Forgent Announces Trial Date for Patent Infringement Case
AUSTIN, TX--(MARKET WIRE)--Feb 3, 2005 -- Forgent Networks (NasdaqNM:FORG - News) along with its wholly owned subsidiary, Compression Labs, Inc. ("CLI"), today announced that, at a proceeding on January 31, 2005, in CLI's patent infringement case against 41 defendants involving United States Patent No. 4,698,672 (the '672 Patent) in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Judge David Folsom set Markman hearing on claim construction for April 28, 2005, and left in place the October 2005 setting for the jury trial in the case. The court will issue a formal scheduling order that specifies additional deadlines and dates leading to an October 2005 trial.
The defendants are: Acer America Corporation, Agfa Corporation, Apple Computer, Incorporated (NasdaqNM:AAPL - News), Axis Communications, Incorporated, BancTec, Inc., BenQ America Corporation, Canon, USA, Concord Camera Corporation (NasdaqNM:LENSE - News), Color Dreams, Inc. (d/b/a StarDot Technologies), Creative Labs, Incorporated, Creo, Inc. (NasdaqNM:CREO - News), Creo Americas, Inc., Dell Incorporated (NasdaqNM:DELL - News), Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE:EK - News), Fuji Photo Film Co. U.S.A., Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Gateway, Inc. (NYSE:GTW - News), Google Inc. (NasdaqNM:GOOG - News), Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HPQ - News), International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM - News), JASC Software, JVC Americas Corporation, Kyocera Wireless Corporation, Matsushita Electric Corporation of America, Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America, Incorporated, Oce' North America, Incorporated, Onkyo Corporation, PalmOne, Inc. (NasdaqNM:PLMO - News), Panasonic Communications Corporation of America, Panasonic Mobile Communications Development Corporation of USA, Ricoh Corporation, Riverdeep, Incorporated (d.b.a. Broderbund), Savin Corporation, ScanSoft, Inc. (NasdaqNM:SSFT - News), Sun Microsystems Inc. (NasdaqNM:SUNW - News), Thomson S.A. (NYSE:TMS - News), TiVo Inc. (NasdaqNM:TIVO - News), Toshiba Corporation, Veo Inc., Xerox Corporation (NYSE:XRX - News) and Yahoo! Inc. (NasdaqNM:YHOO - News)
Since its inception three years ago, Forgent's intellectual property program has generated more than $100 million from licensing the '672 Patent to more than 35 different companies in Asia, Europe and the United States. The '672 Patent relates to digital image compression, and fields of use include digital still image devices used to compress, store, manipulate, print or transmit digital still images such as digital cameras, personal digital assistants, cellular telephones, printers, scanners, and certain software applications. The company's patent portfolio includes the combined inventions of Compression Labs, Inc., VTEL Corporation and Forgent Networks, Inc.
About Forgent
Forgent Networks (NasdaqNM:FORG - News) develops and licenses intellectual property and provides scheduling software to a wide variety of customers. Forgent's intellectual property licensing program is related to communication technologies developed from a diverse and growing patent portfolio. Forgent's software division, NetSimplicity, provides a spectrum of scheduling software that enables all sizes of organizations to streamline the scheduling of people, places and things. For additional information, please visit www.forgent.com.
Contact:
Investor contact:
Michael Noonan
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Source: Forgent Networks