Sandisk has filed three law-suits against a total of 25 defendants for infringing their patents for flash memory.
The following article from PC-World, is a fairly good overview of this development:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,138919-c,compactflash/article.html
Sandisk is a US firm that was founded by an Israeli and which recently bought out Israel firm M-Systems last year.
