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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DualPROXTM reader launched as two-year litigation battle with PAC ends1 June 2000 --
JTi Technologies Limited announces today that all
outstanding legal action by PAC International Limited ends in the High Court
with the sealing of a consent order. PAC
had been pursuing various claims of breach of copyright against JTi with regard
to JTi’s DualPROXTM
proximity reader technology. PAC
International Limited - a leading UK manufacturer of access control equipment,
believed that the DualPROXTM reader
is a major threat to their business. In an attempt to protect their
position PAC launched an action in the High Court in London followed by a breach
of copyright action against JTi. After the first action was withdrawn and cost awarded to JTi and then after nearly two years
without progressing the copyright claim, PAC have consented to withdraw all their
claims, this brings to a close their legal challenges. John Kay - Managing Director of JTi Technologies
Ltd says: “We
believed at the outset that PAC’s actions were without merit.
In my opinion they have been using the legal system to try to stifle
legitimate competition and deprive the market of an innovation and highly
cost-effective product. The DualPROXTM Reader
is a great innovation within the proximity market.
Many end-users and especially those within the local authority market
have become tied to one manufacturer or supplier for their cards or tokens,
readers and system. Because of their captive situation they are often being
charged premium prices. By using
the DualPROXTM
Reader the end-user has an extremely cost effective choice to either keep their
existing tokens and use another system or to mix PAC’s old and new
identification devices, together with JTi’s identification devices all on the
same system. The
DualPROXTM
reader is able to reading all of PAC’s versions of tokens and cards including
its newly release 125kHz cards and tokens a feat that PAC have not been able to
achieve themselves.”
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