Patent Law

The following is excerpted from a March 24, 2010 Taipei Times article by Lisa Wang:

Nanya Technology Corp, the nation?s biggest computer memory chipmaker, yesterday won a patent case against US chip company LSI Corp after the US International Trade Commission (ITC) ruled that the Taiwanese chipmaker did not infringe on LSI?s intellectual property rights.

The commission said in the final determination that claims leveled by LSI against Nanya Technology and other companies, including Taiwan?s Powerchip Semiconductor Corp, were invalid and no violation was found, the company said in a statement yesterday.

In other developments, Infineon AG?s patent-infringement complaint seeking to block US imports of computer-memory chips by Japan?s Elpida Memory Inc will be investigated by the ITC.

The Washington-based agency said on Monday it would consider the complaint filed last month and decide whether to ban the imports. Infineon, Europe?s second-largest chipmaker, claimed that Elpida infringes on four patents related to DRAM chips.

In addition to Tokyo-based Elpida, the complaint also names Kingston Technology Co of Fountain Valley, California; Taiwanese memory module suppliers A-Data Technology Co, Apacer Technology Inc and Transcend Information Inc; Buffalo Technology Inc of Nagoya, Japan, and Austin, Texas; Corsair Memory of Fremont, California; and Mushkin Inc of Englewood, Colorado, the ITC said.

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