NORTH KINGSTOWN – A federal court jury in San Diego has upheld the validity of a patent held by Hexagon Metrology’s ROMER Inc., in a dispute with FARO Technologies, but the question of whether infringement occurred remains unsettled.
In ROMER Inc. vs. FARO Technologies Inc., pertaining to U.S. Patent No. 5,829,148, the federal jury found unanimously in favor of ROMER, saying its patent is valid.
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The jury was unable, however, to reach a unanimous decision on the question of patent infringement, so the judge has ordered a new, shortened trial – with a new jury – to decide that issue. The new trial is set to begin April 3.
The patent dispute involves a key feature of articulated arm coordinate-measurement machines: the ability to rotate a swivel axis indefinitely without encountering a hard stop.
“As the world leader in multidimensional measurement, Hexagon has an R&D budget close to 10 percent of sales and a portfolio of more than 1,500 active patents,” Ola Rollén, CEO and president of Hexagon AB, said in a statement today. “We take patent infringement very seriously and have a principle to enforce our rights.”
ROMER and its subsidiary, CimCore Corp., design and manufacture portable coordinate measurement machines. ROMER Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hexagon AB, a global technology group with strong market positions in measurement technologies, polymers and key components.
Hexagon Metrology – the parent of Brown & Sharpe, ROMER, Leica Geosystems, Sheffield, Leitz, TESA and other brands – is a subsidiary of Hexagon Measurement Technologies, a business unit of Hexagon AB (Stockholmsborsen: HEXA B), a global technology group focusing on measurement technologies, polymers and key components. The group has nearly 7,800 employees in 30 countries. For further information, visit www.hexagonmetrology.us
