Press Release
Intellectual Ventures Takes Action to Enforce its Invention Rights
December 8, 2010 BELLEVUE, Wash.
December 8, 2010 BELLEVUE, Wash.
Today Intellectual Ventures (“IV”) enforced its rights and filed patent infringement complaints in the U.S. District Court of Delaware against companies in the software security; dynamic random access memory (DRAM) and Flash memory; and field-programmable gate array (FPGA) industries.
“Over the years, Intellectual Ventures has successfully negotiated license agreements with some of the top technology companies in the world. However, some companies have chosen to ignore our requests for good faith negotiations and discussions,” stated Melissa A. Finocchio, Chief Litigation Counsel, Intellectual Ventures. “Protecting our invention rights through these actions is the right choice for our investors, inventors and current licensees.”
The complaints were filed against the following companies:
In the software security industry:
Lead attorney for this action: Parker Folse of Susman Godfrey, LLP in Seattle
View the full complaint here. (.pdf, 4 MB)
In the DRAM and Flash memory industry:
Lead attorney for this action: Jared Bobrow of Weil, Gotshal, & Manges, LLP in Redwood Shores, Calif.
View the full complaint here. (.pdf, 22MB)
In the FPGA industry:
Lead attorney for this action: John Desmarais of Desmarais, LLP in New York
View the full complaint here. (.pdf, 13MB)
Joe Farnan of Farnan Law, LLP is Intellectual Ventures’ Delaware counsel in all three actions.