The U.S. International Trade Commission will looks into flash storage chips. This is used by Apple, Research In Motion, Dell, Asus, Sony, Lenovo and other vendors after a company claiming five patents on flash technology sought to ban the importation of the chips and devices that use them.
BTG alleges, some Samsung chips break its patents on multilevel NAND flash memory.The chips are used in a range of the first-generation iPhone 8GB, Asus Eee PC netbook, MacBook Air, Lenovo ThinkPad X301, Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-T2 camera and flash cards and storage devices products, according to the suit.
In US, Once filing a suit against the manufacturers on July 20 after that BTG International went to the ITC on July 27.
In third generation, iPod Shuffle 4GB and second-generation iPod Touch 16GB products are included. The Dell D630 and Sony Vaio VGN-TT190 laptops are named to the Lenovo X301.