Ren Zhengfei, president of Huawei, revealed in a new year's greeting letter to employees that the company realized sales of over USD30 billion in 2009, with sales income of USD21.5 billion.

ADT Security Services, a Tyco International company, has had its patent lawsuit in China against ZhenTai Science & Technology Company upheld by a Chinese court.

Taiwan-headquartered fabless semiconductor company MediaTek Inc. and the U.S. wireless communication technology developer Qualcomm have signed a patent cross-licensing agreement.

Shanghai-based NOD Pharmaceuticals Inc. has announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has approved the patent application for its nano-particle oral delivery technology.

China-based Ninestar Image Company has acknowledged it has infringed of patents held by HP for inkjet cartridges and reached a settlement with HP.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C., has just affirmed a decision made by the U.S. International Trade Commission in which China-based Ninestar Technologies was found guilty of infringing Epson's printer cartridge patents.

According to the decision announced by the Intermediate People's Court of Hangzhou, the Korean electronics maker Samsung has been ordered to pay CNY50 million compensation to the Zhejiang-based Holley Communications for infringing the patent of Holley's GSM/CDMA dual-mode handsets.

A microbial fertilizer developed by Dr. Ma Lintao while conducting research in the China Space Program will be manufactured and marketed by a new joint venture in China.

Beijing No. 1 Secondary People's Court has sentenced four Chinese companies, including Beijing Shiji Yuehua Technology Development Center, to pay CNY1.15 million in compensation to Nippon Electric Company Limit for making and selling fake keyboards with the NEC brand.

Proving that patents are very important in China, Bayer CropScience says it has filed a lawsuit against the Chinese company Jiangsu Tian Rong in an intermediate court in Jiangsu to enforce rights under its Chinese Mefenpyr patent.