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Artemis Solutions Group & Microsoft Announce a Settlement in
ASG's BioCert Trademark Dispute
Artemis Solution Group (USA) and Microsoft Corporation jointly
announce they have reached a confidential settlement agreement
resolving a trademark infringement action filed by ASG regarding its
registered trademark, BioCert®.
Freeland, WA (PRWEB) August 15, 2005 -- Artemis Solution Group
(USA)(
http://www.artemis-usa.com ) and Microsoft Corporation jointly
announce they have reached a confidential settlement agreement
resolving a trademark infringement action filed by ASG regarding its
registered trademark, BioCert®.
ASG's intellectual property lawyers, Ken M. Peterson (
http://www.morrislaing.com
) and Jack Baldwin (
http://www.baldwinlaw.com ) announce they are satisfied
Microsoft has proceeded in good faith.
As part of the confidential settlement, ASG will retain its
trademark rights and will dismiss its action against Microsoft.
"Artemis is a key player in the biometric security field," said
David Harnett, of Microsoft. "As an intellectual property company,
we respect the IP rights of others and are pleased to resolve this
matter amicably."
Artemis Solutions Group (
www.artemis-usa.com ) is a global leader in Smart Card and
Biometric security solutions.
ASG's BioCert® Authenticator Toolkit (
www.biocert.us ) has been
helping developers, business managers and software engineers
integrate fingerprint biometric identification within their
applications for well over 3 years. All functions of this applet are
accomplished with a simple "drop-in" module embedded within a
developers application or database.
"Traditional software development kits (SDK) incorporating
biometrics require a substantial amount of programming experience at
a very high level. Our BioCert toolkits are designed to allow users
with very little effort to immediately integrate biometrics within
their custom applications, databases and other business critical
software." - Marc Potvin, BioCert Authenticator Project Manager for
ASG.
The BioCert Authenticator Toolkits are designed to be used as a
drop-in (.ocx) module for use with Visual Basic (VB), VB.net and
Microsoft VB for Applications (MS Office). Business managers and
their internal programmers will easily and efficiently be able to
add biometric authentication to any Excel spreadsheet, Word
document, Outlook Email Client, Access Database or any application
written in VB, FoxPro, C++ or VB.net.
ASG markets a suite of fingerprint biometric products including
home and business door locks, memory clip drives and fingerprint PC
login software under the BioCert label and is continuing to develop
new consumer applications for fingerprint biometric authentication.
Artemis Solutions Group is supporting the Unmet Needs Program
through two of its subsidiaries, BioCert® and BioSaf™. For every
BioCert® Guardian™ fingerprint biometric door lock sold through
www.fingerlock.net or
BioSaf™ INPRINT™ personal biometric safe sold online through
www.biosaf.com during the term
of the partnership, Artemis will donate $10 to the Unmet Needs
Program.
The Unmet Needs Program sponsorship is only the latest example of
Artemis' commitment to support the nation's military personnel. The
Freeland, Washington based company has long been a major corporate
supporter of the Fallen Heroes Fund and other programs designed to
assist troops and their families.
"Our military men and women are making enormous sacrifices in the
name of their fellow Americans," says James Childers - Owner of ASG.
"Regardless of how we feel about the nation’s current military
engagements, our troops and their families here at home deserve our
utmost respect and support."
To find out more about Artemis Solutions visit
www.artemis-usa.com. To
support the Unmet Needs Program through the purchase of selected
BioSaf and BioCert brand biometric security products, visit
www.biosaf.com or
www.fingerlock.net
respectively.
ASG markets a range of computer, software and biometric consumer
products under its properly registered and owned trademarks BioSaf®
and BioCert® through a network of domestic and international
resellers and extensively on the Internet at the following websites:
Press contacts should be directed to:
Artemis Solutions Group
Robyn Stratton
PO Box 403
Freeland, WA 98249
800-519-8800
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