东西不卖到美国不代表不会被告-Mosaid控告力晶侵权.doc

東西不賣到美國不代表不會被告-Mosaid控告力晶侵權新聞：（2006年07月28日 - Mosaid指控侵權 力晶：未在專利註冊地銷售）加拿大半導體設計公司Mosaid指控美光、台灣的力晶（5346）和茂德（5387）侵犯電腦記憶晶片專利。力晶副總兼發言人譚仲民表示：MOSAID的專利是在美國註冊登記，但力晶的產品並沒有直接賣到美國和加拿大，更沒收到訴狀，如果MOSAID確實要提起訴訟，力晶會有適當反駁與回應，不致造成重大影響1。評析：這是個有趣的新聞，我們來追蹤一下。7月27日力晶於公開資訊觀測站澄清說明如下，發言人為譚仲民副總2關於MOSAID Technologies宣稱已於美國德州對力晶提出侵權告訴，本公司尚未接獲相關訴狀，對於該公司所稱專利內容尚待進一步了解。但根據新聞，MOSAID之專利係於美國地區登記，而力晶公司並未直接在美國市場銷售DRAM產品，該專利訴訟對本公司影響應屬十分有限。力晶將會針對相關法律資料展開研究，並將視需要採取回應措施。根據Mosaid與Infineon在今年6月14日所達成的專利訴訟和解協議來看3，力晶要躲過這個專利訴訟案的可能不高，因為如果連Infineon與Samsung此二DRAM巨人都已經接受Mosaid的授權了，力晶又有何能耐免除。換言之，下一步需要討論的問題僅在於要付多少錢罷了。專利為屬地主義，且該專利訴訟是在美國進行沒錯，但是不要忘了Mosaid的專利是全球佈局的。如表一就是Mosaid在中國所申請之專利。此外，如果加上今年六月購買自Infineon與Qimonda的50個專利，則Mosaid的基本專利數量也超過250個以上，考量同一基礎專利的全球專利家族，全部專利數量應該超過600個以上，其他Mosaid專利基本資訊如表二所示。力晶產品沒有直接賣到美國不代表不會侵權，因為專利所排除他人的範圍包括製造、販賣、使用與進口等。換言之，如果委由力晶代工的公司被告，力晶最終仍脫離不了關係。最後，充實自身專利組合是短時間重要工作（到7月28日止，力晶在美國核准專利已超過130個），而談到一個可接受價錢，更需要一個好的談判策略。表一 Mosaid中國大陸專利列表（未去除重複部分）NumberTitlePub.FiledIPCCN1154111C Asynchronous pipeline semiconductor 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H04L 12/56CN1444812T Method and apparatus for reducing pool starvation in shared memory switch2003-09-24 2001-07-20 H04L 12/44CN1446358A High Aspeed DRAM structure with uniform access latency2003-10-01 2001-06-29 G11C 7/22CN1446358T High Aspeed DRAM structure with uniform access latency2003-10-01 2001-06-29 G11C 11/406CN1447974A Method and appts. for synchronzation of row and column access operation2003-10-08 2001-07-06 G11C 7/22CN1447974T Method and appts. for synchronzation of row and column access operation2003-10-08 2001-07-06 G11C 7/22CN1454384A A method and apparatus for simultaneous, differential data sensing and capture in a high speed memory2003-11-05 2000-07-31 G11C 7/06CN1454384T A method and apparatus for simultaneous, differential data sensing and capture in a high speed memory2003-11-05 2000-07-31 G11C 7/10CN1454385A A method and apparatus for accelerating signal equalization between a pair of signal lines2003-11-05 2000-08-31 G11C 7/12CN1454385T A method and apparatus for accelerating signal equalization between a pair of signal lines2003-11-05 2000-08-31 G11C 11/409CN1468482A Method and apparatus for searching a filtering database with one search operation2004-01-14 2001-08-30 H04L 12/46CN1468482T Method and apparatus for searching a filtering database with one search operation2004-01-14 2001-08-30 H04L 12/46CN1486555A Packet encrypton system and method2004-03-31 2001-12-21 H04L 12/56CN1513185A Bitline precharge2004-07-14 2002-04-25 G11C 7/12CN1561522A Circuit and method for performing variable width searches in a content addressable memory2005-01-05 2002-09-27 G11C 15/00CN1593011A Method and apparatus for adaptive data compression2005-03-09 2002-02-11 H03M 7/30CN1605155A Digitally controlled pulse width adjusting circuit2005-04-06 2002-09-20 H03K 5/06CN1620701A Low power content addressable memory architecture2005-05-25 2002-12-05 G11C 15/00CN1623205A Circuit and memory for reducing power usage in a content addressable memory2005-06-01 2002-12-23 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