Agilent Technologies to purchase Moore Microprocessor patent license
As the tenth company to purchase an MMP Portfolio license this year, Agilent Technologies is preceded by HP, Casio, Fujitsu, Sony, Nikon, Seiko Epson, Pentax, Olympus and Kenwood.
"As we welcome Agilent Technologies to our distinguished roster of MMP licensees, we also want to encourage all electronic product manufacturers to contact us regarding the significant advantages of becoming an early MMP Portfolio licensee," said Mike Davis, Alliacense Sr. Vice President, Licensing.
According to Davis, Agilent Technologies has captured one of the "first-mover" MMP Portfolio licensing berths, which encompass Electronic Measurement, Bioanalytical Measurement, and Semiconductor Test Solutions products. The MMP Portfolio patents, filed by The TPL Group in the 1980s, cover techniques that enable higher performance and lower cost designs, and are fundamental to consumer and commercial digital systems ranging from DVD players, cell phones and portable music players to communications infrastructure, medical equipment -- and automobiles which today have dozens of microprocessor-based key features and benefits.