Quantel Files Patent Infringement Action Against Adobe

Mountain View, Calif., (January 24, 1996) (Nasdaq: ADBE) -- Adobe Systems
Incorporated announced today that Quantel Limited, a U.K. corporation, has
filed and served on Adobe a complaint alleging that the Adobe Photoshop
program infringes five U.S. patents held by Quantel. The complaint was
filed in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware.
Since the complaint arrived without prior notice from Quantel, Adobe is
unable at this time to determine whether the complaint has any merit;
however, Adobe is actively investigating the allegations. The complaint
seeks a permanent injunction and unspecified damages.

Adobe Systems Incorporated, founded in 1982, is headquartered in Mountain
View, California. Adobe develops, markets and supports computer software
products and technologies that enable users to create, display, print and
communicate electronic documents. The company licenses its technology to
major computer, printing and publishing suppliers, and markets a line of
applications software and type products for authoring visually rich
documents. Additionally, the company markets a line of powerful, but easy
to use, products for home and small business users. Adobe has subsidiaries
in Europe and the Pacific Rim serving a worldwide network of dealers and
distributors. Adobe's 1995 revenue was approximately $762 million.
 
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