Sisvel-Sandisk: ''Is Confirmed the Seizure Ordered by the Public Prosecutor of Sandisk MP3 Players at IFA 2006''

The Criminal Chamber of the Landgericht (regional court) Berlin in
Germany has recently ruled that the seizure ordered by the Public
Prosecutor's Office of Berlin of all of the MP3 players marketed as
part of SanDisk's "Sansa" product lines and the related advertising
material exhibited at the SanDisk booth at IFA 2006 was legal. In its
decision, the Berlin court stated that it was "of the opinion that
there are sufficient grounds for suspicion of deliberate patent
infringement". Since all the other legal requirements were also met,
the Berlin court confirmed that the seizure of the SanDisk MP3 players
and the advertising material was legitimate.

"It was good to learn about the ruling of the Court," said Ing.
Paolo D'Amato, Ceo of Sisvel Spa. "SanDisk should not be surprised by
this decision. All the MP3 players sold by the most important consumer
electronics companies in the world are licensed under the patents that
Audio MPEG and Sisvel license, including the famous iPod of Apple, the
new Zune of Microsoft, the award winning Zen of Creative, and all the
MP3-capable cell phones sold by Motorola, Nokia, and Sony-Ericsson,
while the MP3 players sold by SanDisk are not."