Nanya opens the champers
Nanya Technology said that the US International Trade
Commission (ITC) has given it a clean bill of health and that is DRAM
activities were all above board.
Tessera Technologies moaned to the FTC that chipmakers
Elpida Memory, Nanya, Powerchip Semiconductor and ProMOS Technologies had
violated its patents. The move follows a ruling by an administrative law judge
found Tessera's patents US Patent No. 5663106, 6133627 and 5679977 weren't
infringed in an action the company brought against memory-chip manufacturers.
The ITC said that three Tessera patents were valid, but
Tessera's expert in the case "was insufficient to prove infringement by
the respondents of two of the asserted patents."
There was some proof that the manufacturers had infringed
the third patent in some of the products, but it seems that patent was
exhausted so there was no violation of Section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930.