Prysmian, Emtelle settle patent dispute

摘要

Prysmian Group and its UK Prysmian Cables & Systems Ltd. subsidiary have settlef a patent infringement suit brought against fiber to the premises infrastructure technology provider Emtelle UK Ltd. Prysmian says that Emtelle has admitted that certain of its FiberFlow Minicable products infringed on one or more of the patents at issue.Prysmian brought suit against Emtelle in the High Court of England and Wales last November, charging that Emtelle's FiberFlow Minicables infringed the UK designations of Prysmian's European Patents EP (UK) 1,420,279 B1 and EP (UK) 1,668. The latter patent covers telecommunication optical cables, and in particular to a telecommunication optical cable with a highly reduced diameter. The other patent also relates to telecommunication fiber-optic cables, particularly of what Prysmian described as "an optimized stranded optical cable design."