Article: VENTANA MEDICAL SYSTEMS FILES PATENT LITIGATION AGAINST VISION.

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TUCSON, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 19, 2006--Ventana Medical Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: VMSI) today announced that it commenced patent litigation to protect its intellectual property against Vision BioSystems Inc., a subsidiary of Vision Systems Limited (ASX: VSL).

The suit was filed in United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts on September 18, 2006.

In its Complaint, Ventana alleges that Vision's Bond(TM) X and maX OCR instruments infringe its U.S. Patent No. 6,594,537 for schedule optimization, or more specifically, scheduling algorithms which enable optimal sequencing of ...

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