Post a CommentTessera ITC action to proceed
The ITC action involves chips found in wireless handsets, among other products.
By Suzanne Deffree, Managing Editor, News -- Electronic News, 3/28/2008
Tessera Technologies Inc announced this week that it expects its legal action against high-tech industry players including Motorola, Freescale, and Qualcomm to proceed at the US International Trade Commission (ITC), an independent federal agency determining import injury to US industries.
The ITC action (investigation 337-TA-605 or the 605 investigation) involves chips found in wireless handsets, among other products. The named respondents of the 605 investigation include ATI Technologies, Freescale, Motorola, Qualcomm, Spansion, STMicroelectronics, and their various affiliates.
Tessera said it was orally informed Thursday by the general counsel's office of the ITC that has overturned the recent decision to stay the wireless ITC action. As of Thursday, Tessera had not yet received the ITC's written notice announcing this decision, but said it expects that the written notice will be available shortly.
In the 605 ITC action, Tessera is seeking an exclusion order barring the importation, sale for importation, or sale after importation of products that the provider of miniaturization technologies for the electronics industry believes infringe its patents and are unlawfully competing with products from its licensees. The patents in question are numbers 5,852,326 and 6,433,419.
Tessera, like many other companies in the high-tech arena, has been turning more and more to the ITC for resolution of patent issues. Tessera is currently involved in ITC actions with more than 10 companies, including one investigation that involves DRAM technologies.
