Pacer Doc # 197  Docket Text: AMENDED ANSWER to Technology Properties Limited and Patriot Scientific Corporation's Second Amended Complaint by Toshiba Corporation.,, Toshiba America, Inc.,, Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc,,  Toshiba America Consumer Products, LLC

Pacer Doc #198  Docket Text: AMENDED ANSWER to Technology Properties Limited and Patriot Scientific Corporation's Second Amended Complaint, Amended COUNTERCLAIM against Technology Properties Limitied, Inc.,, Patriot Scientific Corporation by Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc

-What I find interesting is that, as far as I can tell from prev Pacer filings.. this is the first time that Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc has filed a separate Pacer filing.  What else I find interesting is that TAEC is Toshibas semiconductor specialist...

TEAC.. overview from Hoovers:

Toshiba America Electronic Components (TAEC) makes and markets semiconductors, memory devices, LCDs, wireless components, electron tubes, optoelectronics, and radio-frequency (RF) components. The company also develops direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) products. A subsidiary of Toshiba America, it sells to the automotive, digital consumer products, networking, and wireless industries.

TEAC website:  http://www.toshiba.com/taec/

-Now why would they file a separate Pacer filing now?  The same attorney, Scott Partridge, filed both of these docs, on the same day...  Why would the chip entity file separately?  Of course you all know what I speculate as the reason...  Perhaps the 4 entities filing Doc #197 are going to settle and TEAC, like NEC E A, will not or will not be allowed to, or just yet...  obviously jmo

-Here are the other entities overviews & websites

Toshiba Corp..  overview from Hoovers:

Toshiba products play an active role, be it in computing, controlling, powering, or communicating -- transporting, cooking, playing, or even elevating. The company's portfolio includes personal and professional computers (notebook PCs, servers), telecommunications and medical equipment (mobile phones, X-ray machines), industrial machinery (power plant reactors, elevators), consumer appliances (microwaves, DVD players), electronic components (electron tubes, batteries), and semiconductors. Its portfolio also includes air traffic control and railway transportation systems.

Website:  http://www.toshiba.co.jp/index.htm

Toshiba America, Inc..  overview from Hoovers:

Toshiba America, Inc. (TAI) is the spitting image of its old man. The holding company, a subsidiary of high-tech titan Toshiba, handles North American business for its formidable parent. TAI's operating companies market laptops, servers, and PCs; MRIs and other medical imaging systems; semiconductors, electron tubes, and liquid crystal displays; copiers and other office equipment; and a range of consumer electronics products (TVs, cameras, cordless phones, DVD players). The company also provides grants for science and mathematics education through its not-for-profit organization, the Toshiba America Foundation.

website:  http://www.toshiba.com/tai/

Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc.. overview from Hoovers:

Toshiba America Information Systems (TAIS) provides sales, marketing, and services in the US and Latin America for the information products made by its three divisions. Those units -- Digital Products, Digital Solution, and Storage Devices -- design and manufacture products and services for the Internet and mobile communications industries, as well as offering storage and imaging products and services. The company's products include digital imaging systems, DVD/CD recording devices, hard disk drive, portable computers, projectors, servers, and telephony equipment. TAIS is a unit of Toshiba America, which is a subsidiary of Toshiba Corporation.

website:  http://www.toshiba.com/taistsd/

Toshiba America Consumer Products, LLC.. overview from Goliath:

Toshiba America Consumer Products manufactures a variety of electronics products for home use, including TVs and DVD Video players.

website:  http://www.tacp.toshiba.com/

-I'm probably off base here.. but I do find it quite currious