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U.S. International Trade Commission Affirms Infringement Ruling Against SiRF
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Broadcom Corporation a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, announced today that the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has affirmed an Initial Determination that SiRF Technology Holdings, Inc. infringes three GPS-related patents held by Global Locate, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Broadcom.
The ITC also said that it would review the findings regarding three additional patents that SiRF was found to infringe.
"We are pleased that the ITC affirmed the Initial Determination that SiRF infringed three of our patents, and also confirmed the validity of all six patents. We are confident that the full Commission will ultimately affirm the findings of SiRF's infringement on the three remaining patents at issue. We also look forward to moving expeditiously to the remedy phase against SiRF," said David Rosmann, Broadcom's Vice President, Intellectual Property Litigation.
The ITC's notice of review, filed today, comes after a two week trial earlier this year and a subsequent determination by ITC Administrative Law Judge Carl C. Charneski that SiRF infringes six GPS-related patents held by Global Locate. The six patents that SiRF was found to infringe are United States patents 6,417,801; 6,937,187; 6,606,346; 7,158,080; 6,704,651; and 6,651,000 -- relating to extended ephemeris assistance (Long Term Orbits), calculating time in GPS receivers, enhancing sensitivity in assisted GPS systems, and implementing hardware structures for parallel correlation. The findings subject to review involve the '346, '651 and '000 patents.
The ITC will now decide whether to implement the judge's proposed remedies against SiRF, which include a permanent exclusion order barring the importation into the United States of infringing SiRF chips and all downstream products that incorporate those chips, including personal navigation devices (PND), GPS modules and receivers, personal digital assistants (PDA), and cellular telephones. The ITC will also decide whether to follow the trial court's proposal to issue a cease and desist order barring SiRF from further use or sale of infringing products in the United States. Judge Charneski recommended these remedies in his Initial Determination.
The Commission has set a target date of December 8 to issue its Final Determination and remedy order.
In addition to this ITC investigation, Broadcom's claims of infringement against SiRF's multimedia processors and GPS receivers in the U.S. District Court in Santa Ana, Calif, will move forward after SiRF's motion to stay the case was denied last month.
About Broadcom
Broadcom Corporation is a major technology innovator and global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications. Broadcom(R) products enable the delivery of voice, video, data and multimedia to and throughout the home, the office and the mobile environment. We provide the industry's broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art, system-on-a-chip and software solutions to manufacturers of computing and networking equipment, digital entertainment and broadband access products, and mobile devices. These solutions support our core mission: Connecting everything(R).
Broadcom is one of the world's largest fabless semiconductor companies, with 2007 revenue of $3.78 billion, and holds over 2,800 U.S. and 1,200 foreign patents, more than 7,300 additional pending patent applications, and one of the broadest intellectual property portfolios addressing both wired and wireless transmission of voice, video, data and multimedia.
Broadcom is headquartered in Irvine, Calif., and has offices and research facilities in North America, Asia and Europe. Broadcom may be contacted at +1.949.926.5000 or at http://www.broadcom.com.
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