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Fujitsu wins lawsuit against Nanya

Fujitsu Ltd said yesterday it won a lawsuit against Nanya Technology Co (南亞科技) for infringing semiconductor patents.

The Tokyo District Court ruled in favor of Fujitsu for patents used in computer memory products sold by Nanya's Japanese unit, Tokyo-based Fujitsu said yesterday. Fujitsu was awarded the ?100 million (US$865,000) compensation it had been seeking, spokesman Etsuro Yamada said.

Nanya finance director Tommy Kuo (郭昌明) declined to say if the company would appeal.

Fujitsu on Oct. 23 last year filed a suit in San Jose, California, over four US patents covering dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips used to store data in computers, after Nanya sued the Japanese company a month earlier in the US District Court in Guam.

"Of course Japan will rule in favor of Fujitsu," Kuo said by telephone. "The US court hasn't made any ruling, and we have hired lawyers to deal with the US trial."

The Tokyo court also ordered further import and sales of the relevant Nanya products to be stopped.

Fujitsu stopped making DRAM chips in 2001 and now focuses on semiconductors called system LSI, which combine several computing functions on one piece of silicon for use in flat-panel televisions, set-top boxes and automobiles.
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