OPTi (OTC:OPTI) Sues NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) and Wins $2M

OPTi Inc. (OTCBB:OPTI) shares were up today on heavy volume on no recent news and no e-mail campaign I am aware of so, I put in a call to the company and will update this release with current information when I hear back from them. In early trading, shares OPTi were up 15 percent at $2.62 per share on volume of 238,000 shares compared to its average daily volume of only 48,000 shares. The company has a market cap of $30 million and a 52-week range between $2.15 and $4.40 per share.

OPTi announced back in September that it entered into a patent licensing and arbitration settlement agreement with NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA). Under the terms of the agreement, not later than October 1, 2010, OPTi will receive one lump sum payment of $2,000,000 for granting NVIDIA a fully paid-up license to the Pre-Snoop patents under the terms of the license agreement that was the subject of a pending arbitration between the parties.

On December 3, 2009, the Company announced that it initiated arbitration against NVIDIA because OPTi believed that NVIDIA breached the terms of a license agreement between NVIDIA and OPTi, dated August 3, 2006. The parties had entered into the August 3, 2006 license agreement in settlement of patent infringement claims that OPTi had brought against NVIDIA. The August 3, 2006 license agreement provided that OPTi was to receive quarterly royalty payments of $750,000 commencing in February 2007 and continuing as long as NVIDIA continued to use OPTi's pre-snoop technology up to a maximum of 12 such payments.

OPTi filed an earlier arbitration against NVIDIA and was awarded five quarterly payments, totaling $3,750,000, for the period of February 1, 2007 to April 30, 2008. Because OPTi believed that NVIDIA had continued to use the pre-snoop technology, but had not made any of the required quarterly payments since the last arbitration ruling, OPTi initiated the December 2009 arbitration. The agreement announced today resolves all issues in the December 2009 arbitration and represents the final payment that will be received by OPTi from NVIDIA under the August 3, 2006 License Agreement.

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