WALL, NJ--(Marketwire - Aug 21, 2012) - BIO-key International, Inc. (OTCBB: [ BKYI ]), a global leader in fingerprint biometric identification solutions and advanced mobile identification technology, responds to a patent infringement suit filed by Blue Spike, LLC.

Between August 9th and August 16th, 2012, Blue Spike, LCC, filed suits alleging patent infringement against thirteen companies. The defendants span a wide range of industries, from chip manufacture to digital rights management, video streaming and digital watermarking. In addition, Blue Spike filed suit against BIO-key International, Inc., a fingerprint biometric company that was founded in 1993.

Blue Spike claims that each defendant is infringing unspecified claims in U.S. Patents Nos.: 7,346,472; 7,660,700; 7,949,494; and 8,214,175. All four patents are titled "Method and device for Monitoring and analyzing signals."

"BIO-key believes Blue Spike's claims to be without merit and intends to vigorously defend itself," said BIO-key's CEO, Michael DePasquale.

About BIO-key
BIO-key International, Inc., headquartered in Wall, New Jersey, develops and delivers advanced identification solutions to commercial and government enterprises, integrators, and custom application developers. BIO-key's award winning, high performance, scalable, cost-effective and easy-to-deploy biometric finger identification technology accurately identifies and authenticates users of wireless and enterprise applications. Our solutions are used in local embedded OEM products as well as some of the world's largest identification deployments to improve security, guarantee identity, and help reduce identity theft. BIO-key's technology is offered directly or by market leading partners around the world. ([ http://www.bio-key.com ])

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