District Court Grants Injunction in Favor of National Instruments Against The MathWorks.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 24, 2003 National Instruments National Instruments, or NI (NASDAQ: NATI), is an American company with over 4,000 employees and direct operations in 41 countries founded in 1976 by Dr. James Truchard, Bill Nowlin and Jeff Kodosky. (Nasdaq:NATI NATI National Association of Teen Institutes NATI Newfoundland Association of Technical Industries ) today announced that the District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (Marshall Division) issued an order forbidding the sale of The MathWorks Simulink software product once any appeal has been disposed of in favor of National Instruments. The Honorable T. John Ward upheld the jury's January 2003 verdict finding validity and infringement of U.S. Patent Nos. 4,901,221, 4,914,568 and 5,301,336. The patents relate to National Instruments LabVIEW software, which contains major innovations in programming design tools. "We are pleased that the Court upheld the jury verdict," said Dr. James Truchard Dr. James Joseph Truchard (born June 25, 1943 in Austin County, Texas) is the co-founder and current president and CEO of National Instruments, a company producing automated test equipment and virtual instrumentation software. , NI president, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and cofounder co·found tr.v. co·found·ed, co·found·ing, co·founds To establish or found in concert with another or others. co·found . "LabVIEW has had a revolutionary impact on scientists and engineers with its innovative virtual instrumentation Virtual Instrumentation is the use of customizable software and modular measurement hardware to create user-defined measurement systems, called virtual instruments. approach. We've invested heavily in the intellectual property in LabVIEW and the judge's ruling further protects our intellectual property." National Instruments is currently offering the LabVIEW Simulation Interface Toolkit (http://sine.ni.com/apps/we/nioc.vp?cid=11763&lang=US), which adds the power of the LabVIEW user interface to the Simulink environment. With the LabVIEW Simulation Interface Toolkit, design engineers can use LabVIEW-based user interfaces to intuitively control and view data within their control models. The toolkit gives The MathWorks customers a licensed manner to control and view Simulink data under the National Instruments patents currently at issue in the 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. lawsuit. National Instruments has a second patent suit currently pending in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas alleging infringement by The MathWorks of four additional LabVIEW patents held by National Instruments. About National Instruments National Instruments (www.ni.com) is a technology pioneer and leader in virtual instrumentation -- a revolutionary concept that has changed the way engineers and scientists approach measurement and automation. Leveraging the PC and its related technologies, virtual instrumentation increases productivity and lowers costs for customers worldwide through easy-to-integrate software, such as the NI LabVIEW graphical development environment, and modular hardware. For the past four consecutive years, FORTUNE magazine has named NI one of the 100 best companies to work for in America. Readers may obtain investment information from the company's investor relations Investor relations The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors. department at 512/683-5090, by sending e-mail to nati@ni.com or on the Web at www.ni.com/nati. LabVIEW(tm), NI(tm) and ni.com(tm) are trademarks of National Instruments. Simulink(R) is a registered trademark of The MathWorks Inc. Further product and company names listed are trademarks or trade names of their respective companies. |
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