Tegic Wins Patent Infringement Dispute; U.S. District Court In Seattle Summarily Dismisses Zi Corp Claims.SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 13, 1999-- Tegic Communications today announced that the United States District Court United States District Court In the U.S., any of the 94 trial courts of general jurisdiction in the federal judicial system. Each state, as well as the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, has at least one federal district court. in Seattle has summarily and completely dismissed the meritless 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 filed by Zi Corp. of Canada (TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). :ZIC ZIC Zinc Finger Protein ZIC Zurich Insurance Company ZIC Zhuhai International Circuit ZIC Zambia Investment Centre .TO) (Nasdaq:ZICA). The Court found that Zi "had the burden of coming forward with evidence in support of its infringement claim or requesting additional time" and that Zi "had done neither." The suit was dismissed Friday, September 10th, reaffirming the integrity of Tegic's intellectual property. "From the beginning we have been confident that our T9 family of products do not infringe on Zi's O'Dell patent and that Zi's action was simply the desperate action of a company that has consistently failed to successfully compete with Tegic's global standard T9 technology. We are, of course, pleased with the concurrence CONCURRENCE, French law. The equality of rights, or privilege which several persons-have over the same thing; as, for example, the right which two judgment creditors, Whose judgments were rendered at the same time, have to be paid out of the proceeds of real estate bound by them. Dict. de Jur. h.t. of the Court," said Bob Hart, President and 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. of Tegic Communications. "Tegic's superior, patented technology and T9 products are markedly different from the cumbersome implementation of Chinese text input that is contemplated by the O'Dell patent." In the lawsuit filed earlier this year by Zi, the company claimed that Tegic's technology for the input of Chinese characters into mobile phones violated Zi's `O'Dell' 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. patent. The Court found that Tegic's Chinese T9 does not infringe the claims of Zi's patent "either literally or by substantial equivalents." Moreover, the Court repeatedly ruled that Zi's interpretation of the claims of O'Dell "as a whole neither teaches nor suggests" the superior Chinese T9 system. Hart further added, "Courts do not grant summary judgement Noun 1. summary judgement - a judgment rendered by the court prior to a verdict because no material issue of fact exists and one party or the other is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law motions lightly, and the fact that the court granted the motion in this case clearly shows the limited scope of Zi's patent rights and the complete lack of merit of its infringement claim. Tegic never needed to submit information clearly showing the invalidity of Zi's patent, especially in view of the absurd interpretation of the claims proposed by Zi. We believe that the lawsuit was simply a specious spe·cious adj. 1. Having the ring of truth or plausibility but actually fallacious: a specious argument. 2. Deceptively attractive. effort to gain through the courts what Zi's technology could not achieve on its merits in the marketplace." Tegic Communications, the leader in alphabet-based and Japanese and Chinese character-based text input technologies for handheld devices, was founded in 1995 to develop and market text input technologies for the telecommunications and computing industries. The company has worldwide patents, both issued and pending, on T9 Text Input for alphabet-based languages, Chinese, Korean and Japanese and has licensed the technology to major consumer electronics and communications equipment manufacturers worldwide. The courts have not yet examined the issue of Zi's possible infringement of Tegic's patents. T9 Text Input is licensed by wireless phone manufacturers who represent more than 90 percent of the worldwide wireless handset market including such leading wireless phone manufacturers as Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola, Benefon, Bosch, Fujitsu, Maxon, Mitsubishi, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , NeoPoint, Optimay, Philips, Qualcomm, Sagem, Samsung, Siemens, Sony, Texas Instruments and others. For more information about Tegic Communications or T9 Text Input, call 206/343-7001, send e-mail to info@tegic.com, or visit the Company's Web site at www.tegic.com. Tegic is a trademark and T9 is a registered trademark of Tegic Communications. All other trademarks or registered trademarks belong to their respective holders. |
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