The Acer Corporation, longtime maker of computers and computer components, can breathe a big sigh of relief since the SanDisk Corporation has dropped their multi-million dollar lawsuit.

The lawsuit was originally filed in April 2008, and accused Acer of infringing on a variety of patents that included memory cards used in cameras, cell phones and USB drives — according to the a spokesperson at the U.S. International Trade Commission.

SanDisk included 47 companies and subsidiaries in the original filing, and claimed up to five of the original patents used in the development and application of semiconductor chips.  These are the chips that manage flash memory operations in a range of devices like memory cards, media players and a host of other products.

The Acer Corporation was dropped from the lawsuit  when SanDisk learned that Acer had no corporate relationship to Apacer Technology, originally thought to be related to Acer.