On June 19, 2009, Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute ("ITRI") filed two patent infringement lawsuits against Samsung Electronics America Inc. and two other Samsung entities in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas (Case Nos. 4:09-cv-04063, 4:09-cv-04064).
ITRI claims that Samsung's i607 and D520 models infringed U.S. Patent Number 6,459,413, entitled “Multi-frequency band antenna," and its SPH-A940, SPH-M220, SPH-M320 and SGH-D307 models infringe U.S. Patent Number 5,208,472, entitled “Double spacer salicide MOS device and method.”
ITRI is a research institute backed by the Taiwanese government, and many Taiwanese high tech companies trace their origins to ITRI. These two cases appear to be the first patent infringement cases brought by a Chinese or Taiwanese patent holding company in the US. We will continue to monitor these cases, as a favorable outcome may be followed by more cases brought by patent holding companies from the greater China region.
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