Catch Curve Adds DICOM (owner of TOPCALL), FaxBack and RingCentral as New Licensees.ATLANTA -- Catch Curve, Inc., an intellectual property development and licensing firm, today announced that DICOM (medical, standard) DICOM - (From Digital Imaging and COmmunications in Medicine) A standard developed by ACR-NEMA (American College of Radiology - National Electrical Manufacturer's Association) for communications between medical imaging devices. Group (owner of TOPCALL International), FaxBack, Inc. and RingCentral Inc. have each taken licenses to the AudioFAX[TM] patent portfolio. The license with DICOM settles a patent infringement lawsuit, and the license with FaxBack is an enhanced license. Specific terms of the licenses are confidential. The AudioFAX patents cover a broad range of inventions that incorporate fax store-and-forward technologies. These technologies are used in products and services such as fax-to-email, fax broadcasting, fax-on-demand and "real-time" fax over the Internet. Since its inception, the AudioFAX Patent Licensing Program has licensed this technology to over 50 companies, including AT&T, MCI (1) (Media Control Interface) A high-level programming interface from Microsoft and IBM for controlling multimedia devices. It provides commands and functions to open, play and close the device. (2) (Microwave Communications Inc. , Cisco, Sprint, WorldCom, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , Cable & Wireless, 3Com, j2 Global Communications j2 Global Communications (Nasdaq:JCOM) is a company based in Hollywood, California that offers messaging and communications services. Its most popular service is called "eFax", which allows users to send and receive faxes via the Internet. j2 was previously called JFAX. , Mitel, Intervoice, LogicaCMG, Siemens, Premiere Global Services (formerly PTEK PTEK Parents and Teachers of Explosive Kids ), Glenayre, Esker esker, long, narrow, winding ridge of stratified sand-and-gravel drift. Eskers, many miles long and resembling abandoned railway embankments, occur in Scandinavia, Ireland, Scotland, and New England; they arose from deposition of sediment in the beds of streams , Biscom, TOPCALL and Interactive Intelligence, among others. Companies interested in a license to the AudioFAX patents may contact Michael McLaughlin or Ryan Strong of IPinvestments Group at 404-962-8740, or via email at mmclaughlin@ipinvestmentsgroup.com and rstrong@ipinvestmentsgroup.com. About Catch Curve Catch Curve, Inc. is an intellectual property development and licensing company focused on communications and messaging technologies based in Atlanta, Georgia. |
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