10th Feb 2010 12:18
Emblaze Ltd ('Emblaze' or 'the Company') EMBLAZE NOTIFIES MICROSOFT OF INFRINGEMENT OF EMBLAZE PATENT
Ra'anana, Israel, 10 February 2010: Emblaze Ltd. has notified Microsoft Corporation ("Microsoft") that Microsoft's IIS Smooth Streaming system infringes Emblaze's U.S. patent for media streaming technology.
Emblaze has been developing media streaming technology for over a decade and first unveiled its technology to the public in a live video streaming broadcast from the White House during Easter, 1998.
Emblaze's Live Streaming technology allows users to send live or pre-recorded audio and video to other devices, saves on data traffic, does not require devoted streaming servers, and allows reliable streaming even through firewalls. This technology will be used in the First ELSEâ„¢, a new mobile device recently unveiled by ELSEâ„¢ Ltd., an Emblaze subsidiary.
Emblaze's notice to Microsoft includes an offer to license Microsoft under Emblaze's patented technology. The notice requires Microsoft to respond by 15 March, 2010.
This notice to Microsoft follows an Emblaze notice to Apple Inc. ("Apple") that the same patent is infringed by Apple's HTTP Live Streaming Application intended for use in Apple's iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad devices as well as in Apple's Mac OS X Snow Leopard operating system. The notice to Apple also offered a license under Emblaze's technology.
Naftali Shani, Chairman of Emblaze, said: "Emblaze has made substantial investment into research and development to build a rich portfolio of intellectual property over many years. While we are happy to license our technology to third parties, we will vigorously defend our rights and our competitive position".
Enquiries: Jonathan Shillington, Alistair Scott +44 (0) 20 7932 1850Grayling About Emblaze
Emblaze Ltd is a group of technology companies addressing both growth and innovation activities thus combining the stability of "bread and butter" mature technology enterprises with "high-risk / high-reward" investments in innovation.
Our Growth arm includes Formula Systems , which harbors the following subsidiaries: Magic Software Enterprises Ltd. develops, markets and supports composite application development and deployment platforms with a service-oriented architecture (SOA), including application integration and business process management (BPM), with existing and legacy systems; Matrix IT Ltd. (TASE: MTRX) is one of Israel's leading integration and information technology services companies, active in four principal areas: software solutions and services, software products, infrastructure solutions and hardware products, and training and assimilation.; Sapiens International Corporation N.V. is a provider of IT solutions that modernize business processes to enable insurance and other companies to quickly adapt to changes.
Our Innovation arm includes ELSE Ltd. (formerly Emblaze Mobile), a design house for cutting-edge mobile technology; EMOZE, a provider of Push Email and synchronisation technology for mobile devices; and ZONE-IP (Emblaze V CON), a provider of wireless video communications technologies and conferencing solutions for operators and enterprise markets over IP networks.
The Emblaze Group is traded on the London Stock Exchange since 1996. www.Emblaze.com
IIS Smooth Streaming is a proprietary name of Microsoft Corporation
Apple, iPhone and iPod Touch, iPad and Mac OS X Snow Leopard are proprietary names of Apple Inc
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