SonoSite (SONO) and General Electric (GE) Resolve Patent Litigation; GE to Pay Sono $21M and Royalties for '412 Patent License
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SonoSite, Inc. (NASDAQ: SONO) announced today that the company has resolved all pending patent litigation with General Electric Company (NYSE: GE). This includes the lawsuit filed by GE in 2008 in the federal district court in Madison, Wisconsin (case no. 08-cv-298-bbc) to invalidate SonoSite's US Patent No. 5,722,412 (the '412" patent") and a pending appeals in the Federal Circuit (case nos. 2008-1567, 2008-1568) of certain rulings in a patent infringement case filed by GE in the same Wisconsin court in 2007. The settlement also resolves a revocation action filed by GE in the Federal Patent Court in Germany relating to the '412 patent.
Under the terms of the settlement agreement, GE will make an up front payment to SonoSite of $21 million and pay an ongoing royalty on US sales and production of hand-carried ultrasound systems weighing less than ten pounds in exchange for a perpetual nontransferable worldwide license to the '412 patent family. SonoSite will receive these royalties until the '412 patent expires in 2016. The terms of the settlement provides for the dismissal of all pending legal actions between SonoSite and GE as well as a cross-license to the other party's patents asserted in the lawsuits. The settlement agreement also includes a dispute resolution process, designed to avoid future litigation between the parties.
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