Sunday, January 6, 2008

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Verbatim ~part#89108~ 5.25 Inch 1.2GB Re-writable Optical Disc

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Verbatim -part#87895-OPTICAL DISK 5.25 RW 600MB 512B/S

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Broadcom wins case

Broadcom wins case
BY REUTERS NEWS SERVICE ,
[ Los Angeles | Reuters News Service, 2 January 2008 ] - A federal judge in California ruled on Monday that wireless chip maker Qualcomm must immediately stop selling third-generation, or 3G, WCDMA cellular chips that infringe on the Broadcom patents.

US district judge James Selna ruled, however, that Qualcomm can continue to sell some chips which designs infringe three patents held by rival Broadcom through January 2009.

Qualcomm also is restricted to selling only cellular chips it was offering as of 29 May 2007 when a Santa Ana, California jury found it infringed on the Broadcom patents, and only to customers it had as of that date.

A Qualcomm spokeswoman said the company's attorneys were reviewing the ruling and had no immediate comment.

In a statement, Broadcom general counsel David Dull said the company was "pleased with today's ruling".

"Broadcom should not have to compete against companies that use Broadcom's own patented technology against us, and this injunction puts a stop to Qualcomm doing just that," Dull said.

WCDMA mobile wireless technology provides higher data speeds to mobile and portable wireless devices than most North American networks.

Qualcomm also must pay mandatory royalties to Broadcom for the chips it sells during the "sunset period", ending 31 January 2009.

The judge set royalties at 6% for a patent covering video compression for mobile phones and at 4.5% for another covering simultaneous communications between different types of networks.

He ordered Broadcom and Qualcomm to negotiate a royalty for a third patent covering walkie-talkie-style technology, or be prepared to brief the court on an appropriate royalty at a 29 February 2008 hearing.

Sprint Nextel plans to put that feature, which it called QChat, in phones in the first quarter of 2008 using Qualcomm chips.

Selna ruled that after the "sunset" date, Qualcomm is permanently barred from infringing the three Broadcom patents.

Broadcom had asked the judge to impose 18-month mandatory licence fees for two of the infringed patents for a limited set of Qualcomm products and to bar Qualcomm from selling chips used for the QChat feature.

Qualcomm had offered to pay three times the amount of a "reasonable royalty" so it could continue using Broadcom's patented technology with no injunction.

Selna also ordered the companies to file a joint report before the February hearing about how they plan to handle Qualcomm's attempts to "design around" the infringing chips.

IBM filing 10 patents every day

IBM filing 10 patents every day 12:03PM, Wednesday 2nd January 2008
IBM is the most prolific patent creator in the IT industry, filing on average 10 patents per day, according to a recent IEEE Spectrum study.

The study reveals that in 2006, the last year for which complete figures are available, IBM filed 3,651 patents, an average of ten per day. Hewlett Packard followed, filing 2115, with Toshiba and Microsoft rounding out the leader board.

Alongside reporting the number of patents filed, the study also rates them by quality, taking into account the company's previous patent activity and innovation. According to this rating, Microsoft actually tops the "patent power" index, despite filing less than half the number of IBM in 2006.

Engineers at many companies are now actively encouraged to file patents for any work in new areas, in order to avoid patent lawsuits and intellectual property disputes.

The OLPC Foundation has recently been on the end of such a dispute, with its laptop for developing nations temporarily banned from sale in Nigeria pending a legal decision on a patent infringement case.

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