In one settlement, TPL, Patriot, Toshiba, Matsushita and JVC said that they have entered into a business resolution of their legal disputes in two patent infringement suits pending in the U.S. District Courts in the Eastern District of Texas and the Northern District of California.

The terms of their settlement include the grant by the TPL Group of rights under the Moore Microprocessor Patent Portfolio to Toshiba, Matsushita and JVC and their respective subsidiaries. The parties have agreed that the details of the settlement are confidential.

In a separate event, TPL and Patriot said that they have entered into a business resolution of their legal disputes with NEC Electronics America in two patent infringement lawsuits pending in the U.S. District Courts in the Eastern District of Texas and the Northern District of California.

The terms of their settlement include the grant by the TPL Group of rights under the Moore Microprocessor Patent Portfolio to NEC Electronics and its subsidiaries.

The MMP portfolio is owned jointly by Patriot and the TPL Group. The MMP portfolio is named after inventor Charles H. Moore, chief technology officer of TPL Group, who is known for inventing the forth software programming language and for his work in the 1980s on stack-based microprocessors.

In 2003, Patriot quietly launched a "patent compliance" campaign, seeking IP licenses from hundreds of systems companies in the commercial, industrial, and military sectors that use microprocessors with internal capabilities greater than 120MHz, a market it sized in excess of $200 billion.

AMD, Intel and others have signed licensing deals with the IP firms. In 2005, processor developer and IP company Patriot was named a defendant in five declaratory judgment lawsuits filed in the Federal District Court in Oakland, Calif., by a group of 20 Japanese electronics manufacturers.

By: DocMemory
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