3Com Corp. (COMS) Wins $45 Million Patent Infringement Case Against Realtek
3Com Corporation (NASDAQ: COMS) yesterday evening announced that on April 9, 2008, a jury in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California awarded the company $45.3 million for past patent infringement by Realtek Semiconductor Corporation (TSE: 2379). The four patent infringements relates to 3Coms network interface technology and parallel processing technology, which improves the data transfer between a personal computer and a network. "We are extremely pleased that the jury has found in favor of 3Com in this important case and recognized the damage caused to 3Com by Realtek's willful actions," said Neal Goldman, 3Com executive vice…