From the Uniloc website:
Device locking was invented by Uniloc’s founder, Ric Richardson, in 1992. Uniloc was subsequently granted the seminal device locking patent in 1996: US 5,490,216; System for Software Registration.
Today, Uniloc has over 10 related patents pending which leverage the power of device locking into several new markets and applications.
This is my first and most well known patent written back in 1992 in Australia and granted in the US in 1996. The patent covers the concept of locking a specific software licesne to a specific machine. This approach has been used by most of the world’s top software publishers and is even beginning to be used to secure financial and banking web transactions.
Ric has been working on businesses that exploit the patent ever since he invented the concept in 1992.
May 17, 2007
Ron Katz is probably the single biggest private patent licensor/ inventor in history. His strategy of going after infringers from the biggest first is really paying off for him. It remains to be seen if courts will require inventors to actually try to produce products based on their invention rather than just licensing patent rights.
The nonexclusive license covers services offered by Cullen/Frost Bankers,
Inc. and The Frost National Bank in the “Financial Services Call Processing”
Field of Use including customer service delivered through automated systems and
live agents. Other terms of the license were not disclosed.
The patents held by Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing, L.P. cover a wide
range of interactive technology including automated forms of: customer service,
prescription refill services, securities trading, merchandising, prepaid
services, telephone conferences, registration, home shopping, as well as
functions involved in securing information from databases by telephone,
interactive cable transactions, and various other uses of toll free and local
numbers.
Ronald A. Katz stated, “We welcome Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc. to the dozens
of financial services companies who have purchased license rights under this
portfolio.” |
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March 9, 2007
