Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : PALM - The rebirth of Palm Inc. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SJS who wrote (130)	2/28/2000 7:39:00 PM
From: Captain Jack	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6784

Great timing for this too--- NEW YORK, Feb 28, 2000 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- E-Pass Technologies, Inc. today filed a federal lawsuit against 3COM, Inc. alleging patent infringement by 3Com's Palm Pilot(TM) family of personal digital assistants. The suit was filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Founded by German entrepreneur Hartmut Hennige, E-Pass Technologies is a McLean, Virginia-based developer and marketer of "smart card" technology. According to the company, 3Com's popular Palm Pilot electronic organizers infringe on Hennige's 1994 patent for a multifunction, credit card-sized computer that allows users to securely store a multitude of account numbers, PIN codes, access information and other data from multiple credit cards, check cards, identification cards and similar personal documents. "Not only do 3Com's products utilize the E-Pass patented technology, but 3Com advertises, promotes and sells its products with literature that instructs customers on how to use its products in ways described very specifically and in great detail in the 1994 patent," said Stephen Weiss, an attorney for E-Pass with the New York firm of Moses & Singer. "Our suit today seeks to stop 3Com from willfully infringing on the E-Pass patent and ensure that E-Pass and Mr. Hennige are compensated fairly for 3Com's misappropriation of their intellectual property." Additional information, including copies of the lawsuit and patent, are available by calling Jon Goldberg at 212-704-8115. U.S. Patent No. 5,276,311 - Claim #20 Palm Pilot A device for selecting data The Palm Pilot it used to select from a plurality of data data from a plurality of sources sources such as credit cards, such as phonebook, address book, check cards, customer cards, datebook, to do list, memo pad, identity cards, documents, expense. keys, access information and master keys comprising: An electronic multifunction The Palm Pilot is in the shape of a card, said card having storage "card" and has a non-volatile means for storing a data set memory for storing sets of data for from each of the plurality of each application; the Palm Pilot data sources, said card having also has a display area for at least one display area for displaying the stored data. displaying said stored data set; Input means for producing a The Palm Pilot has input means for secret code; receiving and recognizing characters, including a password; activating means for activating The Palm Pilot is password protected said card for use; and has means to activate the device; processing means responsive to The Palm Pilot is activated in said secret code for enabling response to the password; said activating means; selection means for selecting The Palm Pilot has means for a predetermined one of said selecting one of the applications stored data sets in said which, in turn, accesses a respective activated card; and data set for that application, once the Palm Pilot is activated by the password; and display means for displaying The Palm Pilot displays the accessed said selected data set on the data on the display thereof. card in said display area. SOURCE E-Pass Technologies, Inc. (C) 2000 PR Newswire. All rights reserved. prnewswire.com -0- CONTACT: Jon Goldberg of Edelman Worldwide, 212-704-8115, for E-Pass Technologies, Inc.