The Court confirmed on January 10 - 2012, that Emhart's hot end inspection machine FlexRadar infringes XPAR's patent rights (EP 0643297) relating to the use of IR technology in the container glass industry in Germany. The court had ordered already in 2010 with a preliminary injunction that Emhart is not allowed to offer FlexRadar on the Glasstec 2010 and now confirmed this decision. Following this decision, which can be appealed by Emhart, Emhart may no longer continue its FlexRadar activities in the German market. The judgment has immediate effect.

XPAR Vision is taking cases of possible infringement of it’s patent rights very serious. The reason for being so serious is that XPAR spends a lot of energy and money developing new technology and learning container glass manufacturers how to use this technology most effectively. Although the XPAR Vision InfraRed Dual camera solution (IR-D) is on the way to become the industry standard, the market is still not mature and therefore it is too early to allow competitors to free-ride on XPAR’s developments.

It is XPAR Vision’s dedication to develop a logical portfolio of solutions as the answer for the industry to further optimise the forming process in terms of quality and efficiency and to produce lighter and stronger containers at higher speed, using less energy, reducing emissions and enhancing the competitiveness of glass against other packaging materials. Today, the XPAR Vision product portfolio comprises the InfraRed Dual camera system (IR-D), Infrared Gob weight Control system (IGC), Gob Assist and SQL-based information system (XMIS). Besides and in order to complete this range, the Blank side Temperature Control system (BTC) and the Hot End Analyser are in development.