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NEWS RUNDOWN CARL ZEISS FORGES AGREEMENTS #ARL :EISS 6ISION )NC AND %SSILOR 'ROUP HAVE REACHED AN AGREEMENT CONCERNING #ARL :EISS PATENTED BACK SURFACE FREE FORM PROGRESSIVE LENS technology. Part of this agreement included settling the patent infringement LITIGATION BETWEEN #ARL :EISS AND 3IGNET !RMORLITE )NC AN AFlLIATE OF %SSILOR 5NDER THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT #ARL :EISS HAS APPROVED A ROYALTY BEARING LICENSE UNDER 5 3 0ATENT .O AND ITS FOREIGN COUNTERPARTS TO %SSILOR AND THE COMPANY S AFlLIATES 4HESE AFlLIATES INCLUDE 3IGNET !RMORLITE %SSILOR HAS ALSO APPROVED A LICENSE TO #ARL :EISS FOR OTHER particular ophthalmic technologies, including coatings. )N SEPARATE ANNOUNCEMENTS #ARL :EISS 6ISION AND (/9! 6ISION #ARE #O AND 6ISION %ASE ,ENS HAVE ALSO REACHED LICENSE AGREEMENTS UNDER #ARL :EISS 6ISION )NTERNATIONAL S 5 3 0ATENT .O AND !USTRALIAN 0ATENT .O The patents detail specific types of back-surface free-form progressive lenses and the various processes by which they are made. These types of lenses include progressive lenses whose front surfaces are rotationally symmetrical with the back-surface progressive design determined by the individual prescriptions alone or along with other customization options. Pictured from left to right: Sarah Thomason, customer service, Jeff Fazio, HOYA territory manager, Melinda Hunter, service center manager, and Justin Thompson, lab technician at HOYA Iowa. HOYA OPENS NEW LAB IN IOWA HOYA VISION CARE, North America, inaugurated its newest laboratory in Des Moines, IA. Michael Dougher, Regional Vice President for HOYA, said, "The opportunity to locally service independent eyecare professionals in another market is exciting for us. The Des Moines area is growing and we want to grow with it." SHAMIR SIMPLIFIES SPECIFICATIONS ESSILOR ACQUIRES BALESTER OPTICAL AND HIRSCH OPTICAL Esssilor of America, Inc. has acquired the labs Balester Optical Company of Wilkes Barre, PA, and Hirsch Optical of Farmingdale, NY. Balester has been owned by the Balester family since its foundation in 1934. The lab will continue to be managed by Heather Balester, president, and Dale Pamenteri, vice president. Hirsch Optical was founded in 1978 and Michael Rothstein, CEO, and Ken Mittel, senior vice president, will stay on. Essilor also owns another lab in Farmingdale, Tri-Supreme Optical, which includes a stock lens distributor, The Lens Connection. Shamir Insight, Inc. has introduced new product classifications for its expanded product line. Each of its products will now be placed in a specific product category based on its functions: Everyday, Performance Sport, and Occupation. The purpose of this categorization is to understand the differences between each Shamir lens. The Everyday Progressive lenses include both Freeform® lenses such as: Autograph II® Creation® , InTouch™ , and Piccolo® II – Single Vision™ , Spectrum™ , Element™ and semi-finished , FirstPAL™ , . The Everyday Single Vision lenses include: Autograph , Shamir Single Vision, and Spectrum-Single Vision™ . The Performance Sport lenses include the progressives: Golf™ graph II – Attitude™ Golf – Single Vision™ GRAND OPENING OF ESSILOR'S R&D; CENTER On October 4, Essilor of America, Inc. officially opened its Innovation and 4ECHNOLOGY #ENTER AT ITS CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS IN &ARMERS; "RANCH 48 4HE NEW SQ FT FACILITY WAS RELOCATED FROM 3T 0ETERSBURG &, TO &ARMERS; Branch, to allow Essilor to combine its research and development and engineering resources under one roof. "In relocating the Innovation and Technology Center to our headquarters in Dal- LAS WE LL BE ABLE TO BETTER IDENTIFY AND DEVELOP INNOVATIVE PRODUCTS THAT MEET AND EXCEED OUR CUSTOMERS NEEDS v SAID *OHN #ARRIER PRESIDENT AND #%/ OF %SSILOR and Office™ and Auto- . The Performance Sport Single Vision category includes: and Autograph II – Attitude Single Vision™ . Lastly, the Occupation category includes: Autograph II – Office™ . , Relax™ , VSP TAKES ON A NEW IDENTITY VSP Optics Group has announced that its laboratory division, VSP Labs, has taken on a new name—VSPOne™ Optical Technology Centers. "We are now more united under our new identity, and as one team, we build upon a proud optical laboratory history that started four decades ago," said Warren Meyer, Senior Vice President of Laboratory Operations for VSP Optics Group. The following branches of the company have been renamed: s 630 ,ABS #OLUMBUS IS NOW 630/NE #OLUMBUS /( s ,EGENDS Gary Greer, Mayor Bill Glancy, John Carrier, Fred Ferguson, Patrick Poncin, Eric Perrier, Jean Luc Schuppiser and Kevin Rupp. /PTICAL ,ABORATORY IS NOW 630/NE $ALLAS 48 s 5LTRA ,ENS /PTICAL ,ABORATORY IS NOW 630/NE &ORT; ,AUDERDALE &, s #APITOL /PTICAL ,ABORATORY IS NOW 630/NE /LYMPIA 7! s 630 ,ABS 3ACRAMENTO IS NOW 630/NE 3ACRAMENTO #! s 0ERFECT /PTICS IS NOW 630/NE 3AN $IEGO #! s :EISS 630 ,AB 4AMPA "AY IS NOW 630/NE 4AMPA "AY &, VSP Lab Rewards will from now on be called VSPOne Rewards. totallyoptical.com november 2012 17