CARLSBAD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Patriot Scientific (OTCBB:PTSC - News) today announced that Research in Motion Limited (RIM) and The TPL Group, the company’s partner who manages the marketing, licensing and defense of patents in the Moore Microprocessor Patent™ (MMP) Portfolio, have agreed to the terms of a patent license. Terms of the deal are not publicly available.

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Patriot’s President and CEO, Rick Goerner, said: “We are pleased to have another customer’s validation of our ongoing licensing activities for the MMP™ Portfolio through TPL. Since the beginning of 2008, we have announced ten new licensees for the MMP™Portfolio.”

The wide scope of licensed applications using the MMP™ Portfolio design techniques continues to encourage global manufacturers of end user products to become MMP™ Portfolio licensees. More than 40 companies from the US, Europe, Japan, Korea and Taiwan have licensed the MMP™Portfolio technologies, including many industry leaders such as Fujitsu, Hewlett Packard, Kenwood, Mattel, Nokia, Philips, Sony and Toshiba.

The MMP™ Portfolio patents utilize techniques that enable higher performance and lower cost designs and are fundamental to consumer and commercial digital systems. Today, there are dozens of microprocessor-based key features and benefits that are included in systems such as: DVD players, cell phones and portable music players to communications infrastructure, medical equipment, and automobiles.