Eddie Bauer, Inc. Obtains a License Under the Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing, L.P. Patents28 February 2006
Eddie Bauer, Inc. a leading specialty retailer based in Redmond, Washington, has taken a license under the patent portfolio held by Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing, L.P. and licensed through its affiliate, A2D, L.P.
The license covers services offered by Eddie Bauer in the "Product/Service Support" Field-of-Use. Other terms of the license were not disclosed.
The more than 50 United States patents held by Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing, L.P. cover a wide range of interactive technology including automated forms of: customer service, securities trading, merchandising, prepaid services, telephone conferences, registration, home shopping, as well as functions involved in securing information from databases by telephone, interactive cable transactions, and various other uses of toll free and local numbers. Additional patents are currently pending in this portfolio.
Ronald A. Katz stated, "We welcome Eddie Bauer, Inc. to the significant number of Fortune 500 companies who have purchased license rights under this portfolio."
There are over 150 companies with license rights under this portfolio, including over 15 energy and utility companies. Companies in other industries with license rights under this portfolio include: Advanta Corp., American Century, American Express, Ameritrade Holding Corporation, Automatic Data Processing, Inc., AT&T Corp., Bank of America Corporation, BB&T Corporation, Capital One Services Inc., Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless, Certegy Inc., Dell Inc., Delta Air Lines, Inc., Edward D. Jones & Co., L.P., Equifax Inc., Excel Communications Inc., First Data Corporation, First National Bank of Omaha, First Tennessee National Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Company, Home Shopping Network Inc., Household International, Inc., HSBC Bank USA, International Business Machines (IBM), KeyCorp, MCI Inc., Mediacom Communications Corporation, Mellon Financial Corporation, Merck & Co., Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., Metris Companies Inc., Microsoft, MoneyGram Payment Systems Inc., Nationwide, OppenheimerFunds, Inc., People's Bank, Principal Financial Group, Inc., Prudential Financial, Inc., QVC, Inc., Sears, Roebuck and Co., Shop At Home, Inc., Sprint Corporation, SouthTrust Bank, Sunoco, Inc., Synovus, The Gallup Organization, T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., The Vanguard Group, Inc., Verizon California Inc. and its affiliates, Wachovia Corporation, and Wells Fargo & Company.
Mr. Katz is the named inventor on a large number of patents primarily in the fields of telecommunications and computing. He also formed Telecredit, Inc., the nation's first on-line real time credit and check cashing authorization system, and was awarded a patent as co-inventor of that technology.
A leading tri-channel specialty retailer, Eddie Bauer, Inc. offers distinctive clothing and accessories and home furnishings for men and women that reflect a modern interpretation of the company's unique outdoor heritage. Emphasizing classic styles, Eddie Bauer offers versatile, comfortable, high-quality merchandise through its two retailing concepts: Eddie Bauer and Eddie Bauer Home. In its 85-year history, Eddie Bauer has evolved from a single store in Seattle to a tri-channel, international company with more than 400 stores, 95 million catalogs distributed annually and online Web sites: eddiebauer.com, eddiebauerhome.com and eddiebaueroutlet.com. Eddie Bauer operates stores in the U.S. and Canada, and through joint venture partnerships in Germany and Japan.
Source: prnewswire
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