e.Digital's Flash-R patent portfolio covers certain aspects of the use of flash memory, addressing today's large and growing portable electronics products market. The Company unveiled the first portable recorder with removable flash memory in 1993 and believes its patent portfolio to be essential to many consumer electronics products that utilize flash memory including cell phones, digital cameras, camcorders, PDA's and other popular devices. In September 2007 and March 2008, the Company filed its first Flash-R portfolio patent infringement litigation against eight defendants.
"We are very pleased to have entered into what we believe will be the first of many Flash-R patent portfolio licensing agreements," said Robert Putnam, senior vice president of e.Digital Corporation.