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This company, variously called Elync Ltd, then Semafone Ltd and then Elync Ltd again, submitted the three patent applications between May 2008 and May 2009 that ultimately led to the granting of the patents in the UK and US that Sycurio alleges PCIP infringed. Elync assigned the rights to these applications to Semafone Ltd (now Sycurio) between mid-July and mid-November 2009.
Elync was set up in 2003 by Richard Cooper-Davis and David Jackson, co-founders of Semafone/Sycurio and two of the named inventors on the allegedly infringed US and UK patents . They were its only directors. Cooper-Davis owned 60% and Jackson 40%. Half of Jackson’s stake was owned by an offshore company in a tax haven, according to records at Companies House. The ownership structure mirrored that of Foxbay Ltd, another company Cooper-Davis and Jackson had set up, through which, as from early 2003, they ultimately controlled Careline Services (see previous posts about Careline Services).
In Elync’s accounts, Cooper-Davis and Jackson described Elync’s principal activities as the “provision of web-based services to the education sector and consulting services for web-based products”.
From incorporation in mid-2003 to the end of December 2006, Elync incurred about £87,000 of expenses, and had virtually no third-party sales. In 2006 it recouped most of these accumulated expenses by charging Foxbay £85,000 for consultancy services.
In the calendar years 2007 and 2008 the consultancy services charged to Foxbay increased dramatically: to £105,730 in 2007 and £335,000 in 2008, a period which must have coincided with Elync’s development of the patent applications. (No consultancy services were charged to Foxbay in 2009). Nearly all the money received by Elync from Foxbay was spent. When Cooper-Davis and Jackson put Elync into voluntary liquidation in November 2010 it had, according to records at Companies House, just £17,275 in the bank and no other assets.
Foxbay derived its income from an annual management charge levied on Careline Services and from its share of dividends paid by Careline Services’ immediate holding company. Cooper-Davies and Jackson took minimal directors’ payment from Foxbay, instead paying large dividends to themselves. This would almost certainly have been because it would have been more tax efficient for them personally, and it also would have avoided employer’s national insurance that Foxbay would otherwise have had to have paid on any qualifying directors’ remuneration. For tax reasons, it is therefore highly unlikely that Elync would have paid out any of the money it received from Foxbay to Cooper-Davis and Jackson as directors’ pay.
(More to follow)
Victor,
Fascinating that Penn worked at the Post Office on PCI compliance across “all payment channels” and that Careline Services had Post Office Financial Services as a customer. They presumably came across each other!
Lucretuis
Great research again.
Couple of bits of interest
Connie G. Penn ( LINKEDIN )
PCI DSS Subject Matter Expert
Post Office Ltd
May 2007 - Mar 2012 4 years 11 months
I managed the programme to achieve PCI compliance at Post Office. This included initially evaluating the status of compliance & gaps with PCI DSS across all payment channels, including the Internet & call centres at Royal Mail, delivering PCI DSS Compliance for 30,411 Points of Sale across 11,000+ Post Office branches December 2010. Post Office was the first to use encryption to de-scope the PoS and reduce the CDE. With 30,411 points of sale to protect amid the financial crisis in 2008
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Careline Services
Careline is a trusted supplier of multi-channel customer and
prospect management services to some of the UK’s most
reputable brands including
Post Office Financial Services
https://web.archive.org/web/20120216160811/http://www.careline-services.co.uk/downloads/careline-brochure.pdf
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Careline Services
Delivery Partners
Eckoh Technologies
Eckoh Technologies
Eckoh designs, builds, hosts and manages automated and speech solutions on behalf of CSL and our clients using advanced IVR and speech recognition technologies.
https://web.archive.org/web/20070818224646/http://www.careline-services.co.uk/delivery_partners.asp
Home page
https://web.archive.org/web/20060831081611/http://www.careline-services.co.uk/
2. Please describe with specificity and detail about each aspects of the Asserted Patents and the UK Patent that you believe were novel as of May 9 2008.
And to produce the following:
1. Documents reflecting or relating to your assignment of the transfer of ownership in the Asserted Patents and the UK Patent
2. Documents relating to the conception, development and reduction to practice, or testing of any subject matter described or claimed in in the Asserted Patents or the UK Patent, including but not limited to design notes, technical aspects, drawings or schematics.
