From www.boston.com, (also reported on Yahoo,) comes news that Cognex is suing MVTec for patent infringement. Specifically, they allege that Halcon “infringes the claims of at least seven Cognex patents.” (Click here to read more.)
Interesting how this comes just days after the MVTec webcast that discussed in some detail the strengths of the Halcon product. Maybe the folks in Natick were watching!
I’m eager to find out the specific details but so far my sources aren’t talking. However, Cognex has a reputation for aggressively protecting its patents, so it will be very interesting to see how this turns out.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Posts
1 comment:
For the sake of clarity, I post a statement from MVTec's managing director Dr. Olaf Munkelt, who commemnts the Cognex claim as follows:
"One of the important values within business is to understand the concept of fair competition. Part of these values is to respect intellectual property rights. MVTec is ready and committed to defend itself as well as its customers against these claims because we believe these claims to be unfounded. MVTec has spent a great amount of resources over the years to invent, develop, and to patent machine vision technology. Last but not least we should keep in mind that back in 2003 Cognex withdrew a law suit regarding matching technology against another one of their biggest competitors."
Post a Comment