Thermage(R) and Syneron today announced that they have reached an agreement, resolving lawsuits that claimed Syneron infringed certain patents held by Thermage and that Thermage infringed a patent held by Syneron. The Thermage lawsuit, originally filed on July 23, 2004 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, sought damages and injunctive relief for infringement of six Thermage patents that Thermage alleged were infringed by Syneron's systems for non-invasively treating skin. The Thermage patents asserted in the lawsuit were U.S. Patent No. 6,749,624, (the '624 patent), which claims methods and devices for treating skin using either light or radiofrequency (RF) energy or both, as well as five additional patents added in a subsequent filing by Thermage on December 3, 2004, which relate to methods and devices for tightening skin and achieving other beneficial improvements in skin and tissue structures, all without damaging the skin surface.

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