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Akamai Wins Permanent Injunction Against Digital Island
In December 2001, a jury found that Digital Island's Footprint service infringed multiple claims of U.S. Patent No. 6,108,703, issued in the name of Akamai founders Tom Leighton and the late Danny Lewin. Judge Rya Zobel will establish the final wording of the injunction to be granted against Digital Island's Footprint service. A trial to determine damages to be paid by Digital Island is expected to take place next year.
In a key companion ruling, the Court also denied Digital Island's post-trial motion that the patent was unenforceable.
"We are extremely pleased with the Court's ruling, which vindicates our patent rights and the value of Akamai's industry-leading technology," said Paul Sagan, president of Akamai. "We believe Digital Island cannot effectively operate its content delivery service without violating these key claims of the patent."
About Akamai
Akamai is a leading provider of secure, 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 12,600 servers within over 1,000 networks in 66 countries. With headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Akamai provides services and industry-renowned customer care to hundreds of enterprises worldwide, including dozens of Fortune 500 businesses. 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, 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, our ability to protect our intellectual property rights and inventions from third party challenges and other factors that are discussed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.
©2002 Akamai Technologies, Inc.
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Digital Island To Be Enjoined By Federal Court
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - July 1, 2002 - Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) today announced that the Federal District Court in Boston has granted Akamai's motion for entry of a permanent injunction against Digital Island, now a part of Exodus, a subsidiary of Cable & Wireless, plc, with respect to Digital Island's Footprint content delivery service.In December 2001, a jury found that Digital Island's Footprint service infringed multiple claims of U.S. Patent No. 6,108,703, issued in the name of Akamai founders Tom Leighton and the late Danny Lewin. Judge Rya Zobel will establish the final wording of the injunction to be granted against Digital Island's Footprint service. A trial to determine damages to be paid by Digital Island is expected to take place next year.
In a key companion ruling, the Court also denied Digital Island's post-trial motion that the patent was unenforceable.
"We are extremely pleased with the Court's ruling, which vindicates our patent rights and the value of Akamai's industry-leading technology," said Paul Sagan, president of Akamai. "We believe Digital Island cannot effectively operate its content delivery service without violating these key claims of the patent."
About Akamai
Akamai is a leading provider of secure, 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 12,600 servers within over 1,000 networks in 66 countries. With headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Akamai provides services and industry-renowned customer care to hundreds of enterprises worldwide, including dozens of Fortune 500 businesses. 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, 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, our ability to protect our intellectual property rights and inventions from third party challenges and other factors that are discussed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.
©2002 Akamai Technologies, Inc.
