IBM Sued Over Patent Infringements
July 13, 2009 by Mark Ellis
Filed under Business
Canadian company MOSAID Technologies has filed a lawsuit against International Business Machines Corp., otherwise known as IBM, for six alleged patent infringements. According to MOSAID, it has tried for years to reach some sort of settlement with IBM but has been unable to agree with the technology giant in negotiations.
The lawsuit focuses on IBM’s producing and selling certain products that use technology patented by MOSAID without ever having acquired a license to their patents. The technology involves microprocessors and Application-Specific Integrated Circuits that IBM would otherwise certainly be able to use if it had pursued a license.
MOSAID President and CEO John Lindgren maintains that his company deals with almost all of the Dynamic Random Access Memory commodities in the world, which means that IBM would have had to correspond with MOSAID at some point. IBM has not yet released any comment on the matter, but MOSAID and Howrey LLP, a specialized U.S. law firm, will go forward with the lawsuit.
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