Tessera, TI settle patent litigation

Tessera Technologies Inc. has reached settlement with Texas Instruments Inc. regarding the pending litigation between the companies' CSP technology. The settlement includes a royalty-bearing license that covers TI's MicroStar family of FBGA packages. The MicroStar package is primarily used to package TI's DSP technology used in OEM products, such as mobile phones, MP3 players and PDAs.

"Tessera is pleased that it has been able to reach an agreement with TI," said Chris Pickett, SVP, licensing business and general counsel of Tessera. "We look forward to building a positive business relationship with TI as we move forward."