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Quanta and LG settle eight-year patent dispute

27 August 2008

Eklavya Gupte, London

Quanta Computer is to pay royalties to LG Electronics for use of its patents on microprocessor chips and chip computer technology, after they settled their eight-year dispute this week

The agreement came almost two months after the US Supreme Court ruled in favour of Quanta on the question of patent exhaustion.

The agreement ends the litigation between the parties in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. They both filed stipulations with the...



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