Corning Confirms Court Decision Relating to Furukawa Patent.CORNING, N.Y. -- Corning Incorporated Corning Incorporated NYSE: GLW is an American manufacturer of glass, ceramics and related materials, primarily for industrial and scientific applications. The company was known until 1989 as Corning Glass Works. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : GLW GLW Glasgow Airport (UK) GLW Gross Laden Weight GLW Good Lady Wife (Australia) ) confirmed that a Japanese court on Oct. 29, 2004 dismissed the suit filed by Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. ("Furukawa") against Corning Cable Systems International Corp., a subsidiary of Corning Incorporated. In this suit, Furukawa had claimed that optical fiber cables sold by Corning Cable Systems infringed a Japanese patent held by Furukawa which covers a specific design of optical fiber ribbon cable A thin, flat, multiconductor cable that is widely used for internal peripheral connections in electronic systems. In a PC, a 34-wire ribbon connects the floppy drive (if present) to the motherboard. . This Japanese patent expired earlier this year. In its Oct. 29 decision, the Japanese court found that Corning Cable System's products did not infringe in·fringe v. in·fringed, in·fring·ing, in·fring·es v.tr. 1. To transgress or exceed the limits of; violate: infringe a contract; infringe a patent. 2. Furukawa's patent and dismissed Furukawa's claim on that basis. "Corning Cable Systems is pleased that the court properly decided this issue," said Larry Aiello, Jr., president and chief executive officer, Corning Cable Systems. "The court's decision confirms what we have always believed: that our products never used the design claimed in Furukawa's now expired patent." About Corning Incorporated Corning Incorporated (www.corning.com) is a diversified technology company that concentrates its efforts on high-impact growth opportunities. Corning combines its expertise in specialty glass, ceramic materials, polymers and the manipulation of the properties of light, with strong process and manufacturing capabilities to develop, engineer and commercialize significant innovative products for the telecommunications, flat panel display A thin display screen for computer and TV usage. The first flat panels appeared on laptop computers in the mid-1980s, and the LCD technology became the standard. Stand-alone LCD screens became available for desktop computers in the mid-1990s and exceeded sales of CRTs for the first time , environmental, semiconductor, and life sciences industries. |
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