
Palm, Inc. announced that a federal court has agreed with Palm that assertions of patent infringement made by E-Pass Technologies, Inc., are unfounded. In an order dated Aug. 12, 2002, Federal Judge Lowell Jensen of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted Palm’s request for summary judgment, finding that Palm had not infringed the E-Pass patent. Last month, Palm was similarly exonerated when a federal court in Delaware ruled that Palm did not infringe two patents asserted by NCR Corp.