Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Flash storage pioneer SanDisk has loadged a patent infringement lawsuit against 25 companies, many based in Asia, claiming that they infringe on patents it holds for flash card technology. The suit, filed in the US District Court in Wisconson and the US International Trade Commission, against some of the biggest names in the Flash storage business and is designed to force them pay licensing fees.
SanDisk, founded in 1988, is the original
inventor of Flash storage cards and currently has approximately 780
issued US patents, and more than 400 foreign patents. It claims to be
the only company, worldwide, that has the rights to both manufacture
and sell every major flash card format, including CompactFlash, SD,
miniSD, microSD, MultiMediaCard, Reduced Size MultiMediaCard, Memory
Stick PRO and related Memory Stick products, xD-Picture Card and USB
flash drives.
The list of companies named in the lawsuit includes some of the most
recognizable names in the storage business including LG Electronics,
Imation/Memorex, Verbatim, Kingston, and Silicon Motion Technology,
among others.
SanDisk has indicated that its aim is to force the named companies to
license its technology or to stop their products being imported into
the US.
“These actions demonstrate SanDisk’s long-term commitment to enforcing
its patents, both to protect our investment in research and development
by obtaining a fair return on that investment, and out of fairness to
third-parties that participate in our patent licensing program,” said
E. Earle Thompson, Chief Intellectual Property Counsel at SanDisk.
“Our goal is to resolve these matters by offering the defendants the
opportunity to participate in our patent licensing program for card and
system technology. Otherwise, we will aggressively pursue these
actions, seeking a prompt judicial resolution awarding damages,
obtaining injunctive relief and banning importation of infringing
product.”
David Bass
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