Our Mr. Rodgers will be breaking out a bottle of his finest wine this Friday night. He spent the last week plus in court and won big, big, big!!!
Aside: The press always refers to T. J. as the Chairmen and CEO of Cypress, but it ain't so. Suppose he just seems so "Chairman-like," everyone assumes it to be the case.
From www.cypress.com
"Eric A. Benhamou is chairman of the board of Cypress Semiconductor. Since April 1990 he has been chairman and chief executive officer of 3Com Corporation, a data networking company; previously, from September 1987 to April 1990, he was vice president and general manager of 3Com.
"T.J. Rodgers is a cofounder of Cypress and has been its president and chief executive officer since 1982. Dr. Rodgers serves as a director of C-Cube Corporation."
10/29 15:49 CORRECTED-FED JURY FINDS FOR CYPRESS<CY.N>(CORRECTS SPELLING)IN
CASE BROUGHT BY EMI
by Rita Farrell
WILMINGTON, Del., Oct 29 (Reuters) - A federal jury found on Friday that two microchip-related patents owned by EMI Group Plc's <EMI.L> U.S. subsidiary are invalid.
The decision was seen as a victory for Cypress Semiconductor Corp. <CY.N> which had been charged with infringement by EMI Group, North America Inc.
The patent for a metallic fuse with optically absorptive layers are used for disconnecting dysfunctional circuitry in semiconductor chips to allow redundant or backup circuitry to take over.
The ten-member jury also found that Cyprus' RAM 3, RAM 4 and RAM 5 processes used in its own products would not have infringed the patents even if they had been found to have been valid.
Cyprus Chairman Dr. T.J. Rodgers told Reuters earlier this week that the patents were invalid and that he would not have to pay the $4.8 million in back royalties sought by EMI.
According to the jury verdict, the patents were determined to be invalid because they were thought to be obvious to anyone skilled in the art and anticipated by previous patents or publications.
They also found that some claims in one of the patents were "an inherent property, law of nature natural phenomenon, or a new use for an old structure."
The trial took under two weeks and was presided over by Judge Roderick McKelvie, of the U.S. District Court of Delaware. The attorneys were not immediately available for comment.
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