Ricoh Polska

London, February 2008 — Ricoh Americas Corporation and Ricoh Electronics, Inc., and their parent company, Ricoh Company, Ltd., along with Katun Corporation, General Plastics Industrial Company, Ltd., and Nashua Corporation announced today that they have reached an out of court settlement in the lawsuit claiming infringement of several Ricoh patents as well as for trademark infringement and unfair competition, and a counterclaim against Ricoh for monopolization of the aftermarket for supplies and consumables for certain Ricoh, Savin, Lanier and Gestetner copiers.

No details of the settlement are available.

Ricoh Americas Corporation, headquartered in West Caldwell, N.J., is a subsidiary of Ricoh Company Ltd., the 71-year-old leading supplier of office automation equipment and electronics, with fiscal year 2006 sales in excess of $17 billion, an 8.4 percent increase over the previous year.

Ricoh Americas Corporation directly or through its network of authorized independent dealers markets and distributes products in North, Central and South America. For fiscal year 2006, Ricoh Americas Corporation sales exceeded $3.3 billion, an increase of 7.4 percent over the previous year.

For further information, please contact:
Ricoh Europe PLC
Peter T. Van der Kaag
Tel.: +44 (0)20 7465 1153
Tel.: +31 (0)20 54 74 153
E-mail: postmaster@ricoh-europe.com
Home page: www.ricoh-europe.com

Ugoda pomiędzy Ricoh i Katun Corporation kończy proces o naruszenie praw patentowych