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News Armour Succeeds in Revocation of ‘A-Bus" Patent inEurope (25/2/2010) Armour Group Plc ("Armour") is pleased to announce thatit has succeeded with its revocation proceedings at the EuropeanPatent Office ("EPO") with respect to the A-Bus patentowned by Leisuretech Electronics Pty Ltd ("LTE"). TheOpposition Division of the EPO revoked the A-Bus European patent ata hearing on 10th February 2010. This successful revocation action comes after the UK High Courtrevoked the A-Bus patent in the UK on 14th November 2008 followinga similar action brought by Armour under UK patent law. Armour has been in dispute with LTE, an Australian company, for anumber of years over the validity of the A-Bus patent. The disputerelated to a patent owned by LTE, which specified a particularmethod of sending DC power and stereo audio signals down a singleCAT-5 cable in the context of a multi-room system. Armour"s Systemline brand has been using a similar method ofpower and audio transmission over CAT-5 for its Systemline Modularsystem since the outset, albeit with significant enhancements inthe form of balanced line audio and a special DC-to-DC conversioncircuit, which guarantees greater energy efficiency and consistencyof performance. Armour has always taken the view that LTE"s A-Bus patent asfiled, lacked substance and was indeed an obvious solution usingstandard audio integrated circuits and industry standard CAT-5cable, for which nobody in Armour"s view could claim amonopoly. These two judgements revoking LTE"s A-Bus patent in the UKand Europe completely vindicates the position that Armour has takenon the matter. On learning of the judgement, George Dexter, Armour"s ChiefExecutive commented: "When we won the revocation dispute inthe UK in November 2008, I stated that I was confident of theoutcome at the EPO and so this confidence has been proved wellfounded. Nevertheless, this is a very pleasing result and furtherre-enforces our view that the A-Bus solution was and is obvious andtherefore should not be subject to patent protection. These twojudgements must raise serious questions with regard to the validityof the patent in other territories where it still remains in force. Armour has always acted honourably and with honesty in this matter.We have made every effort to resolve this dispute through aconstructive dialogue with LTE, but sadly to no avail. Consequentlythe matter had to be determined by the Courts, which in both casesfound in our favour." www.armourgroup.uk.com Visit our featured links Visit our sponsors and showcases. I am an expert from medical-hospitalbeds.com, while we provides the quality product, such as Hospital Baby Beds , China Hospital Privacy Screens, Medical Hospital Beds,and more.
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