BILLERICA, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--E Ink Corporation (E Ink), the leading innovator of electronic ink technology, today announced that the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled in E Ink’s favor regarding an intellectual property lawsuit brought by Research Frontiers Incorporated (RFI) against E Ink in 2013. The Federal Circuit’s order affirmed an earlier District Court judgment of no patent infringement by E Ink.
E Ink is very pleased with the Court’s ruling. “E Ink has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to develop a proprietary and unique EPD [electrophoretic display] electronic paper display that is the key component in almost every electronic reader and many other products today. It is fundamentally different from the SPD technology developed by RFI that is used in a small number of niche applications. We are gratified by such a strong statement by the Federal Circuit in favor of E Ink and its customers, confirming that the RFI patents in question are not relevant to E Ink displays and the products that depend on them,” said Michael McCreary, E Ink’s Chief Technology Officer.
RFI had sued E Ink and several of its customers in 2013 for infringement of three of RFI’s suspended particle device (SPD) patents, but stayed its case against E Ink’s customers pending a ruling against E Ink. The judgment of non-infringement also extends to these defendants. “E Ink is extremely satisfied that its actions in defending its intellectual property ultimately protected its customers,” stated Paul Apen, E Ink’s Chief Strategy Officer.
E Ink is the recognized leader and innovator in electronic ink technology, with over 600 U.S. patents, and 1,374 worldwide patents. E Ink continues to aggressively fund and place corporate priority on innovation, invention, and the defense of its extensive intellectual property holdings.
About E Ink
E Ink Corporation was spun out from MIT’s Media
Lab in 1997 to commercialize electronic ink and electronic paper display
(EPD) technology. In 2009, E Ink Corporation was purchased by Prime View
International (PVI), a leading small and medium sized TFT-LCD and EPD
provider. PVI was later renamed E Ink Holdings, Inc.
E Ink Holdings Inc. (8069.TWO) is now the world's largest supplier of EPD displays to the eReader market. It has transformed and defined the eReader market and is redefining the signage, architecture and design, mobile, wearable and retail markets with its ePaper technology, enabling a new multi-billion dollar market in less than 10 years. Its corporate philosophy aims to deliver revolutionary products, user experiences, and environmental benefits through advanced technology development. This vision has led to its continuous investments in the field of ePaper displays as well as expanding the use of its technologies into a number of other markets and applications, including smart packaging and fashion. Its EPD products make it the worldwide leader for ePaper. Its Fringe Field Switching (FFS) technologies are a standard for high-end LCD displays and have been licensed to all major liquid crystal display makers in the world. E Ink Holdings is listed in Taiwan's Taipei Exchange (TPEx) and the Luxembourg market. For more information please visit www.eink.com.
