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Tuesday 5 October 2010
Kodak withdraws charge against Taiwan-based Ability Enterprise
Taiwan-based digital camera ODM maker Ability Enterprise on October 4 announced US-based Eastman Kodak has withdrawn from the US Court for the Western District of New York a charge...
Thursday 5 August 2010
Royalty fees account for 18-19% of Blu-ray Disc player production cost, say Taiwan makers
While production costs for a Blu-ray Disc (BD) player have been reduced to US$75-80 currently due to decreased costs of pick-up heads and chipsets, royalty fees for BD patents may...
Friday 16 April 2010
Taiwan Blu-ray Disc consortium plans to negotiate lower royalty fees
Taiwan Blu-ray Disc (BD) Consortium, a special interest group formed by Taiwan-based makers of BD optical discs, disc drives and components, plans to consolidate all members concerned...
Tuesday 16 March 2010
Blu-ray Disc player maker Forworld says royalty charge too high
As the BD4C Licensing Group began to charge royalty fees for their patents on the Blu-ray Disc (BD) format on March 1, 2010, Taiwan-based BD player maker Forworld Electronics has...
Thursday 7 January 2010
New licensing contracts between Philips and CMC, Ritek effective for only 3 years
The new licensing contracts that Philips signed with Taiwan's two largest optical disc makers - CMC Magnetics and Ritek - will only remain in effect for three years instead of 10...
Monday 4 January 2010
Philips makes large cuts in CD-RW, DVD royalties for CMC, Ritek
Royal Philips Electronics has reduced royalty charges for CD-RW, DVD+R, DVD-R, DVD+RW and DVD-RW optical disc formats by 71.4-72.2% from US$0.035-0.036 per disc originally to US$0.01...
Monday 20 July 2009
Optical disc maker Princo fronts security deposit in order to pursue CD-R royalty case with Philips
Second-tier Taiwan-based optical disc maker, Princo, has offered a security deposit of NT$300 million (US$9.1 million) in cash and stocks to a northern Taiwan court in an attempt...
Tuesday 7 July 2009
MediaTek deal with Qualcomm reportedly to be finalized shortly
Recent reports in Taiwan's Chinese-language press have recently claimed that MediaTek is close to signing a WCDMA licensing deal with Qualcomm, but the Taiwan-based IC designer described...
Friday 24 April 2009
Philips wins lawsuit to claim over 7 billion-yen royalty payment from Taiwan CD-R maker Princo
The Taiwan Intellectual Property Court (IPC) on April 23 determined that Princo, a Taiwan-based maker of blank optical discs, shall pay a total of 7.606 billion yen (US$77.6 million)...
Friday 26 December 2008
Philips accuses Taiwan optical disc maker Lead Data of royalty underpayment
Royal Philips Electronics on December 16 charges filed with Taiwan's Intellectual Property Court against Lead Data, a Taiwan-based maker of blank optical discs and a licensee of Philips...
Tuesday 5 August 2008
Prodisc seeks court protection from creditors; blames Philips for its financial woes
Prodisc Technology, the third largest Taiwan-based blank optical disc maker and the fourth largest worldwide, on August 4 announced that it has made a request to a local Taiwan court...
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