA, Freescale and Interphase (Thursday Apr. 07, 2011)
  MOSAID today announced that it has initiated patent infringement litigation against NVIDIA Corporation, Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. and Interphase Corporation.
  
  
• MOSAID Files Wireless Patent Infringement Litigation (Thursday Mar. 17, 2011)
  MOSAID today announced that it has initiated wireless patent infringement litigation against the following companies: AsusTek Computer Inc.; Atheros Communications, Inc.; Canon U.S.A., Inc.; CSR plc; Dell, Inc.; Digi International Inc.; Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.; Intel Corporation; Lexmark International, Inc.; Marvell Semiconductor, Inc.; Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.; Ralink Technology Corporation; Realtek Semiconductor; Research in Motion Corporation; Wasp Barcode Technologies, Ltd.; Wistron Corporation; and Venture Research, Inc.
  
  
• U.S. District Court Denies Sidense's Motion for Delay (Friday Feb. 11, 2011)
  Kilopass today announced the U.S. District Court has denied Sidense motion to delay Kilopass’ lawsuit pending U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) reexamination of all three Kilopass U.S. Patents (No. 6,856,540, No. 6,777,757, and No. 6,940,751).
  
  
• MPEG LA Announces Call for Patents Essential to VP8 Video Codec (Thursday Feb. 10, 2011)
  MPEG LA, LLC announces a call for patents essential to the VP8 video codec specification used to deliver video images.
  
  
• USPTO Validates Sidense's Non-infringement Position and Rejects Two Kilopass Patents (Friday Feb. 04, 2011)
  Sidense announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has validated Sidense's non-infringement position and rejected all claims of two Kilopass' patents it asserted against Sidense in the Kilopass v. Sidense lawsuit.
  
  
• USPTO Validates One of Three Key Kilopass 1T Anti-Fuse Patents Asserted Against Sidense (Friday Feb. 04, 2011)
  Kilopass Technology today announced the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) confirmed all claims in its 6,940,751 patent (‘751 patent) on the 1T anti-fuse memory bit cell. This is one of the three patents asserted against Sidense in the US Federal District Court case.
  
  
• Patriot Scientific and TPL Announce New MMP Licenses and Support for Licensing and Litigation Efforts (Friday Feb. 04, 2011)
  Patriot Scientific, The TPL Group, and Alliacense announced today that during December 2010 and January 2011, MMP Patent Portfolio licenses were entered into with several companies in the telecommunications and industrial equipment industry segments.
  
  
• WiLAN Provides Settlement Update (Tuesday Feb. 01, 2011)
  WiLAN today announced that the Company has reached settlement terms with Marvell Semiconductor, Inc., 2Wire, Inc., Belkin International, Inc., Netgear, Inc., Lenovo (United States), Inc., and Westell Technologies Inc. (collectively, the “defendants”).
  
  
• USPTO Affirms Kilopass Ownership of The 1T Anti-Fuse Memory Bit Cell (Thursday Jan. 27, 2011)
  Kilopass Technology announced today the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has made two rulings on its request to re-examine Sidense’s patent No. 7,402,855. It affirmed Kilopass ownership of the fundamental 1T anti-fuse bit cell, and it also affirmed Sidense’s patent claims on peripheral circuitry.
  
  
• Sidense Granted all Claims by USPTO in Key Patent Dispute (Wednesday Jan. 26, 2011)
  Sidense has won a quick decisive victory over Kilopass Technology in its attempt to invalidate Sidense's U.S. Patent No. 7,402,855 ('855) directed to Sidense's 1T OTP technology.