On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Alan B. Pearce wrote:
> I have just seen in an electronics weekly paper that Philips have
> filed a case in American courts against 6 companies for I2C patent
> infringements. I cannot remember all the company names but Analog
> Devices and Cypress were mentioned. Microchip was not mentioned. It
> was not clear from the article exactly what was infringed, but it did
> mention that there something like 38 licensees of the patent.

Analog Devices, Inc. of Norwood, MA
Cirrus Logic, Inc. of Austin, TX
Cypress Semiconductor Corporation of San Jose, CA
Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation of South Portland, ME
Linear Technology Corporation of Milpitas, CA
Standard Microsystems Corporation of Hauppauge, NY

Here is a link to the article.

http://live.altavista.com/scripts/editorial.dll?ei=2243434&ern=y

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