press release

Fujikura Ltd. (Director, President and CEO: Naoki Okada) filed a lawsuit against Sterlite Technologies (headquartered in India) in the High Court of England (England and Wales) on October 23 local time, together with Fujikura Europe Ltd., a local subsidiary that sales Fujikura products in the United Kingdom. This lawsuit seeks an injunction against Fujikura 3796060 of the Fujikura European Patent for the high-density multi-centric Fiber Optic Cable SWR®/WTC® developed by Sterlite Technologies, which is sales in the United Kingdom, and seeks an injunction against sales in determining that the high-density multicentric Fiber Optic Cable developed by Sterlite Technologies infringes it.