ESS Technology makes announcement.FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 17, 1995--ESS Technology Inc. announced Friday that it has successfully defended against a temporary restraining order temporary restraining order: see injunction. sought by Yamaha Corporation “Yamaha” redirects here. For other uses, see Yamaha (disambiguation). The Yamaha Corporation (ヤマハ株式会社 in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . Yamaha Corporation filed a lawsuit against ESS yesterday alleging the ES1488 chip infringes on Yamaha's U.S. Patent No. 4,249,447 which relates to feedback FM technology for sound synthesis and No. 4,813,326 which relates to synthesizing musical tones with high harmonic content. "We will take this opportunity to prove once and for all that our products do not infringe on Yamaha's intellectual property rights," said Mr. Fred Chan, President of ESS Technology Inc. "Our chips do not use the techniques in the Yamaha patents. We developed our own technology and have filed for two patents. We are differentiating our technology as ESFM ESFM Escuela Superior de Fisica y Matematicas (Spanish) ESFM European Society of Feline Medicine synthesis and you can hear the superior sound quality over Yamaha's FM chips," continued Chan. "ESS has 14 patents in audio technology from over 20 years of R&D and we have an impressive list of licensees. Even Yamaha expressed an interest in licensing ESS' technology and AudioDrive chip," said Chan. "We protect our intellectual property rights and we also respect the intellectual property rights of others. We do extensive research and exercise extreme due diligence Research; analysis; your homework. This term has caught on in all industries, because it sounds so "wired." Who would want to do analysis or research when they can do due diligence. See wired. to make sure our products do not infringe on others. We are confident that we can defend against the claims asserted by Yamaha," continued Chan. ESS designs, develops and markets mixed-signal VLSI VLSI: see integrated circuit. (1) (Very Large Scale Integration) Between 100,000 and one million transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, LSI and ULSI. (2) (VLSI Technology, Inc., Tempe, AZ, www.semiconductors. integrated circuits Integrated circuits Miniature electronic circuits produced within and upon a single semiconductor crystal, usually silicon. Integrated circuits range in complexity from simple logic circuits and amplifiers, about 1/20 in. (1. for audio applications that range from computers, multimedia and electronic instruments to educational products, consumer products and toys. The company was founded in 1984 and holds 14 worldwide patents in audio technologies. Since 1989, ESS has shipped over 70 million audio chips. For further information, please contact Mr. Albert Mak, ESS Technology Inc. at 46107 Landing Parkway, Fremont, Calif., Tel 510/226-1088; Fax 510/226-8868. CONTACT: ESS Technology Inc. Albert Mak, 510/226-1088 |
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