Avistar Announces Key Patent Advisor Joins Team.Business Editors and High Tech Writers REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 2, 2001 Avistar Communications Corporation (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :AVSR (Audio Visual Speech Recognition) Using lip reading software to enhance speech recognition. In noisy environments where a camera can be included, AVSR improves the computer's ability to recognize the speaker's words by visually tracking lip movement and ), the enterprise video company, today announced that Paul D. Carmichael will serve as primary patent licensing advisor for Collaboration Properties, Inc Collaboration Properties, Inc. (CPI) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Avistar Communications Corporation. It holds US and foreign patents in the primary areas of presence-based interactions, desktop video, recorded and live media at the desktop, multimedia documents, data sharing, . (CPI (1) (Characters Per Inch) The measurement of the density of characters per inch on tape or paper. A printer's CPI button switches character pitch. (2) (Counts Per I ), its wholly-owned intellectual property subsidiary. Carmichael joins a sound team of patent counsel which includes the law firms Sughrue, Mion, Zinn, McPeak and Seas, PLLC PLLC Professional Limited Liability Company PLLC Polk Life and Learning Center (Bartow, FL) PLLC Partners of Limited Liability Corporation and Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich and Rosati, Professional Corporation. CPI's patent portfolio currently includes 25 U.S. and foreign patents and several pending patent applications that span important aspects of desktop networked video collaboration. Included in the portfolio are patents that cover Avistar's VOS An operating system used in Stratus computers. FTX is Stratus' Unix operating system. (TM) video operating system. "We are delighted that someone of Paul's experience, stature, and credibility has joined our intellectual property team," said William L. Campbell, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of CPI. "His experience in leading IBM's and Apple's worldwide intellectual property activities and in private practice will be invaluable as we seek to create partnerships that provide other companies with access to Avistar's VOS(TM) video operating system and other intellectual property." "I am delighted to be associated with CPI's partnership-oriented licensing strategy and with the opportunity to advance Avistar's video communications platform," said Carmichael. "I look forward to helping formulate licensing programs that can provide both strong intellectual property protection and substantial value for Avistar and its strategic partners." Inquiries regarding CPI's licensing programs may be directed to Paul Carmichael by arrangement with Amanda Redd, 650-610-2900. Avistar Communications Corporation Avistar develops, markets and supports video-enabled communications networks, which are helping transform how people collaborate. The Avistar product line includes a seamless, integrated suite of video and data collaboration applications, all managed by Avistar's VOS(TM) video operating system. From a desktop, the system delivers high quality interactive video calling, content creation and publishing, broadcast video, video-on-demand, and integrated data sharing. Based on an open software platform and leveraging video, telephony and Internet networking standards, the Avistar network is scalable, reliable, cost effective, easy to use and designed to evolve with changing technologies. Avistar Communications Corporation is headquartered in Redwood Shores, California Redwood Shores is an upscale and desirable [1] waterfront neighborhood on the San Francisco Peninsula in California. It is located on the eastern edge of Belmont, but is actually part of incorporated Redwood City. , with offices in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Dallas and London. Avistar Systems Corporation and Collaboration Properties, Inc. are wholly owned subsidiaries Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Avistar Communications Corporation. Collaboration Properties develops and holds patents on a wide range of networked video software and hardware. For more information on Avistar, visit www.avistar.com. Forward Looking Statements This news release contains forward-looking statements, including statements concerning product and strategic development plans. Such statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially, including such factors, among others, as the impact of competitive products and pricing, uncertainties relating to production efficiencies and technological approaches and the enforcement of intellectual property rights. Avistar, VOS, the Avistar logo, and Avistar Systems are trademarks or registered trademarks of Avistar Communications Corporation. All other names used are the trademarks of their respective owners. |
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