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Vision Suit Continues
Jun 1, 2000 — US District Court Judge Philip Pro in Reno, Nev., denied three motions of the Lemelson Medical, Education and Research Foundation LP related to a lawsuit filed against it in September 1998 by Cognex Corp. of Natick, Mass. Cognex seeks to have the foundation’s patents on machine vision technologies declared invalid and unenforceable. Judge Pro rejected Lemelson’s motions to dismiss the suit; to postpone the case pending the outcome of its two suits against Intel Corp., Lucent...
Applied Laser Research Contest Opens
May 1, 2000 — The nonprofit foundation Berthold Leibinger Stiftung GmbH of Ditzingen, Germany, has opened the competition for its international Berthold Leibinger Innovationspreis for outstanding research in applied laser physics in production technology. The...
Channel Link RS-644 Advances as Standard
May 1, 2000 — Fourteen machine vision manufacturers met in Rosemont, Ill., to create a camera-to-frame-grabber cable and connector standard. The meeting, which was hosted by Pulnix America Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., focused on the adoption of Santa Clara,...
Class-Action Suit Filed Against Flir
May 1, 2000 — Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach LLP of San Diego has filed a class-action suit against Flir Systems Inc. of Portland, Ore., on behalf of purchasers of Flir common stock between Feb. 8 and March 3, 2000. The claim alleges that Flir...
Forensics Professionals Dying for Hyperspectral Imaging
WASHINGTON -- WASHINGTON -- A new market may be emerging for photonics: Forensics. Congress is considering a bill to spend $768 million over the next five years to upgrade the nation’s forensics facilities; California supporters introduced their own...
High Technology Goes on the Block
HOUSTON -- HOUSTON -- Many auction houses feature art, antiques and collectibles. With the offering of rights to a chip-based vision system, however, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP hopes to put high-tech intellectual properties on the block. "We are positioning...
Intel Takes Equity Stake in Optoelectronics
HILLSBORO, Ore. -- HILLSBORO, Ore. -- Giant microprocessor manufacturer Intel Corp. has quietly been acquiring equity in optoelectronics companies -- both public and private -- and plans to own a portion of 30 companies by year-end. Through its venture capital arm,...
Lord of the Photon Spins a Light Verse
BALTIMORE -- BALTIMORE -- Kevin Kalkhoven has had a good year, so it is understandable that he was feeling rather buoyant when he addressed the exclusive dinner concluding the executive forum of the 25th annual Optical Fiber Communication Conference. He was...
Nortel Announces Deal to Purchase CoreTek
May 1, 2000 — Nortel Networks Corp. of Brampton, Ontario, Canada, has agreed to acquire CoreTek Inc. of Wilmington, Mass., in a stock swap valued at $1.43 billion. The deal, which is expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2000, is subject to...
OFC Advances at Light Speed
BALTIMORE -- BALTIMORE -- What do you say about the 2000 Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) when the fire alarm sounds and the attendees have to be badgered to exit the building? A record 17,000-plus attendance of exhibitors and engineers and the...
Premier Laser Accused of Patent Infringement
May 1, 2000 — BioLase Technology Inc. of San Clemente, Calif., announced that it has filed suit against troubled Premier Laser Systems Inc. of Irvine, Calif. BioLase charges that Premier’s products that use lasers with water for dental applications infringe...
California Businessman Indicted on Smuggling Charge
LOS ANGELES -- LOS ANGELES -- Jeffrey Jhyfang Lo, owner of East Technoservice Co. in Cypress, faces up to 10 years in federal prison for allegedly attempting to smuggle a defense-grade camera to the People’s Republic of China. Lo also has been charged with a...
Corning Strengthens Role in Filter Market
CORNING, N.Y. -- CORNING, N.Y. -- When potential competitors, suppliers and customers are one and the same, preparation for contingency is the key to success. In the synergistic world of telecommunications typified by last year’s merger of JDS Fitel Inc. of...
Laser Power Sells Research Operation and Microlaser Business
Apr 1, 2000 — Laser Power Corp. of San Diego has announced that it has completed the sale of the assets of its contract research operation to Orlando, Fla.-based Schwartz Electro-Optics Inc. The operation was responsible for developing the company’s...
Machine Vision Systems Detect Demand
ORLANDO, Fla. -- ORLANDO, Fla. -- Machine vision sales have risen steadily since 1992 because of significant price erosion, industry analysts report. Suppliers attribute the increases mostly to strong demand from semiconductor and electronics manufacturers, said...
Micronic Charges Etec with Unfair Competition
Apr 1, 2000 — Micronic Laser Systems AB of Täby, Sweden, has filed a complaint in US District Court in San Jose, Calif., claiming that Etec Systems Inc. of Hayward, Calif., has falsely accused Micronic of patent infringement. The Swedish company, which says...
NEC and Mitsubishi Develop Display Monitor Business
Apr 1, 2000 — NEC Corp. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. of Tokyo have established a joint venture company for the display monitor market, to be known as NEC-Mitsubishi Electric Visual Systems Corp., also based in Tokyo. The company, which will begin operations in...
Photonics Lures Venture Capital
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- SAN JOSE, Calif. -- The good news from the PricewaterhouseCoopers Money Tree Survey: Photonics companies attracted more than $816 million in venture capital in the last quarter of 1999. The bad news: Those pesky "dot coms" snatched up $3.5...
Plan Issued for Growth in Solar Power
Apr 1, 2000 — A report from the National Center for Photovoltaics predicts that solar energy will satisfy at least 15 percent of the additional energy demand in the US by 2020. The report advises photovoltaics manufacturers and suppliers to give priority to...
Premier Laser Announces Layoffs
Apr 1, 2000 — Irvine, Calif.-based Premier Laser Systems Inc. has furloughed two-thirds of its work force to address short-term liquidity problems. The company has placed 54 of its 80 employees on temporary unpaid leave. Premier manufactures lasers and fiber...
’31 Whiskey’ Means Civilian Jobs
NEW YORK -- NEW YORK -- Ask any photonics CEO, and he or she will tell you that good managers, engineers and technicians are in strong demand in today’s hot high-tech job market. And just where do you look for an experienced "31 Whiskey"? In...
Corning Will Produce Window on the World
Mar 1, 2000 — Corning Inc. of Corning, N.Y., the sole provider of windows for the US portion of the International Space Station, will supply a 21-in.-diameter window for the US laboratory module Destiny. The window will enable global monitoring projects under...
Full-Field Exposure System Ordered for R&D
Mar 1, 2000 — Austin, Texas-based International Sematech, a nonprofit R&D consortium of 13 semiconductor manufacturers, announced that it has ordered a 193-nm full-field exposure system from Silicon Valley Group Lithography Systems of Wilton, Conn. The ArF...
Kodak Selling Image Sensors as Components
ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Eastman Kodak Co. is now selling its Blue Plus Color charge-coupled device (CCD) image sensors to manufacturers of digital cameras and other imaging devices. According to Kodak, the decision to sell these devices as individual...
Light Shines on Global Plankton Research
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -- SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -- Despite a disconcerting setback, scientists are still working to compile global maps of plankton that glow in the dark. Four Ukrainian marine biologists, free-lancing for the US Navy, were accused by Ukraine police last fall...

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