Spansion Inc., a pure-play Flash memory vendor, has filed two patent-infringement lawsuits against Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., one at the U.S. International Trade Commission, the other in a Delaware district court.

Spansion has filed a lawsuit against Samsung Electronics in federal court and lodged a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission over patents it says it holds for flash memory technology that it says Samsung violated. The complaint seeks to block the importation of devices with the offending flash memory technology, and names Apple, Research In Motion, Lenovo, Sony and Sony Ericsson a...

But not for er, Qualcomm The US Court of Appeals has ruled that the International Trade Commission can't actually ban third parties from importing kit containing Qualcomm chips, even if they breach a Broadcom patent.…

A federal appeals court Tuesday ruled that the International Trade Commission's ban on imports of cell phones with chips made by Qualcomm overstepped the commission's authority.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said today it vacated a finding by the International Trade Commission that Qualcomm Inc. had induced infringement by its customers of a Broadcom Corp. patent.

A federal appeals court vacated a ruling by the U.S. International Trade Commission that banned the importation of certain 3G cell phones that carried Qualcomm chips.  In a punctuation to the long-running and bitter saga over patent infringements and the importation of chips, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C., also vacated part of the ITC ruling that said Q...

GPS based platforms vendor, SiRF Technology Holdings has announced a deal with Qualcomm and also received a review notice from the International Trade Commission (ITC) regarding its ongoing patent dispute with Broadcom.

­GPS based platforms vendor, SiRF Technology Holdings has announced a deal with Qualcomm and also received a review notice from the International Trade Commission (ITC) regarding its ongoing patent dispute with Broadcom.

Broadcom Corporation announced today that the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has affirmed an Initial Determination that SiRF Technology Holdings, Inc. infringes three GPS-related patents held by Global Locate, Inc.

As the saying goes, you win some and you lose some. That sentiment may characterize Sirf Technology today.  On the bad news front, Broadcom says the International Trade Commission yesterday affirmed that Sirf Technology infringes on three GPS-related patents held by Global Locate, a Broadcom subsidiary. The ITC will now decide whether to impose remedies or ban the importation into the U....