Patent Law

The following is excerpted from an April 22, 2009 Fish & Richardson press release at Marketwire:

Fish & Richardson has won an International Trade Commission (ITC) ruling for Phison Electronics Corp., a large Taiwanese electronics company that manufactures flash memory products, in a patent infringement case brought by SanDisk Corp. On April 10, 2009, an Administrative Law Judge in the ITC issued an initial determination finding no infringement by Phison products.

The ITC case began in 2007 when SanDisk asserted five patents against dozens of companies that make, sell, and import USB flash cards, MP3 players, and other flash storage products. Four of the five patents were asserted against Phison products. By the time of the ITC trial, only one patent remained in the case against Phison. The ALJ's ruling determined that Phison's products do not infringe that remaining patent.

Read the full press release here.