U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Grants Faro's Second Request for Reexamination of Romer Cimcore Patent.

PR Newswire Europe, January, 2006

LAKE MARY, Florida, January 13 /PRNewswire/ --

- As previously announced on November 29, 2005.

Faro Technologies, Inc. (Faro) announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) granted Faro's Second Request for Reexamination of Romer Cimcore Patent No. 5,829,148 ('148 patent). In granting Faro's request, the PTO stated that Faro had raised "substantial new questions of patentability," affecting all of claims 1-17 in the '148 patent. Faro's second request was based on new "prior art" (that is, earlier issued patent publications) submitted to the PTO which Faro believes will ultimately invalidate the '148 patent.

The grant of this second reexamination request follows the earlier grant on September 9, 2004 of a first...

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