Back to the Future (Lubrizol): Qimonda Bankruptcy Provides Debtors With a Windfall at the Expense of Their IP Licensees

摘要

Qimonda AG, an Infineon Technologies AG spinoff, was once the world's second-largest manufacturer of dynamic random access memory, or DRAM. However, this German giant felt the woes of the DRAM market and filed for bankruptcy in a German court in January 2009.rnWith the boom of global restructurings in the great recession, this story thus far, unfortunately, lacks a unique storyline. However, the Qimonda bankruptcy may have quietly struck a rather astonishing blow to intellectual property licensees' rights.