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Friday, January 03, 2014

ON Semiconductor Sues CMOSIS Over 4 Patents

Law360: ON Semiconductor sues CMOSIS and others for allegedly infringing four of its patents covering image sensor technology, including two patents by one of CMOSIS's co-founders, Guy Meynants, according to the court documents. The U.S. patents are 5933190, 6011251, 7408195 and 7608516.

Update: ON Semi also sued San Diego-based AlliedSens LLC, CMOSIS distributor in the US, and German Leica Camera AG, which uses CMOSIS sensors into one of its cameras. ON Semiconductor sent CMOSIS a cease-and-desist letter in late September 2013, but the CMOSIS denied that its products infringe the asserted patents, the complaint says.
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10 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 3, 2014 at 2:18 PM

    Good timing...

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  2. UnknownJanuary 3, 2014 at 2:26 PM

    The first two patents are invented by Bart Dierickx and the last two are invented by Guy Meynants

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  3. AnonymousJanuary 3, 2014 at 3:40 PM

    This post suggest to engineers: if you ever plan to open your own company, never develop or patent new ideas while working for somebody else. One day you might get sued for copying your own idea ;).

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    1. AnonymousJanuary 3, 2014 at 4:22 PM

      but if someone else does this in YOUR company, you will not be happy :)=

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    2. AnonymousJanuary 3, 2014 at 5:06 PM

      In any case, giving your company a million dollar idea for a $1-2K in patent bonus is always something that should be carefully considered. :)

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  4. AnonymousJanuary 6, 2014 at 10:23 PM

    Can someone please provide color regarding how these original 2 imec patents, 190 and 251 were transfered to OnSemi....hence the suit? This is a very strange suit since both CMOSIS and OnSemi are part of imec's development partnership programs, according to imec.

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    1. Dave GilblomJanuary 6, 2014 at 11:17 PM

      IMEC to FillFactory to Cypress Semi to ON Semi.

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  5. AnonymousJanuary 10, 2014 at 2:21 PM

    ON Semi sueing Leica Camera AG is frankly stupid and short sighted and shows how crazy American companies have become.

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    1. AnonymousJanuary 10, 2014 at 2:40 PM

      It is not a stupid strategy at all. It puts pressure on CMOSIS to settle. It is like when a mobster threatens not only you, but also your family. Not that ON is a mobster, I am just trying to explain the point.

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  6. AnonymousMay 17, 2014 at 8:18 AM

    For those still interested in this case (ED Texas - O/Ref: CMO1049): the case file can be consulted online. From the Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) one learns that a request for “dismissal” has been filed and decided. Reference is made to a settlement, but no details thereof are available.

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