Organisation: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company

NPE sells patents to Qualcomm, TSMC in close proximity to litigation settlements

Daedalus Prime had asserted former Intel patent assets against the semiconductor firms and now has sold patents to them

06 June 2024

Revealed: The IAM Asia Elite of 2024

Our annual list of the region’s best in the business now boasts 93 organisations, with Japanese companies scooping the most spots

06 June 2024

Software assets dominate market: patent transactions in Q1 2024

AST reports that deal numbers were influenced by economic conditions, trends in litigation funding, licensing cycles, and operating companies selling non-core assets

04 June 2024

TSMC's IP head on using a multi-pronged IP strategy to drive growth

The world’s largest semiconductor maker expects to keep facing NPE lawsuits as it expands globally, IP associate general counsel Billie Chen reveals

28 February 2024

TSMC’s gold-plated approach to trade secrets strategy

IAM caught up with Associate General Counsel Dr Fortune Shieh about rewarding innovators and how the company clocked up more than 100,000 new trade secrets in a single year

19 January 2024

Intel is a major patent force and that matters

The chipmaker has taken a number of hits to its business, but analysis of its IP holdings shows that it could still have a few tricks up its sleeve

07 August 2020

Taiwan Semiconductor bolsters portfolio in AMD, RPX deals

The chipmaker picked up over 100 US patents in transactions executed last year, assignments show

25 February 2020

Five things to know about Globalfoundries’ big litigation play

TSMC is the target and nineteen other tech firms are in the crossfire. Here are the takeaways from a big chip sector dispute that’s taking on a trade war tinge

29 August 2019

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