Israel-based Nova Measuring Instruments Ltd. said Monday the court has granted its motion for a stay in a patent suit filed against it by Nanometrics Inc. Judge Saundra Brown Armstrong in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted the stay, while the U.S Patent & Trademark Office re-examines the patent, the company said. The patent infringement suit was filed in late March 2006. Nova, which makes optical monitoring systems used in chip manufacturing, denies that it has infringed a Nanometrics patent. Nanometrics Chief Financial Officer Douglas McCutcheon confirmed that the judge stayed the proceedings and said this is very common in the early stages of litigation when not much discovery has taken place. The Milpitas, Calif., company provides thin-film metrology and inspection systems used to make precision electronic gear.

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