Electromagnetic Geoservices (emgs) Turns to the Courts to Affirm its Intellectual Property Rights to Seabed Logging

Electromagnetic Geoservices (emgs) Turns to the Courts to Affirm its Intellectual Property Rights to Seabed Logging

October 05, 2006

    LONDON, Oct. 5 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Electromagnetic
Geoservices AS (emgs) has launched proceedings in the High
Court in London against Offshore Hydrocarbon Mapping plc
(OHM) for the infringement of one of emgs patents related
to Seabed Logging, also referred to as controlled-source
electromagnetic (CSEM) marine surveying for the direct
detection of hydrocarbons beneath the seabed.

    Earlier this year, The University of Southampton, which
founded OHM, withdrew an appeal against a decision made in
July 2005 by The UK Patent Office to award ownership of a
UK patent and a number of foreign applications on Seabed
Logging to Statoil ASA.  This patent and the foreign
applications were then transferred from Statoil to emgs. 
The Patent Office had concluded that the inventive concept
in the Seabed Logging patent was devised by Terje Eidesmo
and Svein Ellingsrud (now at emgs) and belonged to
Statoil.

    Despite this decision, OHM has continued to perform
Seabed Logging operations in regions in which emgs has
confirmed patents.  In view of this situation emgs has been
forced to pursue a case to enforce its intellectual property
rights through the courts.

    CONTACT:  
    
    Electromagnetic Geoservices AS
     Terje Eidesmo
     CEO 
     Tel:   [phone] 
     Email: [e-mail]
    
     Ken Feather
     VP Marketing 
     Tel:   [phone] 
     Email: [e-mail]

SOURCE  emgs