Boca Raton, Florida Patent Holder Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against InfoUSA, Inc.
Florida: Boca Raton Patent Holder Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against InfoUSA, Inc.
Boca Raton patent holder, Perfect Web Technologies, Inc. filed a patent infringement lawsuit against infoUSA, Inc. of Omaha , NE in the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida according to a press release I received today. The infringement lawsuit seeks damages and an injunction against further infringement.
The patent asserted in the lawsuit is U.S. Patent No. 6,631,400 entitled "METHOD FOR MANAGING BULK E-MAIL DISTRIBUTION" and protects key elements of processes used in the e-mail marketing and management industry.
A copy of the patent infringement complaint is available online.
The complete press release follows below:
INFOUSA SUED for Patent Infringement
Boca Raton, FL March 29, 2007 --- Perfect Web Technologies, Inc. (Pink
Sheets: PWBI) filed a patent infringement action against infoUSA, Inc.
(NASDAQ:IUSA) of Omaha , NE in the US District Court for the Southern
District of Florida. The infringement lawsuit seeks damages and an
injunction against further infringement.
The suit seeks to enforce Patent 6,631,400, issued by the US Patent Office
to Thomas L. DiStefano, III, Chairman and CEO, on October 7th 2003. The
patent entitled *"METHOD FOR MANAGING BULK E-MAIL DISTRIBUTION" *protects
key elements of processes used in the e-mail marketing and management
industry.
The suit brought by Perfect Web Technologies alleges intentional violation
of the patent by infoUSA. According to public sources, infoUSA maintains
databases of e-mail addresses and other customer data on approximately 210
million consumers and 14 million businesses. infoUSA transmits significant
amounts of bulk e-mail via the Internet through its Donnelley division and
owned companies like YesMail, ePostDirect, @Once and Digital Connexxions.
According to Thomas L. DiStefano, III, Chairman and CEO of Perfect Web
Technologies, "This litigation is a fundamental case of protecting the
valuable intellectual property we have developed for the future of the
e-mail marketing and management industry. With notice of our rights, infoUSA
knowingly took and has continued to use our valuable inventions throughout a
wide variety of their business operations and subsidiaries. In effect, they
are trying to get away with using our inventions everyday to enrich
themselves without appropriate acknowledgement or compensation. While we
acknowledge that infoUSA has built a sizeable presence in the industry, it
has done so unfairly by utilizing our patented technology without
authorization. We are therefore asking the court system to enforce the
patent on our inventions and remedy this blatant case of infringement." In
their most recent SEC filings infoUSA reported over $486 million in gross
revenue.