Taiwan-based IC design house Richtek has announced that it has filed a patent infringement complaint with the US International Trade Commission (ITC) against uPI Semiconductor, AMD,...
A patent war has begun among Taiwan-based analog IC makers as more companies have entered the analog IC market. Richtek Technology recently filed suit against uPI Semiconductor, a...
A US Court in Wisconsin on November 20 made a judgment that Quanta Storage, the largest Taiwan-based ODM/OEM maker of slim-type optical disc drives, should pay US$14.5 million to...
Intel and AMD have announced a comprehensive agreement to end all outstanding legal disputes between the companies, including antitrust litigation and patent cross license disputes...
Elan Microelectronics expects to ship 500,000-600,000 touchscreen ICs used in handsets in the fourth quarter, about three times the volume it shipped in the third quarter. However,...
Nanya Technology has said that the US International Trade Commission (ITC) on September 21 made an initial determination in favor of the company in a patent infringement case filed...
Shanghai-based chip equipment maker Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment (AMEC) on September 9 announced it has prevailed in a patent infringement lawsuit filed against its subsidiary...
Taiwan-based optical disc maker Prodisc Technology's request for corporate restructuring was dismissed by a district court in Taipei on August 11. Prodisc claimed that the move was...
The Taiwan High Court has ruled in favor of Japan-based Nichia in a patent infringement lawsuit against Taiwan-based LED packaging house Everlight Electronic.
China-based Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) became the top recipient of wafer foundry patents approved by the China authorities in 2008, whereas Taiwan...
SanDisk, via its licensing arm SD-3C LLC, is calling on Taiwan's government to help crackdown on the illegal export of non-certified SecureDigital (SD) memory cards from Taiwan, according...
The United States Customs and Border Protection agency (Customs) on July 8, 2009 issued a ruling in agreement with Vizio that all current models of Vizio televisions do not infringe...
A US federal court in Texas has ruled that Taiwan-based Quanta Computer infringed optical disc drive patents owned by Japan-based LaserDynamics and awarded compensation of US$52 mi...
Taiwan graphics card makers Asustek Computer, Micro-Star International (MSI) and Gigabyte Technology have all been affected by Nvidia's patent dispute with Rambus, according to sources...
