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To: John Slampyak who wrote (13207)	6/11/1999 12:52:00 PM
From: benwood	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

3dfx Files Suit Against Creative Labs and Creative Technology For Copyright Infringement and Breach of Contract Company Claims Creative's Unified Technology Uses 3dfx Glide Source Code SAN JOSE, Calif., June 11 /PRNewswire/ -- 3dfx Interactive® Inc. (Nasdaq: TDFX - news) today announced that it has filed suit against Creative Labs, Inc. and Creative Technology, Ltd. (Nasdaq: CREAF - news) in the Federal Court for the Northern District of California. The suit asserts claims for copyright infringement and breach of contract. 3dfx claims that Creative breached a licensing agreement and infringed 3dfx copyrights by incorporating 3dfx Glide® source code into Unified, its recently announced technology designed to run ''Glide-only' software titles on Creative TNT and TNT2-based graphics accelerator products. The license agreement prohibits the use and modification of any 3dfx source code to operate with non-3dfx acceleration technology. 3dfx also asserted a claim against Creative Technology for unpaid amounts owed for 3dfx products. The Glide API was developed by 3dfx Interactive to provide a simple and fast method for developers to write 3D game titles and software specifically to run on 3dfx accelerators. Currently, nearly 200 popular software titles have been written for the Glide API, with nearly 100 more in development. etc.