Fax ’store and forward’ technologies are the subject of a patent ...
Fax “store and forward” technologies are the subject of a patent infringement suit by IP development and licensing firm Catch Curve against French firm Esker in U.S. Dist. Court, Atlanta. The plaintiff said Esker violated Catch Curve’s AudioFax patents,…
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which cover fax-to-e-mail, fax broadcasting, fax-on-demand and “real time” fax over the Internet. Catch Curve wants monetary damages for past infringement and preliminary and permanent injunctions. Esker, which has a U.S. subsidiary, sued Catch Curve days before in U.S. Dist. Court, Madison, Wis., after licensing talks broke down; Catch Curve portrayed its suit as a defensive measure. More than 1/3 of Esker fiscal year 2004 sales involve products and services related to the AudioFax patents, and more than half of Esker’s sales were in the U.S., Catch Curve said. Its patents have been licensed to companies such as AT&T, Cable & Wireless, Cisco, NEC, Send2Fax and Siemens, it said.