3. Communications, documentations, descriptions, statements, disclosures, or drawings covering the subject matter claimed in the Asserted Patents or UK Patent that were made or prepared before 30th September 2008.
4. Documents reflecting any work performed by you to develop Sycurio.Voice (previously Semafone Cardprotect. Voice+).
The depositions should be very interesting. Nobody could accuse the US lawyers of not doing a thorough job.
16th July 2009: a new company called Semafone Ltd was incorporated.
16th July 2009: Semafone Ltd issued founder shares to Cooper-Davis and Jackson. (Three employees of Careline Services, who had a small equity stake in the holding company through which Cooper-Davis and Jackson controlled Careline Services, were also issued shares In Semafone. Two are mentioned in this article https://wearetechwomen.com/inspirational-woman-megan-neale-co-founder-limitless/).
10th September 2009: the patent applications of 9th May 2008 and 30th September 2008 were terminated.
21st October 2009: Timothy Critchley, one of the name inventors on the disputed US patents but the only named inventor not to be deposed by PCIP’s US lawyers, was appointed a director of Semafone and became its CEO.
28th October 2009: Jackson appointed a director of Semafone.
17th November 2009: By this date Elync Ltd (previously Semafone Ltd, previously Elync Ltd) had transferred rights in the patent applications to Semafone Ltd (the one incorporated on 16th July 2009). (Source: https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/docs2/pct/WO2009136163/pdf/mSqm53U3abTC7Bk8tTrxtmJUZuH6CWQHUaaYTC0Qrrw). The precise date of the transfer was not revealed but must have been after 16th July 2009.
11th January 2010: Cooper-Davis appointed a director of Semafone.
21st June 2010: Careline Services sold to HTMT Europe Ltd, a subsidiary of the Hinduja Global Solutions, for approximately £10m (source: accounts of HTMT Europe Ltd for the year to 31st Mar h 2011). (See this [inaccurate] PR guff from Arrowpoint, who acted for Cooper-Davis and Jackson, about the sale: https://www.arrowpointadvisory.com/our-transactions/careline-services-has-been-acquired-by-hinduja-global-solutions/)
21st June 2010: Cooper-Davis and Jackson resigned as directors of Careline Services
21st June 2010: Cooper-Davis and Jackson put the companies through which they controlled Careline Services into voluntary (ie, solvent) liquidation.
5th November 2010: Cooper-Davis and Jackson put Elync Ltd into voluntary (ie, solvent) liquidation.
In addition to their knowledge of the involvement of Ultra Communications and Cardline Services in design and development of the call processor that would become Sycurio.Voice, PCIP’s lawyers want to depose Davis-Cooper and Jackson (and one of the other named inventors) about these topics:
1. Please describe with specificity and detail the circumstances of your assignment of ownership in the Asserted Patents [ie, the disputed US Patents) and UK Patent No. GB2,473,376 (“the UK Patent”) (including any patent applications leading thereto ) to Sycurio/Semafone, including but not limited to when the assignment was made, why the assignment was made, specifically to who the assignment was made and the amount of compensation you received for such assignment
(More to follow)
Victor
That is great. A clear link between Ultra Communications and Careline Services: the latter was a client of the former, at least in 2008.
Just to recap. We know from the accounts of Ultra Communications for the year to 30th June 2010 that : “…our development team has turned its attention towards developing a full PCI standard solution which we expect will be the most secure system available to handle the taking of debit and credit card payments over the phone. We expect to be able to offer the facility to existing clients in the first quarter of 2011”.
