Monday, November 23, 2009

Sendmail and Axway Announce Out-of-Court Settlement of Patent Infringement Disputes

Sendmail, Inc. and Axway have agreed to an out-of-court settlement of their disputes relating to U.S. patents

Emeryville, Calif. and Scottsdale, Ariz. (PRWEB) November 23, 2009 -- Sendmail, Inc. and Axway announced today that they have agreed to an out-of-court settlement of their disputes relating to U.S. patents covering the management of email traffic at an enterprise's gateway, putting an end to the patent infringement suits* both companies filed against each other with the federal district court in San Francisco, Calif. in 2008. The patents involved in the suits included, Axway's Patent Nos. 6,609,196; 7,380,274 and 7,401,356 and Sendmail Patent Nos 6,865,671; 6,968,037 and 7,146,402. The mutually agreed-upon terms of the settlement are confidential.

About Sendmail, Inc.
Sendmail provides appliance-based products, applications and services that enable enterprises and government agencies to modernize their messaging infrastructures. Since 1982, thousands of commercial and open source customers around the globe have relied on Sendmail for a unified approach to the complex problems of policy-based message handling and routing. The company's comprehensive suite of applications addresses the challenges of gateway management, inbound threat protection, data leak prevention, email authentication and intra-company message management. These applications run on Sendmail's family of Sentrion® Message Processors, which are available in hard appliance, virtual appliance and blade server configurations. Sendmail is headquartered in Emeryville, CA with sales and support offices throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia. For more information call 1-87-SENDMAIL.

About Axway
Axway is the Business Interaction Networks company -- the only provider in the market today to manage, run, secure, and monitor all of your business interactions, including email, files, messaging, services, events, and processes. Serving over 11,000 organizations in more than 100 countries, Axway facilitates the multi-enterprise transactions, processes and integration that accelerate business by eliminating the barriers between vendors, customers, departments, partners and suppliers. Axway's comprehensive offerings include business-to-business integration, managed file transfer, secure email, business activity monitoring, enterprise application integration, service-oriented architecture, business process management, track & trace and identity validation solutions. Axway provides professional and managed services, as well as cloud computing and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings. Headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, Axway's global presence spans 20 countries.

*The case numbers associated with the patent infringement suits include 3:08-cv-04318-JCS and 3:08-cv-05542-JCS.

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