Message #19 From:
Jason Date: June 25, 2008 05:18:50 PM
SCNI Stock: NVIDIA Corporation and ICOS Vision Systems File Declaratory Judgment Complaints against Scanner Technologies
Scanner Technologies Corporation (OTCBB:SCNI stock) today announced that
NVIDIA Corporation and ICOS Vision Systems N.V. have filed declaratory
judgment complaints against Scanner Technologies in the U.S. District
Court for the Southern District of New York. The complaints seek rulings
that various patents owned by Scanner Technologies are invalid and not
infringed by BGA devices manufactured by NVIDIA and inspection equipment
manufactured ICOS.
Scanner had previously sued NVIDIA in 2006 alleging that it sold
infringing BGA devices covered by one or more claims of U.S. Patents
7,079,678 and 7,085,411. That case was dismissed in 2007 after the New
York court judged those patents, and other related patents, to be
unenforcable.
However, a recent ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the
Federal Circuit vacated the New York judgment affecting the related
patents, stating “Because we hold that the
district court erred in holding the patents in suit unenforceable for
inequitable conduct, we necessarily vacate the district court’s
judgment that the related patents not in suit are unenforceable.”
Additional related patents owned by Scanner affected by the Federal
Circuit ruling include U.S. Patents 6,915,007, 6,915,006, 6,862,365, and
6,072,898.
The Court of Appeals ruling also affirmed decisions of noninfringement
and invalidity of U.S. patents 6,064,756 and 6,064,757 owned by Scanner.
About Scanner Technologies Corporation:
Scanner is a New Mexico corporation that invents, develops and markets
vision inspection products that are used in the semiconductor industry
for the inspection of integrated circuits. Scanner's headquarters are
located in Minneapolis, Minnesota and has a manufacturing facility in
Tempe, Arizona. Scanner's stock is traded on the Over-The-Counter
Bulletin Board under the symbol “SCNI.”
For more information please visit www.scannertech.com.
