TORONTO, April 15 /CNW/ - Star wishes to clarify its press release of April 10, 2008 entitled "U.S. District Court declines Aeromechanical request to dismiss infringement lawsuit" and the contradictory information presented by Aeromechanical ("AMS") (TSX: AMA-V) in their April 9, 2008 and April 11, 2008 press releases respectively.
For clarity, the U.S. District Court provided that Star's patent infringement lawsuit against AMS may continue as long as Star files an amendment to the lawsuit by April 30, 2008, joining the patent holders Viraf Kapadia and Hilary Vieira, as named parties.
Star is taking the necessary steps in this regard, and Star does not need the consent of Messrs. Kapadia and Vieira in order to proceed in this regard.
Furthermore, contrary to the information released by AMS, Mr. Vieira had previously consented to Star's action against AMS and Star has evidence of such consent.
Star fully expects its patent infringement lawsuit against AMS to continue and is committed to seeing it through to its logical conclusion. While there are complex issues of law at hand in this matter, Star intends to respond to every AMS attempt to delay or prevent a hearing on the merits and will continue to pursue its legal rights and remedies to the full extent of the law.
Star's Chief Executive Officer, Viraf Kapadia says "I hope that all parties will refrain from inflammatory public statements in the future and avoid trying to litigate this matter in the court of public opinion. The investing public deserves better."
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