| | Shimano Suit Blocks SRAM Cassettes, Trigger Shifters From German Market (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Shimano's allegations that SRAM cassettes infringe on Shimano's European patents had been through a series of German patent court hearings and a publicized decision, but the preliminary injunction against marketing the trigger shifters in Germany, obtained in a more recent and separate filing, took SRAM by surprise. |
 | | SRAM filed for a stay against the injunction in the cassette case and hopes to resume marketing the cassettes in Germany while its appeals are pending, but has not received a ruling. |
 | | SRAM had designed their own trigger shifters, and was of course aware of Shimano's intellectual property and designed our products so as not to infringe on any intellectual property," Benzer said. |
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