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German Court Affirms Validity of MMP Portfolio Patent

By Philip Brooks

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A reader alerted me to the following February 3, 2009 item from Business Wire:

Today Alliacense announced that the German Federal Patent Court (Bundespatentgericht, BPatG) in Munich affirmed the validity of DE 6,903,356 8T2, the German counterpart to EP 0,786,730. The affirmed German Patent and its EP counterparts cover technology utilized in a majority of microprocessor-based products manufactured and sold today. EP'730 is the European counterpart of the basic MMP Portfolio application filed in 1989, which resulted in seven issued US patents, four of which remain the subject of on-going patent suits between The TPL Group and several non-US companies.

The sweeping scope of applications using MMP Portfolio design techniques continues to encourage the world's leading manufacturers of end user products from around the globe to become MMP Portfolio licensees. Over 50 global companies from the US, Europe, Japan, Korea and Taiwan have licensed the MMP Portfolio technologies, including many industry leaders such as Fujitsu, Hewlett Packard, Kenwood, Mattel, Nokia, Philips, Sony and Toshiba.

Read the full release here. Thanks to the reader from Germany, for the heads up!

Full post as published by Philip Brooks’ Patent Infringement Updates on February 05, 2009 (boomark / email).