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Technology & Science

Feb. 3, 2007

Jury Awards Tech Firm $75 Million

SAN JOSE - A federal jury has awarded a Fremont-based technology company $74.7 million in damages after concluding that a competitor infringed its patent on an electronic system that eliminates mistakes in the manufacturing of semiconductor chips.

By Craig Anderson
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      SAN JOSE - A federal jury has awarded a Fremont-based technology company $74.7 million in damages after concluding that a competitor infringed its patent on an electronic system that eliminates mistakes in the manufacturing of semiconductor chips.
      The award to Asyst Technologies Inc. on Wednesday is based on a patent the company said "revoluti...

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