庇护研究公司,一家员工拥有的总理制造商原子力显微镜,今天宣布,IT和Veeco Instruments Inc.2003年9月开始的已解决。
Under the terms of the settlement, Asylum and Veeco have agreed to drop all pending claims against each other and agreed to a five year, worldwide cross license of each other’s patents and a mutual covenant not to sue on patents either party has a right to assert. Asylum will pay an initial license fee to Veeco plus an ongoing royalty for the five-year term of the cross license. As part of the settlement, Asylum acknowledged the validity of the Veeco patents asserted in the case. Other terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
庇护首席执行官杰森·克利夫兰(Jason Cleveland)说:“我们很高兴这项诉讼在我们的过去,现在我们可以向前迈进。庇护所花费很大一部分的收入在研发上,这反映在我们快速发展的专利组合中。投资组合的交叉许可将使我们和Veeco都能将更好的产品推向市场,这对客户来说是个好消息。”
庇护总裁罗杰·普罗克(Roger Proksch)补充说:“纳米技术市场价值创新。该领域的每个人都会欢迎这场斗争的结束,因为它使我们能够回到做我们最擅长的事情 - 制作出色的AFMS并支持我们的忠实客户。”
John Thornburgh,Seth Sproul,John M. Farrell,John Gartman,Linda Gunderson和Fish&Richardson PC国际律师事务所的贾斯汀·巴恩斯(Fish&Richardson PC)代表了庇护研究。
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