In a statement, ARM said it “is confident that its products do not infringe the patent cited in the Nazomi lawsuit or any other Nazomi patents. ARM thoroughly investigated the Nazomi patent portfolio and developed its products in such a way that they would not infringe any Nazomi patents.”
Mike Muller, ARM's CTO, said: "Having reviewed our technology, it is obvious that we don't infringe the Nazomi patents." The company’s lawyer added that the lawsuit is “frivolous” and “ill-conceived”.
ARM, listed on Nasdaq, licenses its processors, peripherals and System-on-Chip (SoC) designs to leading international electronics companies. In March this year, Sun Microsystems released a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) called “Monty” which was based in part on ARM’s technology. A JVM is needed by a device to run programs written in Java. Monty is aimed at mobile devices and claims to boost the Java language’s performance by a factor of ten on mobile phones.