Telular Corp. v. Mentor Graphics Corp.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

BUCKLO, District Judge.

Plaintiff Telular Corporation (“Telular”), a Delaware corporation with its principal place of business in Illinois, designs and manufactures telecommunications devices. In 1996, Telular entered into a contract to purchase digital signal processors (“DSPs”) from defendant Mentor Graphics Corporation (“Mentor Graphics”), an Oregon corporation with its principal place of business in Oregon. Telular indicates that it was developing a product to be built with a certain DSP designed by Texas Instruments (“TIC50”), but that purchase of DSPs from…