Court Rules in Favor of TMC in Patent Infringement Dispute with IDE.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers PEABODY, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 20, 2004 Technical Manufacturing Corporation ("TMC TMC Technology Marketing Corporation (Norwalk, Connecticut) TMC Texas Medical Center (Houston, TX) TMC Traffic Message Channel TMC The Movie Channel TMC Traffic Management Center ") has received a final judgment entirely in its favor against Integrated Dynamics Engineering, Inc. ("IDE") regarding the ongoing 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. dispute over TMC's STACIS(R) technology patent. On March 29, 2004, Judge Douglas P. Woodlock of the 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. issued his Final Judgment stating that TMC is the lawful owner of United States Patent No. 5,660,255 (dealing with the technology incorporated in TMC's STACIS(R) active vibration control Active vibration control is the active application of force in an equal and opposite fashion to the forces imposed by external vibration. With this application, a precision industrial process can be maintained on a platform essentially vibration-free. product) (the "Patent"), that the Patent is valid and enforceable, and that IDE has infringed the Patent by offering an infringing product for sale. The court further found in favor of TMC on all of IDE's counterclaims. The final judgment orders that IDE, and all of IDE's affiliates, successors in interest, assigns, owners, partners, shareholders, agents, employees and all persons in active concert or participation with them, be and are permanently enjoined from infringing the Patent by making, selling or offering for sale IDE's PTC (PTC, Needham, MA, www.ptc.com) Long a world leader in mechanical computer-aided design, manufacturing and engineering software, PTC, through acquisitions and reorganization, has transformed itself into a leading provider of Internet-based B2B solutions for discrete manufacturers. piezoelectric The property of certain crystals that causes them to produce voltage when a mechanical pressure is applied to them such as sound vibrations. This technique is used to build crystal microphones, phonograph cartridges and strain gauges, all of which turn mechanical movement into voltage. digital control vibration isolator or PTCA PTCA abbr. percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty PTCA Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, see there advanced piezoelectric digital control vibration isolator products or any other product which infringes or would infringe the Patent, by promoting or generating commercial interest in any such IDE products, by representing that IDE has in any way any license to use any technology claimed in the TMC patent, and by representing in any way that IDE has any legal right to make, import, use, sell, or offer for sale any product which infringes or would infringe any of the claims of the TMC Patent. TMC designs and manufactures sophisticated vibration isolation and control products for manufacturing processes and research applications worldwide, including optics, semiconductor manufacturing, microbiology, metrology, and numerous academic, industrial, and military research projects. STACIS is a registered trademark of Technical Manufacturing Corporation |
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