Patent Law

The following is excerpted from an item that appeared at Design & Reuse on October 21, 2008:

Patriot Scientific Corporation today announced that Royal Philips Electronics has purchased a Moore Microprocessor Patent? (MMP) Portfolio license from the TPL Group to cover its recently acquired business unit, Respironics, which is a leader in the respiratory supplier market. Royal Philips Electronics, headquartered in the Netherlands, serving more than 60 countries worldwide with 123,800 employees, purchased its initial MMP license in 2007.

Industry leaders including Hewlett Packard, Kenwood, Sony, Robert Bosch, Philips, Nokia, DirecTV and Fujitsu are among the more than fifty global companies from the U.S., Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Europe that have purchased MMP Portfolio licenses.

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