SMART Modular Patent Claims Rejected by the United States Patent & Trademark Office

SMART Modular Patent Claims Rejected by the United States Patent & Trademark Office

IRVINE, CA — (Marketwire) — 12/10/12 — Netlist, Inc. (NASDAQ: NLST), a leading provider of high performance memory solutions for the cloud computing market, announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has ordered reexamination and rejected all of the claims of United States Patent No. 8,250,295 (-295 patent) which have been asserted in a patent infringement lawsuit filed by Smart Modular Technologies, Inc. ("SMART") against Netlist. Netlist requested