Frbiz.com reports BT accused MediaTek's mobile phone chip patent infringement

According to Taiwan media report today, British Telecom to the United States District Court in Massachusetts, filed a complaint, alleging infringement MediaTek mobile phone chip, which is MediaTek chips into mobile phones has faced in the first cross-border lawsuits. The speculation that has been called the "cottage Machine father" MediaTek's mobile phone penetration in Europe and America gradually chips attracted attention from major multinational corporations.

MediaTek, said yesterday that British Telecom accused MediaTek infringed patent has expired in October of this year, that is, the patent has expired, MediaTek past and present sales of mobile phone chips did not use the patent The company has commissioned lawyers to handle related proceedings.

It is understood that MediaTek by British Telecom sued the patent is to MediaTek's prior acquisition of American Analog Devices (ADI) mobile phones and wireless communications chip sector obtained a patent, the application software and hardware platform for mobile phones. MediaTek executives say, according to MediaTek and ADI contract terms, derived from the follow-up due to costs associated with infringement will be paid ADI, MediaTek will not be affected.

BT is a British state-owned telecommunications company, by the British General Post Office management, and is currently the UK's largest telecommunications equipment operator. Since February of this year, British Telecom has complained several world-class mobile phone chipmaker Texas Instruments (TI), Broadcom (Broadcom), Freescale (Freescale) and so on, until early November couplet Fake file a complaint.

MediaTek taken the cottage market in mainland China, recently signed with the European operators, Vodafone, into the huge European market, stepped into the European Department of the brand maker Nokia's turf. Industry analysis, British Telecom and Nokia and Sony Ericsson in close contact with British Telecom MediaTek's the purpose of a complaint, in addition to large claims, may also have competition in the market considerations.

Since the MediaTek chips into mobile phones since the system of international cell phone and chip makers are mostly old and established companies, patents, layout like a dragnet, the industry giant will continue to spread certain couplet infringing MediaTek chips for cell phones make a complaint; MediaTek Division in recent years has, through the acquisition of other companies, to foreign makers to buy patents, enforcing its patents and layout, the results of MediaTek chips in mobile phones hit the first case, turned out to be not do hardware, chip carriers.

According to market researcher iSuppli, cottage computer shipments this year, mainland China 145 million, the annual growth rate of 43.6%, 1.13 billion share of the global share of 12.9% of mobile phones