GIGASTORAGE

A New Era of Intellectual Property Rights Licensing
The China Business Review; 3/1/2009; 2420 words; ...Intellectual Property Office granted Gigastorage Corp., a Taiwan compact disc (CD...CD technology. Six years earlier, Gigastorage had agreed to a royalty rate of the...40 percent of the price of a CD, and Gigastorage attempted to renegotiate a 2-5 per

Taiwan: CMC Magnetics and Ritek to raise OEM prices for blank optical discs in August.
TendersInfo; 7/30/2008; 475 words; ...suffer price competition from small makers in Taiwan and China. Taiwan-based second-tier makers Prodisc Technology, Gigastorage and Lead Data all indicated that they are happy to see the price hike and are considering the possibility of negotiating...

Taiwan: Prodisc subject to provisional seizure of bank deposits due to CD-R licensing dispute with Philips.
TendersInfo; 5/8/2008; 643 words; ...second half of 2007, Philips has been separately negotiating license renewals with makers. So far, Daxon Technology and Gigastorage have signed for renewed licensing, while Prodisc is the only maker to fall subject to legal punishment for taking a reluctant...

EU/TAIWAN : EU KEEPS UP PRESSURE ON TAIPEI OVER COMPULSORY LICENSE.
European Report; 4/9/2008; 865 words; ...Philips in its dispute with the local firm Gigastorage. "We have not made progress - the...Administrative Court, issued on 13 March against Gigastorage, will open the way to a positive outcome...TIPO granted compulsory licences to Gigastorage for five patents related to CD-R technology...

TAIWAN HIGH COURT NULLIFIES GOVT COMPULSORY LICENSING DECISION.
AsiaPulse News; 3/14/2008; 937 words; ...granted compulsory licenses to Gigastorage, a relatively small manufacturer...patent holder. Since Philips and Gigastorage have already settled the case...unknown sum of compensation from Gigastorage, the case involves no commercial...