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"Our employees have worked countless hours and AspenTech has invested millions of dollars over the years in developing our software solutions for our process industry customers. We are gratified by the juryas verdict protecting and enforcing our valuable intellectual property rights."

The corrected release reads:

JURY RETURNS VERDICT AGAINST M3 TECHNOLOGY IN FAVOR OF ASPEN TECHNOLOGY IN TRADE SECRET MISAPPROPRIATION, COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT, AND TORTIOUS INTERFERENCE ACTION

Aspen Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AZPN), a leading provider of software and services to the process industries, announced that a federal court jury has returned a verdict against M3 Technology in favor of AspenTech in a case against M3 Technology, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas.

After a three-week trial, the jury found that M3 Technology had misappropriated AspenTech trade secrets, infringed copyrights in AspenTechas refinery planning and scheduling software, and tortiously interfered with AspenTechas confidentiality and non-competition agreement with a former AspenTech employee.

Mark E. Fusco, President and Chief Executive Officer of AspenTech, said, aOur employees have worked countless hours and AspenTech has invested millions of dollars over the years in developing our software solutions for our process industry customers. We are gratified by the juryas verdict protecting and enforcing our valuable intellectual property rights.a

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