Article: Cognex Sues the Lemelson Foundation; Lawsuit Seeks Declaration of Invalidity and Non-Infringement of Machine Vision Patents.

NATICK, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 14, 1998--Cognex Corporation (NASDAQ:CGNX), the world's leading supplier of machine vision systems, announced today that it has served a complaint against the Lemelson Medical, Education & Research Foundation, Limited Partnership. The complaint was filed in the United States District Court in Massachusetts.

Cognex is seeking a declaration that various patents which are claimed to cover "machine vision" and which were assigned to the Lemelson Foundation by the late Jerome H. Lemelson, are invalid, are unenforceable, and are not infringed by either Cognex or by any users of Cognex products. In addition, Cognex is seeking ...

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