Mediatek has paid IBM approximately 9 million dollars for some 350 intellectual property (IP) rights according to a company filiing with the Taiwan Stock Exchange yesterday. According to this report at DigiTimes, the deal allows MediTek to "develop related applications for optical storage drives and handsets."
This is part of a plan by MediaTek to help protect some of it's of its own IP rights, the sources noted. The company recently also bought over 200 IP rights from Sarnoff.
This all comes on the heels of news concerning MediaTek that we reported on last week. Currently, the Taiwanese chip manufacturer is no longer allowed to sell chips that violate the patent of US chipmanufacturer Zoran. Not only did the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) rule that MediaTek was violating the patent, it also issued an exclusion order meaning that MediaTek and specified MediaTek customers are no longer allowed to import these chips to the United States. The exclusion order also encompasses all past, current and future products made or sold by specified MediaTek customers that use infringing MediaTek chips and chipsets.
Source: DigiTimes
