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GPC Represented Trounson Automation in this Transaction
June 8, 2006 - General Patent Corporation International
(GPCI), a leading IP licensing and enforcement firm
headquartered in Suffern, New York, announced today
that it has settled on behalf of its client, Trounson
Automation LLC (Trounson), a patent infringement lawsuit
against Yaskawa Electric Corporation of Japan and Yaskawa
Electric America of Illinois (Yaskawa). GPCI represents
Trounson in the licensing and enforcement of its patent.
GPCI brought suit against Yaskawa on behalf of Trounson
in August of 2005, in the U.S. District Court for the
Eastern District of Texas. The parties ultimately agreed
to amicably settle the dispute.
US Patent No. 5,926,389, "Computer Control System
for Generating Geometric Designs", the patent-in-suit,
covers a machine tool servo control system requiring
only a single active processor.
"We are happy to have reached an amicable settlement
for our client," said Paul Lerner, GPCI's Sr. Vice
President and General Counsel, "and we thank Blair
Jacobs, Bob Gutkin and Rob Walters at Sutherland Asbill
& Brennan for vigorously prosecuting this case in
court."
"I am very pleased with the results of this law
suit," said James Trounson, the inventor of the
patent-in-suit. "I look forward to working with
General Patent in the future to license the technology
we developed throughout the industry."
About Trounson Automation LLC
Trounson Automation LLC is the owner of United States
Patent No. 5,926,389, "Computer Control System
for Generating Geometric Designs". Trounson is
a portfolio company of IP
Holdings LLC.
General Patent Corporation International
General Patent Corporation International (GPCI) is a
premier IP licensing and enforcement firm headquartered
in Suffern, NY. GPCI represents clients in IP enforcement
matters and licensing transactions on a contingency
basis. GPCI is the oldest contingency IP enforcement
organization in the US. For more information visit www.gpci.com.
General Patent Corporation (GPC), an affiliate of GPCI,
is a leading intellectual property management firm.
GPC provides IP analysis and strategy, IP audit and
valuation, IP portfolio mining and management, and technology
transfer services to domestic and foreign businesses,
universities, research institutions and individual inventors.
For more information visit www.generalpatent.com.
IP Holdings LLC, another affiliate of GPCI, is an idea
incubator and an IP-centric merchant banking organization.
For more information on IP Holdings visit www.ip-holdings.com.
For further information on Trounson Automation, GPC,
GPCI and IP Holdings contact General Patent Corporation
International, Montebello Park, 75 Montebello Road,
Suffern, NY 10901-3740; telephone: (845) 368-4000 x107;
e-mail: info@gpci.com.
Company Website: http://www.patentclaim.com
For More Information Contact:
Kathlene Ingham
Director of Licensing
email: kingham @ gpci.com
voice: 845.368.4000 x107
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