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To: marquis103 who wrote (2164)	7/11/1999 10:15:00 AM
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Friday July 9, 4:00 pm Eastern Time Company Press Release Silicon Valley Group Files Suit to Protect Its Investment and Intellectual Property SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 9, 1999--Silicon Valley Group (Nasdaq:SVGI - news) has filed a complaint for copyright infringement to protect its investment and intellectual property from third party vendors who may have duplicated or modified SVG software. The complaint was filed in the United States District Court of Northern California on July 8, 1999, against AIO Corporation, C&D Semiconductor Services Inc., Rite-Track Equipment Services Inc., Semi Pro Microservice Inc., Site Services Inc. and Teleparts International Inc. The complaint alleges that the named defendants have infringed the copyrights owned by SVG in software resident on its 8X series equipment by duplicating or modifying that software in the refurbishment and sale of replacement boards. The complaint further asks for a preliminary and permanent injunction against the plaintiffs' further infringement of SVG's copyrights and sale of infringing systems and boards, and for an award of damages in an amount to be proved at trial