NEC and Klausner Technologies Resolve Patent Litigation

NEC Corporation (TSE:6701) has just entered into a worldwide patent license agreement with Klausner Technologies, Inc., under the Klausner Visual Voicemail patents, for NEC’s enterprise voicemail products. NEC is now licensed under Klausner’s U.S. Canadian, European, Japanese, Korean, and Taiwanese patents to provide enterprise users the ability to visually identify and selectively retrieve voice messages.

The new license with NEC brings Klausner Technologies’ total number of Visual Voicemail patent licensees under its U.S. and foreign patents to 38. Licensees include international mobile operators, cell phone manufacturers, cable/VOIP providers, providers of OTT Visual Voicemail products as well as providers of Visual Voicemail products and services for the enterprise market.

NEC has been dismissed with prejudice from the ongoing case (Klausner Technologies, Inc. v. Alcatel-Lucent, et. al, Case No. 6-11-cv-231) pending in Federal Court in the Eastern District of Texas. Remaining defendants in the lawsuit include Toshiba Corporation (TSE:6502) and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd (KS:005930). Klausner is being represented by the California law firm of Dovel & Luner.

About Klausner Technologies, Inc.: Klausner Technologies was founded by Judah Klausner, inventor of the PDA and electronic organizer. It owns a catalogue of 25 Visual Voicemail patents, in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Taiwan, Korea and Japan covering the basic Visual Voicemail feature in which users can selectively view and listen to their voice messages via their mobile phones or computers.

Visual Voicemail Patent Licensing Information: patentlicensing@klausnertechnologies.com