Careline Services, a contact-centre business, was co-founded in 1997 by Richard Cooper-Davis and David Jackson, the co-founders of Semafone and two of the named inventors in the disputed US patents. They owned a majority of the Careline Services from January 2003, and ran it from 1997 until they sold it in June 2010. A profile of Jackson states that while at Careline Services “he identified the need for enhanced security in the processing of sensitive data which led to the formation of Semafone.” https://people.equilar.com/bio/david-jackson-semafone/30008712
By putting together chronologically the pieces that are in the public domain it is apparent why PCIP’s US lawyers want to depose Cooper-Davis and Jackson under oath (and compel them to produce documents) about who the inventors of the disputed US and UK patents were. And in particular about details of their knowledge “of the involvement of Ultra Communications [and Careline Services] with the design and development of the call processor that would become Sycurio.Voice (previously SemafoneCardprotcet Voice +)” See https://workswith.worldpay.com/en/apps/14327/cardprotect-from-semafone
Chronology:
4th January 2008: Press release from Ultra Communications, cited by PCIP in US court papers as a prior art reference that “it believes anticipates and/or renders obvious the Asserted Claims [in the US patents]”.
9th May 2008: Elync Ltd, a company controlled by Cooper-Davis & Jackson, by request under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (a means of protecting patent international rights) applied for a patent for “A secure communication system and means of operating the same”. The request runs to 25 pages.
16th July 2008: Elync Ltd changed its name to Semafone Ltd.
30th September 2008: Semafone Ltd by request under the Patent Cooperation Treaty applied for a patent for “A secure communication system and means of operating the same”. The request runs to 49 pages and claims priority to Elync’s application on 9th May 2008.
9th May 2009: Semafone Ltd by request under the Patent Cooperation Treaty applied for a patent for “Signal detection and blocking or voice processing equipment”. This application claims priority to the two previous applications and is the application that enters the national phases of the patent applications in the US and UK.
27th June 2009: Semafone Ltd changed its name
Lucretuis
One year after the Ultra license agreement. This was filed
Telephone call processing
GB2533139A
Case Details
Application Number GB1422064.4
Application Source Form 1
Publication Number GB2533139
Status Terminated before grant
Filing Date 11 December 2014
Publication Date 15 June 2016
Not In Force Date 13 October 2021
Application Title Telephone call processing
Address for Service BOULT WADE TENNANT LLP
Salisbury Square House
8 Salisbury Square
LONDON
EC4Y 8AP
United Kingdom
[ADP Number 12269312001]
Applicant / Proprietor ULTRA COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED
The Granary
Cams Hall Estate
FAREHAM
Hampshire
PO26 8UT
United Kingdom
[ADP Number 11189859002]
Inventors CRAIG SHILLING, ULTRA COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED
The Granary
Cams Hall Estate
FAREHAM
Hampshire
PO26 8UT
United Kingdom
[ADP Number 11354339001]
TOM DAVIES, ULTRA COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED
The Granary
Cams Hall Estate
FAREHAM
Hampshire
PO26 8UT
United Kingdom
[ADP Number 11354347001]
DARREN SULLIVAN, ULTRA COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED
The Granary
Cams Hall Estate
FAREHAM
Hampshire
PO26 8UT
United Kingdom
[ADP Number 11354354001]
JAMES SUMNER, ULTRA COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED
The Granary
Cams Hall Estate
FAREHAM
Hampshire
PO26 8UT
United Kingdom
[ADP Number 11354370001]
ROBERT WRAY, ULTRA COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED
The Granary
Cams Hall Estate
FAREHAM
Hampshire
PO26 8UT
United Kingdom
[ADP Number 11354388001]
ROBERT BATES, ULTRA COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED
The Granary
Cams Hall Estate
FAREHAM
Hampshire
PO26 8UT
United Kingdom
[ADP Number 11354396001]
https://www.ipo.gov.uk/p-ipsum/Case/PublicationNumber/GB2533139
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Telephone Call Processing
US20170332153A1
Status
Abandoned
https://patents.google.com/patent/US20170332153A1/en?oq=gb2533139
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Telephone call processing
EP3231165B1
Status
Not-in-force
https://patents.google.com/patent/EP3231165B1/en?oq=gb2533139
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Telephone call processing
WO2016092320A1
2016-06-16
Publication of WO2016092320A1
https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2016092320A1/en?oq=gb2533139
Lucretuis
Managed to find the Ultra Communications site 2008
The Press Release could be the Newsletter
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One of Ultra's Clients
Careline Services
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This is what's on the News, tab
New office for Ultra Communications
Ultra are pleased to announce their move into their new head office in Hampshire.
