Patent Law

The following is excerpted from a December 4, 2009 post by Jenna Greene, Senior Reporter, at the BLT (Blog of LegalTimes):

It's been a busy week at the International Trade Commission, with four new, high-stakes intellectual property complaints filed in the last four days. Considering just 25 other cases have been filed all year, it's a quite a glut.

On Dec. 1, Samsung Electronics sued Sharp Electronics Corp. for infringing its patents related to liquid crystal display devices used in televisions. Fish & Richardson partner Ruffin Cordell filed the suit.

Also on Dec. 1, semiconductor maker Analog Devices Inc. filed suit at the ITC against Knowles Electronics of Itasca, Ill. and Mouser Electronics of Mansfield, Texas over surface mount MEMS microphones and products.

Next on the ITC docket is a case filed on Dec. 2 by Nebraska-based Prism Technologies against BlackBerry maker Research in Motion over authentication systems related to its handheld electronic devices and associated software.

Also on Dec. 2, Taiwan-based semiconductor maker Richtek Technology Corp. sued uPI Semiconductor Corp. of Taiwan; Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif.; Sapphire Technology Limited of Hong Kong; Diamond Multimedia, Inc. of Chatsworth, Calif.; and XFX Technology, Inc. of Ontario, Calif.. At issue: patent rights for DC DC controllers.

Read the full post here.