Copyrights & Patents

All Vacuum Instruments Corporation, LLC ("Vacuum Instruments Corporation", "VIC"), created editorial content, information, software, photos, video, graphics, music, HTML, XHTML, CSS, sounds, tones or other material (collectively, "Content") on this site are protected by U.S. copyright and international treaties and may not be copied without the express permission of Vacuum Instruments Corporation, which reserves all rights. All Content is copyrighted as a collective work under the U.S. copyright laws, and Vacuum Instruments Corporation owns a copyright in the selection, coordination, arrangement and enhancement of such Content (sometimes known as "look and feel" or "presentation layer"). This includes our color combinations, button shapes, layout, content management and administration system and banners, and all other graphical elements.

Re-use of any of our Content for any purpose other than your own personal and non-commercial use is strictly prohibited. You may not modify, transcode, adapt, publish, transmit, remove any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary notices, participate in the transfer or sale, create derivative works, add a wrapper comprised of any combination of header, footer, sidebars, navigation, or advertising; or in any way exploit, any of the content, in whole or in part. You may not upload, post, reproduce or distribute content protected by copyright or other proprietary right, without obtaining permission of the copyright owner. The materials from our site are available for personal, informational and noncommercial uses only. Permission to use VIC Content is granted on a case-by-case basis. We welcome requests at communications@vicleakdetection.com .

Trademark Information
“VIC LEAK DETECTION”, "VEECO", and the Vacuum Instruments Corporation logo are trademarks of Vacuum Instruments Corporation, that may be registered in certain jurisdictions. Other trademarks displayed on the Vacuum Instruments Corporation Website (as defined in the Terms of Service) are trademarks of their respective owners.

Trademarks identify VIC products and services. You may make fair use of our trademarks in advertising and promotional materials, and in referring to our products and services (for example, in a magazine article) without our permission, provided you follow standard trademark usage practices and provide proper attribution. Other uses require our written permission. Please make such requests by e-mail to communications@vicleakdetection.com .

Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, you may never use our trademarks in the following ways:

• In a non-VIC product name or publication title.
• In, as, or as part of your own trademarks.
• To identify products or services that are not VIC's.
• To cause confusion.
• To suggest inaccurately that we sponsor, endorse, or are otherwise connected with your activities, products, or services.
• To disparage VIC.
• In any other manner that VIC or its users find offensive.

When you use our trademarks, please include the following attribution:

• [VIC TRADEMARK HERE] is a registered trademark of Vacuum Instruments Corporation, LLC.
• [VIC TRADEMARK HERE] and [VIC TRADEMARK HERE] are registered trademarks of Vacuum Instruments Corporation, LLC.

Except as noted above, you may not use, copy, or redistribute VIC logos without written or electronic permission from VIC. If you do not have a pre-existing agreement with Delivr, you may request permission for logo use, but such permission is granted only infrequently. Send your request for permission to use a VIC logo to legal@vicleakdetection.com . Please include a description of your company, why and how you want to use it, and a mock-up showing the proposed use.

Restriction
VIC claims no responsibility for the accuracy, content, or availability of information accessed or linked to through use of its service. In addition, we encourage users to determine what restrictions the authors and providers of linked-to web sites have placed upon use of the information contained in those web sites, and to abide by all restrictions placed on that information by the information authors and providers.

You may elect to download third-party software that we may link to or index, but please remember that VIC does not create, endorse, or sponsor that software. If you download any third-party materials that we index or link to, you do so completely at your own risk. If you plan to download any software, please be sure to read the copyright and licensing information first.

Claims of Copyright Infringement
VIC respects the intellectual property of others, and we ask our users to do the same. VIC may, in appropriate circumstances and at its discretion, terminate the accounts of users who infringe the intellectual property rights of others.

If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide VIC's Copyright contact with the following information:

• an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest;
• a description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed;
• a description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the site;
• your address, telephone number, and e-mail address;
• a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
• a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your Notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf.
• Please contact VIC's Copyright contact for Notice of Claims of Copyright Infringement by mail as follows:

Vacuum Instruments Corporation, LLC
2101 Ninth Avenue
Ronkonkoma, NY 11779
Attention: Copyrights & Patents

This contact information is only for reporting copyright infringement. Contact information for other matters is provided elsewhere on this site.

Patent Notices
Vacuum Instruments Corporation, LLC products, system or portions thereof are covered by the following U.S. patents.

• United States Patent No. 3,070,992 –  “PRESSURE GAUGE AND METHOD OF OPERATION“ - Granted on January 1, 1963
• United States Patent No. 3,227,872 – “MASS SPECTROMEER LEAK DETECTING DEVICE IN COMBINATION WITH A GETTERING CHAMBER“ - Granted on January 4, 1966
• United States Patent No. 3,548,188 – “METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MASS ANALYZING A GAS WHICH IS SELECTIVELY DESORBED FROM A BODY“ - Granted on December 15, 1970
• United States Patent No. 3,645,127 – “REMOTE LEAK DETECTION“ - February 29, 1972
• United States Patent No. 3,768,300 – “DIFFERENTIAL SORPTION CHROMATOGRAPHY“ - Granted on October 30, 1973
• United States Patent No. 3,837,228 – “TRACER GAS-PERMEABLE PROBE FOR LEAK DETECTORS“ - Granted on September 24, 1974
• United States Patent No. 3,891,391 – “FLUID FLOW MEASURING SYSTEM USING IMPROVED TEMPERATURE COMPENSATION APPARTUS AND METHOD“ - Granted on June 24, 1975
• United States Patent No. 5,412,978 – “LEAK DETECTION SYSTEM“ - Granted on May 9, 1995
• United States Patent No. 6,196,056 – “SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING INTEGRITY OF A GAS-SEALED COMPARTMENT“ - Granted on March 6, 2001

Last Updated: July 16, 2018