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38
For the year ended March 31, 2003
Net sales
Outside customers
Intersegment sales
Tota l
Operating expenses
Operating income (loss)
Assets
Consolidated
$3,901,487
3,901,487
3,866,660
$34,827
$4,799,597
(Eliminations)
or corporate
$
(1,964,777)
(1,964,777)
(1,994,589)
$29,812
$137,213
Total
$3,901,487
1,964,777
5,866,264
5,861,249
$5,015
$4,662,384
Asia
$249,167
127,182
376,349
355,045
$21,304
$152,287
Europe
$837,032
1,980
839,012
842,513
$(3,501)
$369,804
North
America
$1,320,099
14,483
1,334,582
1,287,133
$47,449
$652,687
Japan
$1,495,189
1,821,132
3,316,321
3,376,558
$(60,237)
$3,487,606
Thousands of U.S. Dollars
(c) Export Sales
For the years ended March 31, 2003 and 2002
Export sales (A)
North America
Europe
Asia
Other Area
Tota l
Net sales (B)
Thousands of
U.S. Dollars
2003
$1,307,516
836,748
639,471
106,903
$2,890,638
$3,901,487
(A)/(B)
41.9%
16.9
13.5
1.1
73.4%
2002
¥202,243
81,816
65,172
5,240
¥354,471
¥482,975
(A)/(B)
33.5%
21.4
16.4
2.8
74.1%
2003
¥157,163
100,577
76,864
12,850
¥347,454
¥468,959
Millions of Yen, %
Note: “Other Area” consists principally of South and Central America and Oceania.
16. TRADE MATTERS
On December 21, 2001, the Company and its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Nikon Precision Inc. and Nikon Research Corporation of America,
filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission (the “ITC”) against ASM Lithography Holding N.V. and ASM Lithography B.V. in
The Netherlands and ASM Lithography, Inc., a sales subsidiary of ASM Lithography Holding N.V. in the U.S., for an exclusion order from the ITC
to prevent any further importation of the stepper and scanner machines infringing the Company’s patents in the U.S. pursuant to section 337
of the Tariff Act of 1930. The ITC issued its Initial Determination that the Company’s request for the exclusion order was denied on January 29,
2003 and adopted the findings of the Initial Determination as its Final Determination on March 17, 2003. The Company, Nikon Precision Inc.
and Nikon Research Corporation of America filed a Notice of Appeal to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit of the ITC decision on
May 12, 2003.
Additionally, the Company and Nikon Precision Inc. filed a complaint in the Federal District Court for the Northern District of California
against ASM Lithography B.V. and ASM Lithography, Inc. on December 21, 2001 and against ASML Netherlands B.V. and ASM Lithography,
Inc. on October 18, 2002, for an injunction of patent infringement and monetary damages.
As part of response to our ITC complaint, ASML Netherlands B.V. and ASM Lithography, Inc. counterclaimed on April 5, 2002 that Nikon
Corporation infringes their patents and such counterclaim was transferred to the Federal District Court for the Northern District of California.
Furthermore, the Company and certain subsidiaries are in litigation with ASML Netherlands B.V. and its affiliated companies over patent
infringement cases in Japan and Korea.