This will be the new home for our teams and we will be inviting our clients and contacts to visit over the coming months to meet the staff and see the operation in full.
New client AMF Connect joins Ultra
Entrepreneur Phil Foster and his company AMF Connect has joined Ultra. AMF are a specialised lead provider in the finance industry and were looking for an industry leading Predictive dialler without a massive capital outlay.
AMF has already expanded and doubled in size using the Ultra systems and now uses Ultra’s inbound, call blending and call transfer solutions in addition to the predictive dialling, within their centre.
Phil has already introduced another client to Ultra and quoted: ‘You do not need to look anywhere else, I have done the research and they are the best that you can find in comparison to any other dialler’ – Phil Foster MD AMF.
Ultra is pleased to be working in partnership with AMF Connect and welcomes them.
https://web.archive.org/web/20080828221254/http://www.ultraasp.net/Default.aspx
Victor,
Unfortunately, I have not been able to find the press release from January 2008.
Regarding the expert report from the Eckoh case, definitely an example of the Penn not being mightier than the sword.
Hope this link works
BABBLE CLOUD (UC) LIMITED
23 Apr 2009 Full accounts made up to 30 June 2008
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/05043644/filing-history?page=3
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Amazing, the amount of pages for an "Expert Report" for the Eckoh case. Not exactly Dentons
Non-Patent Citations (17)
"Expert Report of Concepta Gabrielle Penn on Behalf of the Claimant", Semafone, Claimant, and Eckoh PLC, Eckoh UK Limited and Whitbread Group PLC, Defendants, (Dec. 23, 2014), 56 pgs.
"Expert Report of Concepta Gabrielle Penn on Behalf of the Claimant", Semafone, Claimant, and Eckoh PLC, Eckoh UK Limited and Whitbread Group PLC, Defendants, (Feb. 6, 2015), 36 pgs.
"Further Reply Report of Concepta Gabrielle Penn on Behalf of the Claimant", Semafone, Claimant, and Eckoh PLC, Eckoh UK Limited and Whitbread Group PLC, Defendants, (Mar. 9, 2015), 5 pgs.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US9858573B2/en?assignee=semafone&oq=semafone
Lucretuis
Thanks, for the great research and putting everything in order, and answering NoCheddar's question.
No luck finding the press release. You must have seen this?
23 Apr 2009 Full accounts made up to 30 June 2008
https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/document-api-images-live.ch.gov.uk/docs/Mtcm1tb_xw-m91s6wZ6P73jo0SKlK5e2KGvfTRxZCus/application-pdf?X-Amz
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Ultra Communications
Wayback machine, March 2014 is the first capture
https://web.archive.org/web/20140302201620/http://ultracomms.com/
Media Coverage
Some articles that may add some colour
Publication: CallCentreHelper.com
Title of article: 'Technology Toolkit – PCI compliant card payment handling'
Author: Michael Gray, Ultra Communications
Publication: CCR Magazine
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Title of article: 'Does Your Dialler Guarantee Compliance?'
Author: Darren Sullivan, Ultra Communications
Publication: CCR Magazine
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Title of article: 'The Perfect Collections Call'
Author: Robert Bates, Ultra Communications
Publication: Comms Dealer
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Title of article: ‘Ultra Adds Value to Cloud Service’
Author: Editorial
Publication: CCR Magazine
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Title of article: ‘New ContactBabel Report Reveals Growing Interest in Cloud Contact Centre Services’
Author: Editorial
Publication: Contact-centres.com
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Title of article: ‘Ultra Communications - On Cloud Nine with Strong Growth in Revenues’
Author: Editorial
Publication: The UK Contact Centre Decision-Makers' Guide
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Title of article: ‘Getting More from Legacy Systems Using Cloud Services’
Author: Michael Gray, Ultra Communications
Publication: The Inner Circle Guide to Cloud-Based Contact Centre Solutions
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Title of article: ‘Can your Cloud Partner Monitor Performance in Real Time?’
