SonoSite Inc. Responds to Second GE Corporation Lawsuit in Wisconsin

BOTHELL, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SonoSite, Inc. (Nasdaq:SONO), the world leader and specialist in hand-carried ultrasound at the point-of-care, said today that the General Electric Company (GE) filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin on May 22 seeking to invalidate SonoSite’s US Patent No. 5,722,412, “Hand Held Ultrasonic Diagnostic Instrument” (“the 412 patent”). SonoSite has performed a preliminary assessment of the case and believes GE’s claim is baseless and without merit.

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