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$8.89 per diluted share in 2008, an increase of 13%. loci, representing over ten times more genetic mar-
Revenues for 2009 totaled $95.8 billion, a decrease kers than the company‘s industry-leading BovineS-
of 8%, compared with $103.6 billion in 2008. IBM NP50 BeadChip.
ended 2009 with $14.0 billion of cash on hand and
http://www.illumina.com
generated free cash flow of $15.1 billion, up more
than $800 million year over year.
http://www.ibm.com/investor/4q09/press.phtml I
nfineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX / OTCQX:
IFNNY) filed a patent infringement lawsuit against
Volterra Semiconductor Corporation in the United
I
llumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) announced its States District Court for the District of Delaware. The
financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal suit seeks damages, including enhanced damages for
year of 2009: Fourth quarter 2009 results: Revenue willful infringement and injunctive relief. The suit
of $180.6 million, a 12% increase over the $160.9 alleges that Volterra’s voltage regulators and pulse
million reported in the fourth quarter of 2008; GAAP width modulation controllers infringe four United
net income for the quarter of $11.7 million, or $0.09 States patents owned by Infineon. Voltage regulators
per diluted share, compared to net income of $26.1 and pulse width modulation controllers provide and
million, or $0.20 per diluted share in the compara- maintain the power needed by the central/graphic
ble period of 2008. Fiscal 2009 results: Revenue processing unit (CPU/GPU) in servers, PCs, note-
of $666.3 million, a 16% increase over the $573.2 books and high-end graphics cards.
million reported in fiscal 2008; GAAP net income of
$72.3 million, or $0.53 per diluted share, compared Volterra has previously sued Infineon in November
to $39.4 million or $0.30 per share in 2008. 2009 2008 for patent infringement in the United States
GAAP net income included non-cash charges of District Court for the Northern District of California.
$60.8 million related to stock compensation expen- In July 2009, Volterra filed a motion in that matter
se, $19.7 million in non-cash interest expense, $11.3 for a preliminary injunction, which was later denied
million of in-process research and development pri- by the district court. No trial date has been set in that
marily associated with the acquisition of Avantome, matter. The three patents asserted by Volterra in the
Inc., and other items listed in the table entitled „An action filed by Volterra in California are the subjects
Itemized Reconciliation Between GAAP and Non- of pending reexamination proceedings that are cur-
GAAP Net Income.“ rently before the United States Patent and Trademark
Office. The Patent Office has issued formal rejections
Illumina announced further the next-generation of all of the asserted claims as to two of the three
High-Density Bovine BeadChip (BovineHD) array patents. The Patent Office has not filed a formal
product using its Infinium
®
HD assay. The chip con- response as to the third patent, but that is expected
tains data from more than 20 diverse breeds that was shortly.
generated from recent sequencing largely done with
http://www.infineon.com
Illumina Genome AnalyzerIIx technology. The Bovi-
neHD BeadChip will interrogate more than 500,000
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