Product category: Design and Development Software
News Release from: Mentor Graphics UK
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 23 August 2002
Court rules Cadence
infringed Mentor patent
The United States District Court for the Northern District of California has granted Mentor's motion for summary judgment of infringement against Cadence Design Systems
In a 19-page opinion entered in Case No C 00-1030 SI, the court found that Cadence's Mercury and MercuryPlus emulator products infringe a claim of Mentor's US Patent No 5,999,725 (the '725 patent). This order follows the same court's summary judgment finding on 9th April 2002 that Cadence's MercuryPlus infringed another Mentor patent.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 23 August 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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"We are certainly pleased that the Court agreed with us that the Mercury and MercuryPlus emulators infringe the '725 patent", said Dean Freed, general counsel of Mentor Graphics.
"As we mentioned earlier this year when we received our first summary judgment of infringement, we believe just as strongly that the three other patents in this case are infringed by Cadence's Mercury and MercuryPlus products.
Hearings on additional summary judgment motions for infringement and invalidity are scheduled for October and November of this year.
A trial of the remaining issues in this case, including Mentor's claim of trade secrets theft, is set for 6th January 2003.
We look forward to finally being able to present our facts to a jury".
Prior to the present summary judgment ruling on the '725 patent, the court invalidated another single claim in the patent.
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