eSoft Files Patent Infringement Lawsuits Against Five Companies

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via eSoft.

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eSoft, Inc., a leading vendor of integrated Internet security and content management solutions, announced today that it 
has filed patent infringement lawsuits in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado against Astaro 
Corporation, Barracuda Networks, Blue Coat, Fortinet and SonicWall for the infringement of U.S. Patent No. 6,961,773 
relating to software management technology.

Titled "System and Method for Managing Application Service Providers," the patent is directed to software management 
systems and, more particularly, to systems and methods for selecting, ordering, installing, managing, updating, and if 
necessary, uninstalling software applications provided to an entity by one or more application service providers or 
other sources. eSoft was awarded the patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on November 1, 2005.

eSoft is seeking to stop the companies from marketing, selling, using or otherwise infringing the patent and also seeks 
damages relating to their unauthorized use of eSoft's patented technology.

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http://www.esoft.com/company/press_detail1.cfm?ID=102

- ferg


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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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