Chondrometrics GmbH: Montreal Based ArthroVision Inc. Accepts Court Decision and Abandons German Part of Osteoarthritis Research Related Patent EP 1230561

AINRING, Germany--(Business Wire)--
Chondrometrics GmbH announced today that ArthroVision Inc., a wholly-owned
subsidiary of Horizon Sciences & Technologies Inc., Montreal, has accepted the
decision of the District Court of Munich, Germany from March 19th 2009 that
Chondrometrics GmbH does not make use of the claims of ArthroVision's patent EP
1 230 561 and therefore does not infringe on the German part of the patent.
ArthroVision has withdrawn its appeal for the first instance judgment to be
taken to the 2nd level of jurisdiction and thus accepts the decision as being
final.

Montreal based ArthroVision Inc. has also abandoned the German part of the
Osteoarthritis research related European patent EP 1 230 561 (Title: Evaluating
Disease Progression using Magnetic Resonance Imaging) and waived all claims
against Chondrometrics GmbH based on this patent for the past, in view of an
invalidity complaint filed by Chondrometrics GmbH in the German Federal Patent
Court of Munich.

About Chondrometrics GmbH

Chondrometrics GmbH, a Germany-based company located in Ainring, Bavaria, is a
leading provider of medical image analysis services to researchers in academia
and in the pharmaceutical industry. The focus of the company is on quantitative
analysis of articular cartilage from magnetic resonance images (MRI) and on the
research of osteoarthritis. The company has developed a highly efficient
software platform and formed a team of specialized and highly experienced
readers to provide quantitative imaging surrogates of tissue adaptation and
disease progression for large scale studies. Representatives of the company have
published extensively in the biomedical literature, with the aims of providing
novel and more efficient image analysis methodologies, and to gain a better
understanding of musculoskeletal diseases, specifically osteoarthritis. For more
information about Chondrometrics GmbH, please visit www.chondrometrics.com

Chondrometrics GmbH - Medical Data processing
Wolfgang Wirth (+491751616561)
Ulrichshöglerstr. 23
83404 Ainring
Germany
Handelsregisternummer:
HRB 1596-0, Handelsregister Amtsgericht Traunstein
USt-Id.Nr.: DE228451495

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