posted on
Nov 07, 2006 02:16PM
You lost me on your post. Not sure why you believe TPL has to now file a separate law suit? The only thing Denied Without Prejudice was the amended filing by TPL asking that Preliminary Infringement Contentions encompass entire chip families. It was denied because the court feels that if TPL can prove infringement against an entire chip family, than TPL should also be able to prove infringement for each product within a chip family. So, for example, instead of claiming in court that the ARM7 Family infringes on our IP because of X, Y, Z, we have to prove X,Y,Z for each product in the ARM7 family which is made up of the ARM720T, ARM7EJ-S, ARM7TDMI, and ARM7TDMI-S. IMO, makes the process longer, but maybe more fair.