Court Rules Synergetics Infringes IRIDEX Patent

IRIDEX Corporation (NASDAQ:IRIX) announced that the Hon. Catherine Perry, United States District Judge, granted summary judgment to IRIDEX on its claim that Synergetics, Inc.'s adapter-based connector systems infringe 12 separate claims of IRIDEX's Patent No. 5,085,492. The suit, Case Number 05-CV-1916 CDP, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, was filed on October 19, 2005 and is scheduled for a jury trial on April 16, 2007. At that trial, the jury will be asked to award damages and decide whether Synergetics' infringement was willful, so that damages can be increased.

"We have been confident that the Synergetics product infringed...

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