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Gemplus Announces Successful Litigation Result

Luxembourg (ots/PRNewswire)

Gemplus International S.A.
(Euronext: LU0121706294 - GEM and NASDAQ: GEMP), the world's leading
provider of smart card enabled solutions, today reports on a
successful result on appeal in a lawsuit concerning an alleged breach
of contract by Gemplus S.A., a subsidiary of Gemplus International
S.A. in France, regarding the promotion of smart card solutions for
casino slot machines.
On May 26, 2005, the Aix-en-Provence Court of Appeal rendered a
decision in favour of Gemplus S.A., reversing the judgement of the
Marseille Commercial Court of March 18, 2004 which had found that
Gemplus S.A. had breached the contract and had ordered Gemplus S.A.
to pay the plaintiffs EUR 22 million in damages. The Court of Appeals
dismissed all the plaintiffs' claims for damages and ordered the
plaintiffs to pay court costs and expert's fees. On April 2, 2004,
the Court of Appeal had previously decided at Gemplus S.A.'s request
to suspend the enforcement of the decision of the Marseilles
Commercial Court and had ordered Gemplus S.A. to make a cash deposit
of EUR 22 million into an escrow account as security pending the
decision on Gemplus S.A.'s appeal on the merits. Now as a result of
the May 26, 2005 appeal decision, this escrow deposit will be
released and restituted in full to Gemplus S.A.
The group recorded a provision of EUR 5.2 million in respect of
this matter, as reported in the Company's consolidated accounts at
December 31, 2003.
The case is subject to a possible request for appeal to the French
Supreme Court, which would require that Court's approval and be
strictly limited to questions of law.
About Gemplus:
Gemplus International S.A. (Euronext: LU0121706294 - GEM and
NASDAQ: GEMP) is the world's leading player in the smart card
industry in both revenue and total shipments (source:
Gartner-Dataquest (2005), Frost & Sullivan, Datamonitor.). It has
sold over 5 billion smart cards.
With security at its core, and 2400 patents and patent
applications produced by its innovative R&D team, Gemplus delivers a
wide range of portable, personalized solutions in areas including
Identity, Mobile Telecommunications, Public Telephony, Banking,
Retail, Transport, Healthcare, WLAN, Pay-TV, e-government, and access
control.
Gemplus' revenue in 2004 was 865 million Euros.
www.gemplus.com
Contacts:
    Remi Calvet
    Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications
    Tel: +33-(0)622728158
     Remi.calvet@gemplus.com
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Some of the statements contained in this release constitute
forward-looking statements. These statements relate to future events
or our future financial performance and involve known and unknown
risks, uncertainties, and other factors that may cause our or our
industry's actual results, levels of activity, performance or
achievements to be materially different from any future results,
levels of activities, performance, or achievements expressed or
implied by such forward-looking statements. Actual events or results
may differ materially. Although we believe that the expectations
reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot
guarantee future results, levels of activity, performance or
achievements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ
materially from those estimated by the forward-looking statements
contained in this release include, but are not limited to: trends in
wireless communication and mobile commerce markets; our ability to
develop new technology, and the effects of competing technologies
developed and expected intense competition generally in our main
markets; profitability of our expansion strategy; challenges to or
loss of our intellectual property rights; our ability to establish
and maintain strategic relationships in our major businesses; our
ability to develop and take advantage of new software and services;
and the effect of future acquisitions and investments on our share
price. Moreover, neither we nor any other person assumes
responsibility for the accuracy and completeness of such
forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements contained
in this release speak only as of this release. We are under no duty
to update any of the forward-looking statements after this date to
conform such statements to actual results or to reflect the
occurrence of anticipated results.

Contact:

Remi Calvet, Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications, Tel:
+33-(0)622728158 Remi.calvet@gemplus.com

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