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Akamai's Patent Claims Against Digital Island Take Major Step Forward
Last September, Akamai filed an infringement action in Federal District Court in Boston seeking damages and injunctive relief against Digital Island. During a hearing last week, the District Court set a trial date for September, less than one year after the case was originally filed. Akamai's request for a preliminary injunction prior to that trial remains pending.
"We are very gratified that the District Court set an accelerated trial schedule in this case and will address the merits of Akamai's claims soon," said Kathryn Meyer, Akamai's General Counsel. "Typically, patent cases do not get to trial in less than three years, if not longer, so we are pleased that the Court has recognized the importance of having these issues resolved quickly. Digital Island claims to have invented this technology first, but that assertion is incorrect and it was made in reaction to Akamai's original filing," Meyer explained.
At the hearing, Digital Island informed the Court it would abandon its attempt to try in California an unrelated claim that Akamai is infringing a separate Digital Island patent. The California action was filed by Digital Island also in response to Akamai's earlier filed case. The Digital Island patent relates to a minor feature of the Footprint system that Akamai does not use. Digital Island's claims with respect to that patent will be resolved in Boston. Meyer added that "we remain confident that a full trial will expose all of Digital Island's claims to be without merit."
About Akamai
Akamai is the leading Content Delivery Service Provider, serving 3,600 customers worldwide. Akamai has the broadest deployment of servers for content, streaming media, and applications delivery with more than 8,000 servers in 55 countries directly connected within 473 different telecommunications networks.
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, the dependence on Akamai's Internet content delivery service, a failure of its network infrastructure, changes in general economic conditions, failure of a significant number of customers to pay their obligations, any inability to secure vendor financing, unexpected increases in expenses, 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.
Copyright ©2001 Akamai Technologies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Akamai, FreeFlow, Delivering a Better Internet, EdgeAdvantage, and the blue multi-wave logo are all trademarks or registered trademarks of Akamai Technologies. All other company and product names referenced herein are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
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District Court Sets Early Trial Date For Akamai's Claims Against Digital Island
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - February 21, 2001 - Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leading Content Delivery Service Provider (CDSP), today confirmed that its request to permanently enjoin Digital Island from offering its Footprint content delivery service will be heard in September in a full trial on the merits.Last September, Akamai filed an infringement action in Federal District Court in Boston seeking damages and injunctive relief against Digital Island. During a hearing last week, the District Court set a trial date for September, less than one year after the case was originally filed. Akamai's request for a preliminary injunction prior to that trial remains pending.
"We are very gratified that the District Court set an accelerated trial schedule in this case and will address the merits of Akamai's claims soon," said Kathryn Meyer, Akamai's General Counsel. "Typically, patent cases do not get to trial in less than three years, if not longer, so we are pleased that the Court has recognized the importance of having these issues resolved quickly. Digital Island claims to have invented this technology first, but that assertion is incorrect and it was made in reaction to Akamai's original filing," Meyer explained.
At the hearing, Digital Island informed the Court it would abandon its attempt to try in California an unrelated claim that Akamai is infringing a separate Digital Island patent. The California action was filed by Digital Island also in response to Akamai's earlier filed case. The Digital Island patent relates to a minor feature of the Footprint system that Akamai does not use. Digital Island's claims with respect to that patent will be resolved in Boston. Meyer added that "we remain confident that a full trial will expose all of Digital Island's claims to be without merit."
About Akamai
Akamai is the leading Content Delivery Service Provider, serving 3,600 customers worldwide. Akamai has the broadest deployment of servers for content, streaming media, and applications delivery with more than 8,000 servers in 55 countries directly connected within 473 different telecommunications networks.
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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, the dependence on Akamai's Internet content delivery service, a failure of its network infrastructure, changes in general economic conditions, failure of a significant number of customers to pay their obligations, any inability to secure vendor financing, unexpected increases in expenses, 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.
Copyright ©2001 Akamai Technologies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Akamai, FreeFlow, Delivering a Better Internet, EdgeAdvantage, and the blue multi-wave logo are all trademarks or registered trademarks of Akamai Technologies. All other company and product names referenced herein are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
