Database Excelleration Systems Inc. Announced the Filing of a Suit for Patent Infringement Against Imperial Technology Inc.SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 19, 1996--Database Excelleration Systems Inc. ("DES"), of Santa Clara announced the filing of a suit for 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. against Imperial Technology Inc. DES, a leading manufacturer of performance enhancement products for client/servers, is the holder of several patents relating to solid state disk storage systems. In its complaint filed in U.S. District Court in San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. , DES seeks both damages for sale by Imperial of infringing solid state disk drives as well as an injunction to restrain and enjoin To direct, require, command, or admonish. Enjoin connotes a degree of urgency, as when a court enjoins one party in a lawsuit by ordering the person to do, or refrain from doing, something to prevent permanent loss to the other party or parties. Imperial from further infringement. Wade B. Tuma, president of DES, said: "DES's patented high reliability backup technology enables database users to obtain the performance advantages offered by solid state disks without the risks normally associated with volatile media storage systems." Designed to enhance database performance, Database Excellerator(TM) products manufactured and sold by DES are plug compatible with electro-mechanical disk drives, reduce access time by several orders of magnitude, provide ultra-high data transmission rates and dramatically increase client/server application performance. The DES Database Excellerator(TM) and Log Excellerator(TM) products complement all RDBMS (Relational DataBase Management System) See relational database and DBMS. RDBMS - relational database such as Sybase, Oracle and Informix, as well as most proprietary database systems. They run on all major UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). and NT hardware platforms, including Sun Microsystems, Hewlett Packard, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Digital, Stratus and Data General. DES provides products and services to a wide range of Fortune 500 companies in major industry sectors such as telecommunications billing services, manufacturing and financial services. For further information please contact DES at 408/727-5497, company contact, Betty Duvall or Deborah Doyle at Lois Paul & Partners, 415/286-3986. CONTACT: Database Excelleration Systems Inc. Betty Duvall, 408/727-5497 or Lois Paul & Partners Deborah Doyle, 415/286-3986 |
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