General Patent Settles With Telephone Companies On Behalf Of Forward Technologies

General Patent Corporation (GPCI), a leading contingency patent licensing and enforcement firm, announced an important milestone in its patent enforcement campaign, as it recently obtained its 10th settlement. GPCI represented Forward Technologies in all 10 settlement transactions for U.S. Patent No. 4,475,009, for its Method and Device for Remotely Controlling Telephone Call Forwarding.

SUFFERN, NY (PRWEB) October 25, 2004 -- On behalf of Forward Technologies LLC, General Patent Corporation International (GPCI) announced an important milestone in its patent enforcement campaign. GPCI recently obtained the 10th settlement under Forward Technologies U.S. Patent No. 4,475,009, for its Method and Device for Remotely Controlling Telephone Call Forwarding. GPCI, a leading contingency patent licensing and enforcement firm located in Suffern, New York, represented Forward Technologies in all 10 settlement transactions.

Telephone companies who have settled with Forward Technologies to date include Telepacific Communications, Paetec Communications, Valor Telecommunications, Grand River Mutual Telephone, Garden Valley Telephone, Mid-Missouri Telephone, and Melrose Telephone. In addition, Pacific Bell Telephone Company and its parent company, SBC Communications, Inc. (NYSE:SBC), settled earlier this year during the course of a pending patent infringement lawsuit brought by Forward Technologies.

The Remote Call Forwarding technology covered by the subject patent, co-invented by Elliot Rais and Daniel Fogel, pertains to controlling telephone call forwarding from a remote location. This technology is available to subscribers of most telephone companies.

We are pleased to see that the telephone companies are finally recognizing the important contribution of the inventors to the industry," said Paul Lerner, General Counsel of GPCI, and we hope that the rest of the telcos who offer remote call forwarding will respect the intellectual property of Forward Technologies."

About Forward Technologies
Forward Technologies LLC is the owner of United States Patent No. 4,475,009, Method and Device for Remotely Controlling Telephone Call Forwarding," which expired in November of 2001.     For further information on Forward Technologies, contact Kathlene Ingham, GPCIs Director of Licensing, at (845)-368-4000, ext. 107.

About General Patent Corporation International
General Patent Corporation International (GPCI), headquartered in Suffern, NY, is the oldest contingency intellectual property (IP) licensing and enforcement firm in the US.

General Patent Corporation (GPC), an affiliate of GPCI, is a leading international IP management firm. GPC provides IP analysis and strategy, IP audit and valuation, IP portfolio mining and management, and technology transfer services, to both domestic and foreign businesses, universities, research institutions, and individual inventors.

For further information on GPC and GPCI, visit www.patentclaim.com, or contact:
General Patent Corporation
Montebello Park
75 Montebello Road
Suffern NY 10901-3740
phone: (845)-368-4000
email: info@gpci.com

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