Достигнуто урегулирование в судебном процессе между Winbond и SST
Компания SST (Silicon Storage Technology, Inc.) заявила, что в судебном процессе между ней и компанией Winbond Electronics of Taiwan, достигнуто урегулирование.Иск был подан в окружной суд города Сан Хосе (San Jose) летом 1998 года, в связи с расторжением лицензионного соглашения на использование технологии SuperFlash компанией Winbond. Согласно принятому соглашению, компании заключили новый лицензионный договор, вступивший в силу с 1 октября. Компания Winbond получила право использовать технологии SST в своих разработках - энергонезависимой памяти, микроконтроллерах, устройствах распознавания речи, речевых синтезаторах и персональных коммуникационных устройствах, с некоторыми техническими и производственными ограничениями.
Оплата судебных издержек будет произведена за счет компании Winbond. Источник - http://electic.com/webnews.shtml#970450856 SST Reaches Settlement of Lawsuit With Winbond [By: Rajeev Kadam on 10/01/00 at 5:40 pm PST - Talk Back] SST (Silicon Storage Technology, Inc.) announced today that it has reached a settlement in its lawsuit with Winbond Electronics of Taiwan. The original suit was filed in the U.S. District Court in San Jose, Calif. in July 1998 pursuant to the termination of its SuperFlash technology licensing agreement with Winbond. The settlement agreement also contains binding terms relating to a new license agreement to be entered into between the parties, which upon execution will be deemed effective as of October 1, 2000. As part of the settlement, Winbond has agreed to a consent judgment and does not contest the validity and appropriateness of SST"s termination of the licensing agreement in June 1998. Winbond will also pay past due and ongoing royalties. Under the new license, Winbond is permitted to pursue the fast growing embedded flash market but is constrained by certain technology limitations and volume reduction for the memory products. In particular, SST"s license to Winbond does not include SST-owned intellectual property after 1997. Winbond also will not be permitted to engage third parties for wafer foundry based on SST"s technology, and will be allowed to continue foundry sales for a pre-existing customer only through March 2001. SST expects that the future royalties from this new licensing agreement will contribute significantly to SST"s licensing income, due to Winbond"s revenue size in nonvolatile memory and other embedded applications such as speech synthesizers, speech recognition devices, microcontrollers and personal communication devices.