Dictaphone Corp. Agrees to Settle Patent Infringement Claims Against Competitor.STRATFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 11, 1999-- Dictaphone Corporation today said it has settled a patent infringement patent infringement n. the manufacture and/or use of an invention or improvement for which someone else owns a patent issued by the government, without obtaining permission of the owner of the patent by contract, license or waiver. lawsuit which it brought against Digital Voice, Inc. ("DVI (1) (Digital Video Interactive) An earlier compression technique that provided up to 72 minutes of full-screen video on a CD-ROM. Acquired by Intel in 1988 from RCA's Sarnoff Research labs, Princeton, NJ, DVI never caught on. ") of Joplin, MO in 1998. The settlement is for an undisclosed amount and includes the agreement of DVI to take a license in certain Dictaphone patents. "We are very pleased with this settlement," said Daniel P. Hart, senior vice president and general counsel for Dictaphone. "The agreement clearly underlines out intent to aggressively protect our considerable investments in research and development and intellectual property." Dictaphone Corporation of Stratford, Conn., is a leader in the development, manufacture, marketing, service and support of Integrated Voice and Data Management systems and software, which include dictation, voice processing The computerized handling of voice, which includes voice store and forward, voice response, voice recognition and text to speech technologies. , voice response, unified messaging Having access to e-mail, voice mail and faxes via a common computer application or by telephone. For example, unified messaging may send faxes and digitized voice mail to a mail server that turns them into e-mail attachments. , record management and communications recording systems. |
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