On December 19, 2011, ALJ Gildea issued the public version of
Order No. 8 (dated October 18, 2011) in
Certain Dynamic Random Access Memory and NAND Flash Memory Devices and Products Containing Same (Inv. No. 337-TA-803). In the Order, ALJ Gildea set a hearing on November 15, 2011 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. to address the effects on the public interest of Complainants’ October 14, 2011 motion to terminate two Respondents, Pentech Co., Ltd. and Pantech Wireless, Inc. from the investigation on the basis of settlement.
By way of background, this investigation is based on a July 12, 2011 complaint filed on behalf of Intellectual Ventures Management, LLC, Invention Investment Fund I, L.P., Invention Investment Fund II, LLC, Intellectual Ventures I LLC, and Intellectual Ventures II LLC, against several manufacturers, distributors, and retailers of DRAM and NAND Flash memory devices by Hynix Semiconductor Inc. and Hynix Semiconductor America, Inc. and Elpida Memory, Inc. and Elpida Memory (USA) Inc., for alleged infringement of U.S. Patent Nos. 5,654,932; 5,963,481; 5,982,696; 5,500,819; and 5,687,132.
See our
July 13, 2011 post for more details.
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