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Creo Vows to Fight Lawsuit

VANCOUVER, BC—Creo Inc. pledges to fight a patent infringement lawsuit filed against the company and 43 other defendants by Forgent Networks through its wholly owned subsidiary Compression Labs. The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the eastern district of Texas, Marshall Division, alleges that the sale and use of JPEG technology infringes its patent by complying with the JPEG standard as defined by CCITT Recommendation T.81, titled, "Information Technology—Digital Compression and Coding of Continuous Tone Still Images—Requirements and Guidelines." Creo's stance is that it does not infringe upon the patent, and also feels the patent is invalid and unenforceable.