Akamai Files Patent Infringement Suit Against Digital Island.Business/Technology Editors CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 18, 2000 Akamai Technologies Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) is a company that provides a distributed computing platform for global Internet content and application delivery, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. , Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : AKAM AKAM Akamai Technologies, Inc. (stock abbreviation) AKAM Automated Key Access Machine ), the foremost provider of global, high performance services for the delivery of Internet content, streaming media, and applications, announced today that it has filed a patent infringement patent infringement n. the manufacture and/or use of an invention or improvement for which someone else owns a patent issued by the government, without obtaining permission of the owner of the patent by contract, license or waiver. suit against Digital Island, Inc. The suit involves U.S. Patent No. 6,108,703, entitled "Global Hosting System," which issued from the United States Patent & Trademark Office on August 22, 2000. The `703 patent covers certain innovative aspects of Akamai's FreeFlow content delivery service. The suit claims that a current version of Digital Island's competing content delivery service, called Footprint, infringes the `703 patent. The version of Footprint that is alleged to infringe the `703 patent was introduced by Digital Island following Akamai's successful introduction of its FreeFlow service. The suit, which was filed in United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts The United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts is the Federal district court whose jurisdiction is the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The first court session was held in Boston in 1789. , seeks damages and equitable relief. About Akamai Akamai is the foremost provider of global, high performance services for the delivery of Internet content, streaming media, and applications, serving over 2,100 customers. Akamai has the broadest deployment of servers for content, streaming media, and applications delivery with more than 4,200 servers in 50 countries directly connected to 225 different telecommunications networks. Akamai (pronounced AH kuh my) is Hawaiian for intelligent, clever and cool. Akamai Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and The release contains information about future expectations, plans and prospects of Akamai's management that constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors including, but not limited to, a challenge, invalidation or circumvention of any of Akamai's patent rights, the dependence on Akamai's Internet content delivery service, a failure of its network infrastructure, the complexity of its service and the networks on which the service is deployed, the failure to obtain access to transmission capacity and other factors that are discussed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. and other documents periodically filed with the SEC. |
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