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To: slacker711 who wrote (27800)	3/30/2005 11:50:32 AM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (2) of 60323

Legal ruling shock hits NAND firms electronicsweekly.com A legal ruling with implications for the entire NAND flash industry has been given in the US. The Santa Clara County Superior Court declared that certain architectural features used in NAND are covered by patents owned by NAND flash module manufacturer Lexar Media. Lexar has been awarded an initial $380m against Toshiba for breach of these patents and the court rules that further, punitive, damages would be assessed and levied. As EW went to press Toshiba had not said if it would appeal against the ruling but it has denied any wrong doing. The ruling relates to four key features of NAND flash chips - Parallel Write, Internal Page Copy, Pipelining and Superblocks. On April 13 Lexar intends to ask for an injunction to bar the sale in the US of Toshiba's NAND flash chips, its flash-based cards - CompactFlash, SD and XD. "This verdict holds Toshiba accountable for its conduct - building Lexar's trust to acquire our technology and then betraying that trust to partner with our competitor and compete against us," said Eric Whitaker, executive v-p and general counsel. Toshiba's flash partner is SanDisk whose CEO, Eli Harari, gave evidence at the trial.

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