SonoSite Inc. Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit against General Electric Company

BOTHELL, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SonoSite, Inc. (Nasdaq:SONO), the world leader in hand-carried ultrasound, announced it is filing today a patent infringement lawsuit against General Electric Company (GE) and certain of its affiliates in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. The complaint is filed as a counterclaim to the complaint GE and its affiliates filed against SonoSite on May 15, 2007 in the same court. In parallel, SonoSite is filing its answer to the complaint denying all of GE’s claims and alleging that the asserted patents are either invalid, not infringed, or both.

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