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Akamai Files Patent Infringement Suit Against Digital Island
Cambridge, MA, September 18, 2000 - Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the foremost provider of global, high performance services for the delivery of Internet content, streaming media, and applications, announced today that it has filed a patent infringement suit against Digital Island, Inc. The suit involves U.S. Patent No. 6,108,703, entitled "Global Hosting System," which issued from the United States Patent & Trademark Office on August 22, 2000.
The '703 patent covers certain innovative aspects of Akamai's FreeFlow content delivery service. The suit claims that a current version of Digital Island's competing content delivery service, called Footprint, infringes the '703 patent. The version of Footprint that is alleged to infringe the '703 patent was introduced by Digital Island following Akamai's successful introduction of its FreeFlow service. The suit, which was filed in United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, seeks damages and equitable relief.
Akamai Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
The release contains information about future expectations, plans and prospects of Akamai's management that constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors including, but not limited to, a challenge, invalidation or circumvention of any of Akamai's patent rights, the dependence on Akamai's Internet content delivery service, a failure of its network infrastructure, the complexity of its service and the networks on which the service is deployed, the failure to obtain access to transmission capacity and other factors that are discussed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.
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| Jeff Young Akamai Technologies 617-250-3913 jyoung@akamai.com |
--or-- | Steven J. Wolfe Akamai Technologies 617-250-4724 swolfe@akamai.com |
Cambridge, MA, September 18, 2000 - Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the foremost provider of global, high performance services for the delivery of Internet content, streaming media, and applications, announced today that it has filed a patent infringement suit against Digital Island, Inc. The suit involves U.S. Patent No. 6,108,703, entitled "Global Hosting System," which issued from the United States Patent & Trademark Office on August 22, 2000.
The '703 patent covers certain innovative aspects of Akamai's FreeFlow content delivery service. The suit claims that a current version of Digital Island's competing content delivery service, called Footprint, infringes the '703 patent. The version of Footprint that is alleged to infringe the '703 patent was introduced by Digital Island following Akamai's successful introduction of its FreeFlow service. The suit, which was filed in United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, seeks damages and equitable relief.
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Akamai Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
The release contains information about future expectations, plans and prospects of Akamai's management that constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors including, but not limited to, a challenge, invalidation or circumvention of any of Akamai's patent rights, the dependence on Akamai's Internet content delivery service, a failure of its network infrastructure, the complexity of its service and the networks on which the service is deployed, the failure to obtain access to transmission capacity and other factors that are discussed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.
