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Trial Set for November 19th
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - November 9, 2001 - Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leading provider of outsourced e-business infrastructure services and software, today announced that the Federal District Court in Boston has issued an important ruling interpreting the Internet content delivery services patents in dispute in an impending trial against Digital Island, Inc., a subsidiary of Cable and Wireless plc. Akamai is claiming that Digital Island is infringing two Akamai patents, and Akamai is asking the Court to permanently enjoin Digital Island from offering its content delivery services."We believe the Court's ruling will allow us to demonstrate that all versions of Digital Island's competing content delivery services are within the scope of the patents that protect Akamai's intellectual property," said Kathryn Meyer, Akamai's General Counsel. "In effect, the ruling undermines Digital Island's argument that Digital Island invented the innovations covered by Akamai's patents."
The ruling also interpreted a Digital Island patent that will be heard during the trial. "Based upon the Court's ruling," Meyer said, "we are confident a jury will find that we do not infringe Digital Island's patent or that the patent is invalid."
About Akamai Akamai is the leading provider of outsourced e-business infrastructure services and software. These services and software enable companies to reduce the complexity and cost of deploying and operating a uniform Web infrastructure while ensuring unmatched performance, reliability, scalability and manageability. Akamai's services give businesses a distinct competitive advantage and provide an unparalleled Internet experience for their customers. Akamai's intelligent edge platform for content, streaming media, and application delivery comprises more than 13,000 servers within over 1,000 networks in 63 countries. With headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Akamai provides services to companies worldwide. For information on Delivering a Better InternetSM, visit www.akamai.com.
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, general economic conditions, any material, unexpected increases in Akamai's use of funds, the dependence on Akamai's Internet content delivery service and technology products, lack of market acceptance of new services, a failure by us to successfully enter into any license, technology development or other technology partnership agreement within the time periods expected by us or at all, a failure of Akamai's network infrastructure, a failure by Akamai to convince the fact-finders in its Digital Island patent dispute that Akamai’s positions are correct, and other factors that are discussed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.
