Irish fibre optics company hails Broadcom patent win
Irish fibre optics company Firecomms is claiming victory over Broadcom in a German patent lawsuit.
A statement from the Cork-headquartered company, issued this morning, April 6, says that a Munich district court had rejected an appeal filed by Broadcom and ordered it to bear costs.
The Munich Higher District Court’s ruling came on March 26, said Firecomms.
Firecomms makes fibre optic transceivers and cables for data transfer. The company also has offices in China, with distributors around the world.
Broadcom had appealed an April 2018 ruling of the Munich District Court, which held that Firecomms did not infringe the German designation of one of Broadcom’s European patents.
The Broadcom suit related to Firecomms’ RedLink FR05MHIR and FR10MHIR receivers.
“The real winner here is healthy market competition,” claimed Firecomms managing director John Lambkin.
Broadcom is among the world’s largest providers of semiconductor and infrastructure software. The company was purchased by Avago Technologies, which retained the Broadcom name, for $37 billion in 2015.
In a patent lawsuit filed last month, the company accused Netflix of causing a decline in the demand for traditional cable services requiring set-top boxes.
Broadcom claimed that its patented technology enabled “critical aspects of Netflix’s systems”, which it said had “displaced traditional cable television”.
In the suit, the company accused Netflix of infringing eight patents that it said cover foundational technology utilised by Netflix.
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