CFM Announces Action in Patent Suit.Business Editors EXTON, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 5, 2000 CFM Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: CFMT CFMT Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee CFMT Canada’s First Multicultural Television CFMT Ceinwen Faulkner Memorial Trust CFMT Cooperative Fusion Machine Translation ) announced today that the United States District Court for the District of Delaware The United States District Court for the District of Delaware is the Federal district court having jurisdiction over the entire state of Delaware. The Court sits in Wilmington. Currently, three judges and two magistrate judges preside over the court. has granted YieldUP International's motion for summary judgment motion for summary judgment n. a written request for a judgment in the moving party's favor before a lawsuit goes to trial and based on recorded (testimony outside court) affidavits (or declarations under penalty of perjury), depositions, admissions of fact, answers of invalidity in a lawsuit brought by CFM, alleging infringement of U.S. Patent Nos. 4,917,123 and 4,778,532. A separate action alleging infringement of U.S. Patent No. 4,911,761 by YieldUP is still pending. "Our rights with regard to the '761 patent have been upheld consistently since 1997 in Court rulings in our 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. against Steag MicroTech, Inc.," said Roger Carolin, CFM's President and Chief Executive Officer. "While we are disappointed with this decision, the Court's ruling does not challenge or diminish those rights. We continue to seek a permanent injunction permanent injunction n. a final order of a court that a person or entity refrain from certain activities permanently or take certain actions (usually to correct a nuisance) until completed. preventing YieldUP and its parent, FSI FSI Foreign Service Institute FSI Fluid Structure Interaction FSI Fuel Stratified Injection FSI Federazione Scacchistica Italiana (Italian Chess Federation) FSI Free Standing Insert FSI Flight Simulator International Inc., from using, making or selling equipment that violates this patent which covers key aspects of the Company's Direct Displacement(TM) drying technology." The Company declined to announce whether it will appeal today's decision. The discussion above includes certain forward-looking statements with regard to the outcome of pending patent litigation. As such, actual results may vary materially from such expectations. CFM believes that it will prevail in the legal proceedings described above; however, there can be no assurance of such outcome, and an adverse determination in this proceeding could have a material adverse effect on the Company. CFM Technologies, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of advanced cleaning equipment for the semiconductor industry. CFM's systems provide superior contamination control and processing capabilities using a totally enclosed processing chamber. CFM's Direct-Displace(TM) IPA IPA - International Phonetic Alphabet vapor-drying technology eliminates watermarks and other drying defects. CFM historically has developed technical innovations to lower cost of ownership for advanced wet processing systems. |
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