12.03.07
UCT Comments On Court Injunction
MENLO PARK, CA, DECEMBER 3, 2007 — Ultra Clean
Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: UCTT), the parent company of Ultra Clean Technology
Systems and Service, Inc. (UCT), a leading developer and supplier of
critical subsystems for the semiconductor capital equipment industry,
announced today that an injunction has been entered by the court with
respect to patent infringement claims brought against UCT by Celerity,
Inc., requiring it to cease the manufacturing and sale of its Predator™ product.
In addition, the court entered a judgment awarding Celerity reasonable
royalty damages and pre-judgment interest ($13,900.00 and $523.91 respectively
through June, 2007), as well as Celerity's costs in the litigation, which
the Company does not expect to be material. The judgment is not expected
to have a material adverse effect on UCT's operating results or financial
condition.
This judgment follows the jury's verdict in June 2007 finding that UCT
infringed one of the two patents at issue in the trial, but did not infringe
the other. Prior to the trial, UCT had been granted summary judgment
of non-infringement of four of Celerity's patents, and Celerity had voluntarily
dismissed other asserted claims. In addition, the U.S. Patent Office
has already granted UCT's request to reexamine the patent at issue based
on substantial new questions of patentability raised by prior art not
considered by the Patent Office during the initial examination of the
patent.
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 http://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 words such as "anticipates," "believes,"
"plans," "expects," "future,"' "intends," "may," "will," "should,"
"estimates," "predicts," "potential," "continues" 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 our Annual
Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006 and our Quarterly
Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 28, 2007 filed with
the Securities and Exchange Commission. Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc. undertakes
no obligation to publicly update or review any forward-looking statements,
whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise.
