Canadian company sues Hynix.Byline: Ilene Aleshire The Register-Guard A Canadian firm announced Wednesday that it is suing Hynix Semiconductor and two of its U.S. subsidiaries over alleged patent infringement patent infringement n. the manufacture and/or use of an invention or improvement for which someone else owns a patent issued by the government, without obtaining permission of the owner of the patent by contract, license or waiver. . Hynix, which employs about 1,000 people at its computer chip plant in west Eugene, had no immediate comment. Ottawa-based Mosaid said the six patents were granted on fundamental dynamic random access memory Dynamic random access memory (DRAM) is a type of random access memory that stores each bit of data in a separate capacitor within an integrated circuit. Since real capacitors leak charge, the information eventually fades unless the capacitor charge is refreshed periodically. - or DRAM - circuit inventions. The lawsuit lawsuit: see procedure; tort. was filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas is the Federal district court with jurisdiction over the eastern part of Texas and is a part of the Fifth Circuit. The court's headquarters are in Tyler, Texas and has five subdivision offices. . On Tuesday Mosaid announced that it has settled a similar lawsuit against Samsung that alleged patent infringement and that Samsung had agreed to license the Mosaid patents. The price Samsung will pay was not disclosed. Mosaid's chief executive, George Cwynar, told Bloomberg News Service on Wednesday that the settlement with Samsung put Mosaid in a good position to file patent claims against other companies, such as Hynix. A Mosaid spokeswoman told Bloomberg that Mosaid recently told 15 companies, including Hynix, that they are infringing on its patents. Hynix is based in South Korea. Its factory in west Eugene makes 512-megabit and 265-megabit DRAM, used primarily in computers. It is Hynix's only factory outside of Asia and is a key supplier to European and U.S. customers due to tariff tariff, tax on imported and, more rarely, exported goods. It is also called a customs duty. Tariffs may be distinguished from other taxes in that their predominant purpose is not financial but economic—not to increase a nation's revenue but to protect domestic restrictions on Korean-produced memory, company spokesman Jerry Olson has said. |
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