BackWeb Announces Settlement Agreement with Sybase and Trial Date for Patent Infringement Lawsuit.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif. -- BackWeb Technologies Ltd. (Pink Sheets: BWEBF or BWEBF.PK) announced today that it has reached a settlement in its previously announced 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. litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. with Sybase, Inc. and its subsidiary iAnywhere Solutions iAnywhere Solutions, Inc., a subsidiary of Sybase, Inc., (NYSE: SY) is a software company specializing in mobility (mobile computing), management and security and enterprise caliber database software. , Inc. It also announced that a trial date of April 4, 2011 has been set by the court for the trial concerning BackWeb's lawsuit against the remaining defendants, Microsoft Corporation (company) Microsoft Corporation - The biggest supplier of operating systems and other software for IBM PC compatibles. Software products include MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Microsoft Access, LAN Manager, MS Client, SQL Server, Open Data Base Connectivity (ODBC), MS Mail, and Symantec Corporation. On March 20, 2009, BackWeb filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Microsoft Corporation, alleging patent infringement and seeking damages, an injunction and a declaration by the Court that Microsoft's software update technologies infringe BackWeb's patents. On April 15, 2009 the lawsuit was amended to include Sybase and iAnywhere. On July 22, 2009 the lawsuit was amended to include Symantec Corporation. BackWeb and Sybase have negotiated a settlement agreement under which Sybase and iAnywhere acquired a license to the BackWeb patents in question and the companies' claims have been resolved. Terms of the agreement remain confidential. In a case management conference on September 15th, United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. District Judge Claudia Wilken of the Northern District Court of California issued orders concerning case scheduling. A trial date was set for April 4, 2011. The complete Minute Order and Case Management Order is available in the news section of the BackWeb web site at http://www.backweb.com/news-events/. BackWeb is being represented in this matter by Hosie Rice LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol , a San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden law firm that focuses on intellectual property litigation. To be added to BackWeb's e-mail news distribution, please send a request to bwebf@backweb.com. About BackWeb: BackWeb([R]) Technologies Ltd. (www.backweb.com) has developed a range of communications technologies and solutions enabling enterprise digital distribution of important information and digital assets. BackWeb's patented web and polite synchronization (1) See synchronous and synchronous transmission. (2) Ensuring that two sets of data are always the same. See data synchronization. (3) Keeping time-of-day clocks in two devices set to the same time. See NTP. technologies enable scalable and economical delivery of large numbers of messages and quantities of data to many recipients. BackWeb's operations are based in San Jose, CA and Rosh Ha 'ayin, Israel. BackWeb has approximately 41.3 million shares outstanding. [c] 2009 BackWeb Technologies Ltd. All rights reserved. BackWeb is a registered trademark. Sybase and iAnywhere are trademarks of Sybase Incorporated or its subsidiaries. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. Statements in this news release that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, including statements of beliefs, plans, expectations or intentions regarding the future. Such forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, comments concerning BackWeb's patents and alleged infringements thereof. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations include but are not limited to the uncertainties related to, and findings of, the legal process associated with such allegations. BackWeb assumes no obligation to update any of the forward-looking statements in this release. |
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