(Redwood Shores, CALIF., September 23, 2003) – Visto Corporation (www.visto.com), the leading provider of personal and corporate mobile access solutions that are easy to install, administer and use, today announced that it has filed complaints alleging patent infringement against Infowave Software, Inc. (IW on the Toronto Stock Exchange) and Seven Networks, Inc. of Redwood City, CA. The complaints, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, will also ask for preliminary and permanent injunctions prohibiting Infowave and Seven from continuing to misappropriate Visto’s intellectual property. Visto will also be seeking monetary damages as compensation for Infowave’s and Seven’s illegal actions.
“Visto has spent seven years and nearly $100 million dollars researching, developing and patenting technologies that are key to the secure synchronization of data within networks, and which are vital to Visto’s industry-leading solutions for data mobility. We believe that Infowave and Seven have built significant portions of their businesses on unauthorized use of our patents, with absolutely no patents of their own,” said Brian Bogosian, chairman, president and CEO. “Visto has the resources and the will to see that all illegal uses of our technologies are stopped,” he said.
Specifically, Visto is alleging that Infowave is violating Visto patent no. 5,961,590, which relates to the system and method for synchronizing email. Visto’s claims against Seven reference two Visto patents, nos. 6,085,192 and 6,023,708, which describe systems and methods for securely synchronizing multiple copies of a workspace element in a network, and the use of a global translator to synchronize workspace elements across a network.
About Visto Corporation
Established in 1996, Visto is the leading provider of wireless messaging
solutions to mobile operators for personal and corporate use. Visto’s
technology provides secure access to the most widely used corporate
applications over any network and on a broad array of devices, and
supports both browser-based as well as offline-capable devices.
Visto Mobile Access Solution, Server Edition, provides departmental
and enterprise access to corporate email. Visto MessageXpress provides
individual access to corporate, Internet and POP3 email. Both Server
Edition and MessageXpress are well suited to the “converged”
wireless PDAs/phones using Palm OS, Pocket PC, SmartPhone, J2ME
and Symbian platforms. Visto’s WirelessInbox, provides real
time access to corporate and personal email via direct access through
desktop computers via any wireless device’s browser and is
well suited to wireless phones with only WAP browser capability.
Leveraging a portfolio of eight granted patents in synchronization,
access and security technologies, Visto’s platform is a proven,
scalable solution that has supported more than 2.7 million users.
Visto’s solutions are available through wireless operators
worldwide, including AT&T Wireless, Bell Mobility, KPN, Manitoba
Telecom Services, Nextel Communications, Inc., Rogers AT&T Wireless,
SaskTel Mobility, SmarTone and TELUS Mobility. http://www.visto.com