SONOSITE INC
			Symbol			SONO

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SonoSite Announces Global Patent Settlement With GE

2009-10-19 07:30 ET - News Release

Agreement Affirms Value of Patents and Establishes Innovative Research Foundation

Company Website: http://www.sonosite.com
BOTHELL, Wash. -- (Business Wire)

SonoSite, Inc. (Nasdaq:SONO), the world leader and specialist in hand-carried ultrasound for the point-of-care, announced today that the company has resolved all pending patent litigation with General Electric Company (GE). This includes the lawsuit filed by GE in 2008 in the federal district court in Madison, Wisconsin (case no. 08-cv-298-bbc) to invalidate SonoSite's US Patent No. 5,722,412 (the '412" patent") and a pending appeals in the Federal Circuit (case nos. 2008-1567, 2008-1568) of certain rulings in a patent infringement case filed by GE in the same Wisconsin court in 2007. The settlement also resolves a revocation action filed by GE in the Federal Patent Court in Germany relating to the '412 patent.

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