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05/02/2009

L-3 drops lawsuit against ICOP Digital Inc.

Lenexa, KS (USA)

ICOP Digital, Inc., a company engaged in advancing digital surveillance solutions, announces that L-3 Communications Mobile-Vision (LLC) has moved to withdraw its complaint filed with the International Trade Commission (ITC) pertaining to allegations that ICOP's current products infringe Mobile-Vision's patent (U. S. Patent No. 7,119,832). Robert K. Rogers, Jr., administrative law judge for the ITC, issued his order on January 29, 2009, ordering that the case be abandoned.

James J. Kernell of the law firm Erickson, Kernell, Derusseau & Kleypas, LLC, attorney for ICOP stated, "In the nearly seven months since the ITC investigation was commenced, Mobile-Vision failed to produce a single piece of evidence or a single document to support its infringement allegations. Mobile-Vision failed to provide any expert opinion regarding infringement and failed to rebut ICOP's expert, raising serious invalidity questions. Further, Mobile-Vision refused to produce any witnesses to testify on its behalf. When faced with the certainty of a ruling of non-infringement and likely invalidity, Mobile-Vision moved to withdraw its complaint at the ITC."

L-3 Communications Mobile-Vision has stated that it intends to continue its allegations in the New Jersey District court where it faces counterclaims by ICOP of non-infringement, invalidity of its patent, unfair competition, patent misuse and antitrust violations. Laura Owen, president and COO of ICOP, stated, "ICOP does not infringe L-3 Communications Mobile-Vision's wireless microphone patent. This case can only be described as an industry Goliath abusing the judicial process in an attempt to crush a small company."
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