Reference is made to JF TECH’s announcements on 7 March 2018, 23 January 2018, 9 January 2018, 11 September 2017, 6 September 2017, 3 July 2017, 28 September 2016, 12 August 2016, 21 April 2015, 7 August 2014 and 27 June 2014  in relation to a Complaint for Patent Infringement filed by JTI in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California (“the Court”) against the Defendant for the infringement of United States Patent No. 7,059,866 entitled "Integrated Circuit Test Contact to Test Apparatus".

The Board wishes to inform that the motion was heard on 26 April 2018, and on 19 June 2018 the motion was dismissed by the Court, and the jury verdict finding infringement against the Defendant is sustained. In its judgement on 19 June 2018, the Court also made an order permanently enjoining the Defendant from infringing or  inducing the infringement of the United States Patent No. 7,059,866, (“US ’866 Patent”) until the expiration of the patent, by:

1.Making, using, offering to sell or importing into the United States any product that infringes claims 1-4 of the US ‘ Patent, including the Zigma product, and those no more colorably different from the Zigma product (“Enjoined Products”);

2.Assisting others in advertising, marketing, promoting, licensing, designing, making, using, offering to sell, importing into the United States, any Enjoined Products.

In its order, the Court also retains its jurisdiction to enforce, modify, extend or dissolve this injunction and to decide all disputes about whether a specific product or feature is more than colorably different from the Zigma product. At the present time, no decision has been made on JTI’s motion for enhanced damages yet.

The Defendant has given instructions to its US counsel to appeal against the judgment of the Court and, if necessary,  to apply for a stay of enforcement of the judgment.

The Board will make further announcement if there is any material update on the aforesaid case.

This announcement is dated  20 June 2018.