CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The TPL Group announced today that it has initiated litigation in the US District Court for the District of Delaware against 18 of the companies it believes are infringing its Fast Logic Patent Portfolio. According to The TPL Group, the companies named in the latest Delaware action are among the many companies that have infringed TPL’s Fast Logic Portfolio, and TPL intends to supplement its Fast Logic Portfolio Licensing Program with such enforcement efforts both during the current litigation and afterwards.
After launching the Fast Logic Licensing Program in 2007, and attracting more than 20 global electronics companies as licensees, The TPL Group has moved aggressively to protect the investments of its Fast Logic licensee community. The Fast Logic Portfolio contains fundamental building blocks for contemporary electronic products ranging from mobile phones, personal computers and servers to automotive systems, scientific instruments and medical equipment. The proven Fast Logic design techniques have enabled the electronics industry to achieve significant performance advantages across several kinds of integrated circuits, such as: microprocessors, microcontrollers, programmable logic, DSPs, ASICs, SoCs, SDRAM (DDR, DDR2, and DDR3), NOR flash, SRAM, and CMOS image sensors.
Commenting on TPL’s decision to move aggressively to protect both is Fast Logic licensees, and its Fast Logic Licensing Program, TPL Founder and Chairman Dan Leckrone said: "TPL, via its peerless Alliacense licensing operation, has developed a well-deserved reputation as a reliable channel for the licensing of fundamental technologies. We greatly value our licensee customers, and fully intend to continue to protect their investments – as well as our own."
The District Court Complaint names a total of 18 companies, including, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Cirrus Logic, Inc., Elpida Memory, Inc., Freescale Semiconductor, Inc., Fujitsu Limited, Hynix Semiconductor, Inc., Marvell Technology Group Ltd., Micron Technology, Inc., Nvidia Corporation, On Semiconductor Corporation, ProMos Technologies Inc., Sony Corporation, STMicroelectronics, Inc., Toshiba Corporation, Xilinx, Inc., and Zoran Corporation, as well as various affiliates of these companies.
About the Fast Logic Portfolio
The Fast Logic Portfolio includes U.S. Patent No. 5,030,853, titled “High Speed Logic and Memory Family Using Ring Segment Buffer,” U.S. Patent No. 5,391,949, titled “Differential Latching Inverter Circuit,” U.S. Patent No. 5,247,212, titled “Complementary Logic Input Parallel (CLIP) Logic Circuit Family,” U.S. Patent No. 5,001,367, titled “High Speed Complementary Field Effect Transistor Logic Circuits,” and U.S. Patent No. 5,363,001, titled “Data Input Register For Random Access Memory.” These innovations of visionary scientist Albert Vinal founder of Thunderbird Technologies have become common building blocks in today’s electronics products. Thunderbird Technologies develops fundamental design techniques for high-speed memories and high-performance transistor design. Thunderbird’s high-speed memory designs include improvements to circuit and associated transistor design. In 2007, The TPL Group partnered with Thunderbird Technologies to advance these protected, fundamental innovations as the Fast Logic Portfolio.
About The TPL Group
Founded in 1988, The TPL Group has evolved as a coalition of technology-based enterprises dedicated to the development, management and commercialization of proprietary technology, and the design, manufacture and sales of proprietary products based on those IP assets. Among the advanced products that TPL brings to market are multi-core microprocessors, memory management and control devices, advanced hearing and listening solutions, energy-efficient computing architectures, encryption storage products, sub-wavelength acoustic transducers, wafer-level packaging, and solderless pcb-assembly technology. For more information, visit www.tplgroup.net.