The last time Spansion and Samsung tried to settle their patent litigation over flash memory chips, a bankruptcy judge rejected the deal. Two years and several lawsuits later, the two companies are ready to try again: On June 20 they announced that they’d agreed to cross-license one another’s patents and that Samsung would pay $150 million to end the fight.
As we’ve reported, Spansion sued Samsung in 2008, alleging that Samsung flash memory chips in a host of devices — notably iPhones, BlackBerries, and Samsung and Sony televisions — infringed its patents. In the litigation that ensued Spansion and Samsung filed at least 10 complaints against each other at the U.S. International Trade Commission and in courts in the United States, Japan, and Germany. They’ve kept a small army of IP litigators busy along the way, including from McDermott Will & Emery and King & Spalding (for Spansion) and Fish & Richardson and Kirkland & Ellis (for Samsung).
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