Date: 20/01/2012

Cypress Semiconductor releases Alcatel- Lucent in a patent infringment case

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. has announced that it has filed a joint motion to release Alcatel-Lucent from Cypress's complaint to the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) regarding alleged infringement of Cypress's SRAM patents by GSI Technology, Inc. Cypress's complaint seeks an exclusion order from the ITC that will prevent the importation of all infringing GSI SRAMs.

The ITC action against GSI lists known importers of products that incorporate the accused GSI SRAMs. Cypress has reached an agreement with Alcatel-Lucent which resulted in the removal of the company from the ITC action.

"We're pleased to reach agreement with Alcatel-Lucent in order to remove another customer from this case," said Dana Nazarian, Executive Vice President of Cypress's Memory Products Division. "This brings the number of customers who have been released from the complaint to four. We're hopeful that we can reach agreement with other customers to respect Cypress's intellectual property and thereby be released from the complaint as well."