Read the full judgment text of DCCJ 005052/2002 on BabelCite. This District Court judgment was delivered on 3 June 2004.
1. The plaintiff is a Hong Kong company, in the business of making semiconductor equipment. One of the things which it makes is called a "package"; that is a little sealed box, with contacts under its four corners, containing a crystal. The package must be hermetically sealed by welding on a metal lid. This is done by an automatic welding machine called a "seam sealer". Before the package gets to the seam sealer, the lid must be precisely placed and this may be done by tack-welding it in positio