MENLO PARK, CA,
September 19, 2005
/PRNewswire — Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc's (Nasdaq: UCTT) subsidiary,
Ultra Clean Technology Systems and Service, Inc., has filed a suit against Celerity
seeking a declaratory judgment that Ultra Clean's new substrate technology, which
is in the final stages of development, does not infringe certain of Celerity's
patents.
Ultra Clean's action was filed in the federal court in the Northern
District of California on September 2, 2005, 11 days in advance of
the recently announced Celerity suit against UCT, and is directed at
the same patents specified in Celerity's claim filed in federal court
in Delaware against Ultra Clean and announced today.
"Ultra Clean Technology respects the Intellectual Property rights
of others," said Clarence Granger, President and Chief Executive
Officer of UCT. "At the same time, we will vigorously defend
our right to develop new technology in this arena. UCT has its
own intellectual property that covers its independently developed,
proprietary substrate technology and we believe that the Federal Court
will find that we do not infringe the Celerity patents."
Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc. is a developer and supplier of critical subsystems
for the semiconductor capital equipment industry, focusing on gas delivery systems. Ultra
Clean offers its customers a complete outsourced solution for gas delivery systems,
improved design-to-delivery cycle times, component neutral design and manufacturing
and component testing capabilities. Ultra Clean's customers are primarily
original equipment manufacturers of semiconductor capital equipment. The
Company is headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Additional information
is available at www.uct.com.
This press release contains, or may be deemed to contain, "forward-looking
statements" (as defined in the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform
Act of 1995) which reflect Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc's current views with respect
to future events and financial performance. Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc. uses
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"may," "will," "should," "estimates," "predicts," "potential," "continue"
and similar expressions to identify these forward-looking statements. All
forward-looking statements address matters that involve risks and uncertainties.
Accordingly, you should not rely on forward-looking statements, as there are
or will be important factors that could cause our actual results, as well
as those of the markets we serve, levels of activity, performance, achievements
and prospects to differ materially from the results predicted or implied by
these forward-looking statements. These risks, uncertainties and other factors
include, among others, those identified in "Risk Factors," "Management's
Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" and
elsewhere in the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission on August 12, 2005.
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