Toshiba sues Hynix, alleges patent violation
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November 10, 2004 ã¡ In the latest in a series of attempts by Japanese companies to defend their technological territory, electronics giant Toshiba sued Hynix Semiconductor yesterday for alleged violations of flash memory chip patents, which are key
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Japanese electronics giant Toshiba said it is taking legal action against major South Korean microchip maker Hynix in Tokyo and Texas for alleged infringement of Toshiba's semiconductor memory patents.
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TOKYO Toshiba, Japan&#39;s second-largest chip maker, said Tuesday that it had filed lawsuits in the United States and Japan against Hynix Semiconductor for patent violations on memory chips used in computers and other consumer electronics.
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Japanese electronics firm Toshiba Corp.  said it had been subpoenaed by the U.S. Department of Justice  about its flash memory business in the key U.S. market.
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(InfoWorld) - Sun MicrosystemsÂ hasÂ become involved in another intellectual property lawsuit, this time with a company that says Sun and its StorageTek unit have committed copyright infringement and fraud. Internet development tools maker Netbula,Â of San Leandro, California, has filed suit against Sun and Storage Technology Corp. (StorageTek) in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in Oakland for unlawful use of Netbula's core technology in their LibAttach software, according to Netbula. Netbula also claims that Sun and StorageTek breached a contract Netbula has with the companies and misrepresented their use of Netbula's technology, part of its main product line PowerRPC, in their infringement of copyrights. PowerRPC is a cross-platform client/server development kit for various versions of Windows, as well as for Unix and Java. Sun announcedÂ it would purchase StorageTek in June 2005, but Netbula is suing the two as separate companies because the copyright infringement began when they were still individual entities, said Vonnah Brillet, the attorney handling the case for Netbula. Brillet said Netbula's president Don Yue developed software and sold a license for it to StorageTek when it was a stand-alone company. At one point when he asked about whether StorageTek was still using the technology, he was told the company was not, she said. However, some time after that, someone from StorageTek asked Yue for updates to the technology, which proved that the company was still using it, but not paying for the license, Brillet said. Netbula tried to resolve the issue with Sun before filing the suit to no avail, the company said. It is seeking an injunction to stop Sun and StorageTek from using its technology. The lawsuit also seeks financial restitution. Sun is currently embroiled in another intellectual property suit over patents. Earlier this year, startup company Azul Systems Inc. sued the Santa Clara, California, vendor in a defensive move afterÂ Sun threatened the company with litigation for patent infringement and misappropriation of trade secrets. Azul called Sun's charges unfounded and sued for declaratory relief against the accusations and the threat of litigation. Azul said Sun would file a lawsuit unless Azul granted Sun partial ownership of the company. Sun eventually countersued Azul in May for patent infringement. The cases are still pending in California.
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Toshiba has accused Hynix of infringing its DRAM and Flash patents, and has begun legal proceedings against its South Korean rival in the US and Japanese courts.
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Sun Microsystems faces another intellectual property lawsuit as Netbula files suit for copyright infringement and fraud related to the use of certain core technology. The problem apparently stems from arrangements made before Sun's 2005 purchase of StorageTek.
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As Sandisk throws lawsuits round like confetti Sun has issued a counter-lawsuit against Network Appliance (NetApp) which last month sued the Java overlords alleging it had violated seven of its patents.â¦
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TOKYO (CBS.MW) -- Japan&#39;s Toshiba Corp. said Tuesday it has field suit against South Korea&#39;s Hynix Semiconductor Inc. in Japan and the United States, alleging infringement of Toshiba&#39;s semiconductor flash memory patents.
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Toshiba has agreed to pay $288 million to settle lawsuits between it and memory chipmaker Lexar Media, which was acquired by Micron Technology in June. Since 2002, Lexar has been engaged in a court battle with Toshiba regarding patent infringement of flash memory technology.
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TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 8, 2004--Toshiba Corporation a annoncÃ© ce jour qu&#39;elle intentait un procÃ¨s Ã  Hynix Semiconductor au Japon et aux Etats-Unis pour contrefaÃ§on des brevets relatifs aux mÃ©moires Ã  semiconducteurs.
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(InfoWorld) - Sun Microsystems and Unisys have jointly filed a lawsuit against several major computer memory chip makers seeking compensation for alleged price fixing. The two computer makers individually filed lawsuits against the companies earlier this year but have now brought the cases together in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, according to a Friday court filing. The complaint names South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor, Infineon Technologies of Germany, Japan's Elpida Memory and Mitsubishi Electric, Taiwan's Mosel Vitelic and Nanya Technology, and U.S. and European units of some of the companies. The lawsuit is one of several filed against DRAM makers after the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) began an investigation into price fixing in 2002. That has already seen a number of guilty pleas by companies and executives and fines have been levied against some DRAM makers. Last year Samsung ElectronicsÂ wasÂ ordered to pay a $300 million criminal fineÂ and HynixÂ agreed to pay $185 million. InfineonÂ paid $160 million,Â and Japan's Elpida agreed toÂ pay a $84 million fine.
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SEOUL: Hynix Semiconductor may be fined for shoddy accounting between 1999-2003, South Korea&#39;s financial regulator said. News of Hynix&#39;s accounting violations comes after the CEO of Kookmin Bank, South Korea&#39;s
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Toshiba is taking action to protect its patents. The Japan-based company has accused Hynix Semiconductor of violating seven patents in the United States, including ones for DRAM, and three flash-memory patents in Japan.
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Hynix Semiconductor, formerly Hyundai Electronics, was engaged in accounting fraud totaling 2 trillion won in 1999, financial regulators reported Monday.
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Japan's Toshiba Corp. filed patent infringement lawsuits in Japanese and U.S. courts on Monday against South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor Inc., it said Tuesday.
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By Susan Decker  Lenovo Group Ltd, the world's third-largest personal computer maker, sued rival Clevo Computer Co, claiming the Taiwanese company infringed two patents for PC functions and owed millions of dollars in licensing royalties.