Business Objects Outguns Brio Technology in Patent Dispute
M. Reed - September 14, 1999

Event Summary

'SAN JOSE, Sept 13 /Business Wire/ -- Business Objects (NASDAQ: BOBJ) and Brio Technology (NASDAQ: BRYO) today announced the settlement of their pending patent litigation involving Business Objects' United States patent number 5,555,403 entitled 'Relational Database Access System Using Semantically Dynamic Objects.' Under the agreement, the detailed terms of which are confidential: -- Brio acknowledges the validity of Business Objects' US patent number 5,555,403 -- Brio will pay an undisclosed sum of money to Business Objects for rights to use the Business Objects' US patent 5,555,403. In addition, Brio will dismiss its pending lawsuit against Business Objects alleging infringement of Brio's US patent number 5,915,257.'..