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To: L. Adam Latham who wrote (146018)	10/25/2001 3:11:02 PM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 186894

Intel wins a minor legal victory. dailynews.yahoo.com Thursday October 25 2:56 PM ET Trade Commission Bars Some Broadcom Products WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. International Trade Commission has barred the U.S. sale of certain communications chip products designed by a Broadcom (Nasdaq:BRCM - news) Corp. subsidiary that infringe two Intel Corp. chip-packaging patents. The chips and products that infringe the Intel (Nasdaq:INTC - news) patents, while designed by Irvine, California-based Broadcom subsidiary Altima Communications Inc., are made overseas. Products covered by certain sections of U.S. Letters Patent 5,742,603 and U.S. Letters Patent 5,894,410 made abroad on behalf of Altima or its related entities ``are excluded from entry for consumption into the United States'' for the duration of the patents, which end in 2015 and 2016,'' the order stated. Broadcom bought Altima in September 2001, and Santa Clara, California-based Intel filed the patent infringement lawsuit against Altima, alleging infringement of four patents, in August 2000. Ultimately, Administrative Law Judge Paul Luckern ruled in July that Altima infringed on the two patents referred to in the Oct. 23 order that now bars importation of products using technology covered by those two patents. Steve Anzalone, head lawyer for Broadcom on the case reiterated on Thursday what he had said in July: That the impact would be on older products in a diminishing market. ``Broadcom was not a party to this and its products were not a party to the investigation,'' Anzalone added, noting that the order would have no material impact on Broadcom or its results. Broadcom spokesman Bill Blanning also said that the order would not hurt Broadcom's financial results. Email this story