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Energy East Corporation Obtains a License Under the Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing, L.P. Patents

Posted on: Monday, 14 February 2005, 06:00 CST

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Energy East Corporation , based in Albany, New York and its subsidiaries, have taken a license under the patent portfolio held by Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing, L.P. and licensed through A2D, L.P.

The license covers services offered by Energy East in the "Energy and Utility Services" Field-of-Use. These services, including customer service provided to consumer and business accounts, are delivered through automated systems as well as the combination of automated systems and live agents. Other terms of the license were not disclosed.

The 52 United States patents held by Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing, L.P., and numerous foreign equivalents, cover a wide range of interactive technology including automated forms of: customer service, securities trading, merchandising, prepaid services, telephone conferences, registration, 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. Seventeen additional patents are currently pending in this portfolio.

Energy East stated it was pleased to have reached this agreement.

Ronald A. Katz, chief executive of Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing, L.P. added, "We are very pleased to welcome Energy East Corp. to the significant list of energy and utility companies who have purchased license rights under this portfolio."

There are well over 100 companies with license rights under this portfolio, including energy and utility companies such as: Allegheny Power, Constellation Energy Group, Inc., FirstEnergy Corporation, Florida Power & Light Company, Illinois Power Company, National Grid USA, Nicor Inc., NSTAR Electric & Gas Corp., Pinnacle West Capital Corporation, Portland General Electric Company, Puget Sound Energy, Inc., Questar, Southern California Edison Company, Tampa Electric Company, and Wisconsin Energy Corporation.

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., Fiserv 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., 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 numerous patents primarily in the fields of telecommunications and computing. He 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.

Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing, L.P./A2D, L.P.

CONTACT: Brian Rivette of Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing, L.P./A2D,L.P., +1-310-247-8191, brivette@a2dlp.com

Source: PRNewswire

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