A US Patent and Trademark Office re-examination has found a basic RPost
proof-of-delivery patent valid.
In a sweeping decision all 89 of its claims have been left standing against
challenges of prior art. Patent holders dream of such things.
It is understood to be a so-called "final final" decision covering items such
as time-stamp authentication.
No one except the PTO knows who made the claims of prior art but that unknown
challenger reportedly dumped scads of documentation on the PTO for it to wade
through and failed.
It's bad news for the slate of companies RPost is suing in federal courts in
California, Texas and Virginia for infringing US Patent No 6,182,219
including Swiss Post, Canada Post, Adobe, Docusign, Zix, RightSignature and
Farmers Insurance among others.
Jury trial dates have now been set for the cases in the Eastern District of
Texas for August of ... (more)
The US Department of the Interior has moved its e-mail business to Google,
which sued when the agency gave Microsoft a five-year $59.3 million
cloud-based e-mail contract in 2010 claiming the department's research was
"stale" and Microsoft's security wasn't certified for government use.
It's going with Google Apps for Government and Gmail instead. It will cover
upwards of 90,000 seats.
The agency's been reconsidering its original decision since late last year.
The deal is worth $34.9 million over seven years to Google and its reseller
Onix Networking.
Microsoft said it "will eng... (more)
RPost's latest integration with Esquire is called iScrub. This new product
removes metadata from important "reusable" documents such as loan application
forms. One of the questions raised by using a product like this is what
effect metadata cleaning would have on evidence used in the courtroom. We
asked RPost CEO Zafar Khan to weigh in on how metadata changes electronic
documents and the effect that can have.
In Dr. Craig Ball's blog, he smartly notes: "Application metadata resides
within the file and moves with the file, not changing unless the contents of
the file are altered.... (more)
Zumbox, the American digital mail start-up, has changed its overseas
strategy. Rather than try to involve the local postal operator - as it has
once with New Zealand Post - it's going to go it alone.
It's starting in Australia where its wholly owned licensing arm, Zumbox
Software Inc, has just climbed in bed with two big publicly traded mail
outsourcers to create a joint venture called Digital Post Australia (DPA)
that will offer consumers a way to get their paper mail electronically.
Digital Post Australia is supposed to be the first digital postal system in
Australia.
Zumbox ... (more)
A federal court in California has upheld the validity of a key RPost patent
reinforcing the company's claims to own the technology for registered,
legally recognized, court-admissible evidence of e-mail content and delivery
going back to 1995.
RPost's 35 patents, granted in 21 countries, broadly cover verifiable proof
of e-mail delivery and value-added outbound e-mail processing.
On December 27 the District Court for the Central District of California
granted RPost a summary judgment finding its US patent 6,182,219 valid.
The decision is a lead-up to RPost's infringement suit agai... (more)