Entegris Reaches Agreement With Japan Competitor For Letter-Of-Intent On Licensing Entegris Patents.CHASKA, Minn. -- Entegris, Inc., (Nasdaq:ENTG) announced today that one of its three Japanese competitors in the semiconductor wafer carrier market has agreed to a letter-of-intent to license a portion of Entegris' patent portfolio for its wafer carrier and shipper products. The agreement involves licensing Entegris' premiere 300 mm wafer carrier technology - typically utilized in FOUP FOUP Front Opening Unified Pod (Front Opening Unified Pod) and FOSB FOSB Front-Opening Shipping Box (container for wafers) (Front Opening Shipping Box) applications. Entegris, the materials integrity management leader, (corporate headquarters in Chaska, Minnesota This article is about the city of Chaska, Minnesota. For other senses of the word Chaska, see Chaska. Chaska is a city in Carver County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 17,449 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Carver County6. , USA) participated in the SEMICON SEMICON Semiconductors Equipment and Material International Conference 2004 semiconductor trade show last week in Japan. As a leader in the materials integrity management industry, Entegris has built a solid tradition for establishing intellectual property rights on the product innovations it deploys to the market place. With a portfolio of 179 U.S. patents and 259 foreign patents, the company has long valued its strong patent portfolio position. This position reflects the company's focus on advanced science and cutting-edge technology in maintaining an industry leadership role in its global markets. Entegris officials say the agreement is welcome news and the right course of action in this situation in order to responsibly and vigorously protect its patents. "Like any major technology company, Entegris believes that it's appropriate and necessary to protect the intellectual property rights generated by our innovation engines," said Patrick McKinney, president of the company's semiconductor market segment. "Parts of our 300 mm technology portfolio are recognized as material to 300 mm wafer carrier standards by SEMI. As part of our long-standing support of SEMI and the industry, we will license our technology in a fair and non-discriminatory manner as described in SEMI regulations to our competitors." Entegris is a leading supplier of materials integrity management products and services to industries in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe, Japan and Asia Pacific. With business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets also in the life sciences, data storage, fuel cell and services fields, the semiconductor market is the company's largest for products and sales. Entegris sales to Japan made up 16% of the company's total business revenues in fiscal year 2004 (ending August 28, 2004), with most of those sales being in the semiconductor market. ABOUT ENTEGRIS Entegris products and services protect and transport the critical materials enabling the world's leading technologies. As a leading materials integrity management company, Entegris provides products and services used in key technology industries including the semiconductor, data storage, chemical processing, biopharmaceutical, medical device and fuel cell. Entegris is ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 9001 certified and has manufacturing or service facilities in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Germany, Japan, Malaysia and Singapore. The company's advanced research laboratories are located in Minnesota and Colorado, USA. Directly and through distributors, Entegris provides customer support on six continents Six Continents is a large retail PLC in UK which split into Six Continents Retail known as Mitchells and Butlers plc. The hotels and soft drinks business of Six Continents PLC is now known as InterContinental Hotels Group PLC. . Additional information can be found at: http://www.entegris.com |
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