A federal appeals court reinstated Nazomi Communications Inc.’s patent infringement lawsuit against processor company ARM Holdings plc. Nazomi claims ARM’s Jazelle microprocessor for mobile phones infringes on one of its patents.
“Nazomi is confident, given the extensive guidance in today’s Federal Circuit opinion, that the accused ARM microprocessor designs will be found to infringe claims of the Nazomi #6,332,215 patent,” said Jay Kamdar, Nazomi’s president and chief executive officer. “Nazomi looks forward to further proceedings and a trial on the merits.”
“The Federal Circuit has sent the case back to the District Court for a more detailed statement of the claim construction ruling and further analysis to support the non-infringement ruling,” ARM said in a statement. “The Federal Circuit’s opinion did not reject the District Court’s ultimate conclusion, but held simply that the District Court had not provided sufficient detail for a proper appellate review. We are confident that the District Court’s overall conclusions will not change and that ARM will prevail in this case.”
Nazomi sells multimedia application processors to mobile-phone makers. The company’s technology support the processing and performance of Java software, video, imaging, 2D/3D graphics, animation, gaming and other multimedia platforms. The company counts Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, Sharp Corp. and SK Teletech as customers.
