INDUSTRY NEWS: Cognex Wins Patent Case.
Publication Date: 01-FEB-04
Publication Title: NDT Update
Format: Online

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Cognex Corp. announced that Chief Judge Philip Pro of the U.S. District Court in Las Vegas has ruled in favor of Cognex in its lawsuit against the Lemelson Medical, Education & Research Foundation, Limited Partnership. Judge Pro held that the claims of 14 patents asserted by the Lemelson Partnership are invalid and unenforceable, and not infringed by Cognex.

Cognex filed suit against the Lemelson Partnership in September 1998, seeking a declaration that certain patents issued to Lemelson that purportedly cover machine vision are invalid, unenforceable, and not infringed by either Cognex or users of Cognex products. In 2000, the Court combined...



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