Atmel Announces Exclusion Order to be Enforced Against SST, Sanyo and Winbond.Business Editors and Legal/High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 16, 2000 Atmel Corporation (Nasdaq:ATML ATML Automatic Test Markup Language ATML Automated Test Markup Language ) announced today that the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is a United States court of appeals. The Federal Circuit was created by Congress with passage of the Federal Courts Improvement Act of 1982. The court is headquartered in Washington, D.C., and occupies the Howard T. has lifted the temporary stay issued on October 23 with regard to the International Trade Commission's (ITC ITC (Brit) n abbr (= Independent Television Commission) → Fernseh-Aufsichtsgremium ITC n abbr (BRIT) (= Independent Television Commission) → ) order of October 16, 2000 (the "Order"). The Order, which was effective October 20, 2000 found, among other things, that Atmel's U.S. Patent No. 4,451,903 is valid, enforceable and infringed by Silicon Storage Technologies, Inc. ("SST SST: see airplane. "), Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. ("Sanyo"), and Winbond Electronics Corporation of Taiwan and Winbond Electronics North America Corporation of California (collectively "Winbond"), and that they violated Section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930. In addition, the Order prohibited unlicensed entry of infringing EPROM's EEPROM's, FLASH Memories, and FLASH Microcontroller semiconductor devices, and circuit boards containing such devices. About Atmel Founded in 1984, Atmel Corporation is headquartered in San Jose, Calif. with principal manufacturing facilities in North America and Europe. Atmel designs, manufactures and markets worldwide, advanced logic, mixed-signal, nonvolatile memory and RF semiconductors. Atmel is also a leading provider of system-level integration semiconductor solutions using CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) Pronounced "c-moss." The most widely used integrated circuit design. It is found in almost every electronic product from handheld devices to mainframes. , BiCMOS, bipolar SiGe, and high-voltage BCDMOS process technologies. Note to Editors: Atmel, the Atmel logo and combinations thereof and others contained herein, are trademarks of Atmel Corporation. |
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