FormFactor, Inc. (NASDAQ: FORM) announced today the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) assigned to the International Trade Commission's (Commission) investigation of probecard manufacturers Phicom Corporation and Micronics Japan Company, Ltd., Investigation No. 337-TA-621, issued an Initial Determination declining to find a violation of Section 337.
The Initial Determination is directed to four FormFactor patents: U.S. Patent Nos. 5,994,152, entitled "Fabricating Interconnects and Tips Using Sacrificial Substrates," 6,509,751, entitled "Planarizer for a Semiconductor Contactor," 6,615,485, entitled "Probe Card Assembly and Kit, And Methods of Making Same," and 7,225,538, entitled "Resilient Contact Structures Formed and Then Attached to a Substrate." The Initial
The Initial Determination is directed to four FormFactor patents: U.S. Patent Nos. 5,994,152, entitled "Fabricating Interconnects and Tips Using Sacrificial Substrates," 6,509,751, entitled "Planarizer for a Semiconductor Contactor," 6,615,485, entitled "Probe Card Assembly and Kit, And Methods of Making Same," and 7,225,538, entitled "Resilient Contact Structures Formed and Then Attached to a Substrate." The Initial
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