Author: Michael Gray, Ultra Communications
Publication: Realex Payments
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Title of article: ‘Ultra and Realex Payments Team-up to Showcase Live Cloud Contact Centre’
Author: Editorial
Publication: Government Technology
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Title of article: ‘The Cloud – The Future for Customer Service?’
Author: Robert Bates, Ultra Communications
Publication: Contact Center World
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Title of article: ‘Ultra Communications Strengthens its Cloud Contact Centre Team’
Author: Editorial
Publication: Credit, Collections & Risk
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Title of article: ‘The Cloud – The Future for Diallers?’
Author: Robert Bates, Ultra Communications
Publication: Sunday Telegraph
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Title of article: ‘Sky’s The Limit’
Author: Robert Bates, Ultra Communications
Publication: Paymenteye
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Title of article: ‘Realex Payments Partner with Ultra Communications’
Author: Editorial
https://web.archive.org/web/20140516150952/http://www.ultracomms.com/Press/MediaCoverage.aspx
According to the US court document, among the topics the three inventors will face questions on are:
1. Details of their knowledge of and involvement in the licence agreement with Ultra Communications.
2. Why Sycurio agreed to the terms in the licence agreement with Ultra Communications.
3. Details of their knowledge “of the involvement of Ultra Communications with the with the design and development of the call processor that would become Sycurio.Voice (previously SemafoneCradprotcet Voice +)” See https://workswith.worldpay.com/en/apps/14327/cardprotect-from-semafone
It is worth noting that PCIP says in the 15th June document that Sycurio "despite repeated requests has failed to produce dscovery relating to this issue."
There is also an interesting reference in the 15th June document (page 6) to a press release dated 4th January 2008? Victor, have you managed to find this?
More to follow over the weekend on Careline & the complicated corporate dealings of Jackson & Cooper-Davis in the early days of Semafone Mark 1 amd Mark 2, on which they will also face questions from PCIP’s US legal hounds.
Victor,
I had been looking into the part of Annex A dated 15th June. This sets out in some detail why PCIP thinks that Sycurio’s US patents are invalid. One claimed ground of invalidity is that the core technology in the patents was invented by people other than the named inventors (Andrew Tew, David Jackson, Richard Cooper-Davis and Timothy Critchley, all former employees of Sycurio).
PCIP claims on “information and belief” that the core technology in the US patents was developed by individuals--associated with Ultra Communications and Careline, both British companies--who are not named on the patent. And, apparently, a US patent may be declared invalid if more or less than the true inventors are named.
According to documents at Companies House, Sycurio signed a licence agreement with Ultra Communications, which was a provider of network telephony services, for Sycurio’s UK patent in 2013.
In Ultra Communications accounts for the year to 30th June 2010, the directors stated: “…our development team has turned its attention towards developing a full PCI standard solution which we expect will be the most secure system available to handle the taking of debit and credit card payments over the phone. We expect to be able to offer the facility to existing clients in the first quarter of 2011.”
And in the following year’s accounts (to 30 June 2011): “Since the first quarter of 2011 we have been able to offer existing clients a full PCI standard solution. It appears that we are one of two suppliers in the UK offering a completely secure payment system to handle the taking of debit and credit card systems over the phone. Recent market research has shown that Ultra clients pay 70% less for PCI compliance versus non-Ultra clients”.
The UK Patent Office published Sycurio’s patent application in March 2011; the patent was granted in May 2012. The disclosures in Ultra Communications’ accounts about its own PCI solution begs the questions of why Ultra needed to license Sycurio’s technology in 2013. Perhaps Sycurio used threats of patent infringement proceedings. Or perhaps the legal threats were from Ultra Communications (ie, you have partly patented our technology: grant us a licence or we sue). If the latter is true, then the terms of the licence agreement with Ultra Communications could be very revealing.
PCIP’s US lawyers now have the US Court’s permission to depose in the UK for up to three hours three of the named inventors on the US patents (Tew, Jackson & Cooper-Davis). And to compel them to disclose relevant documents.
(More to follow)
Thanks Victor.
"Three of the four inventors of Sycurio's patent (see my post below) have a request for production of documents and a list of questions. The purpose of the depositions is to obtain evidence that is relevant to the patties' claims"
Are the three inventors bring a request separate from PCIP? Are they bringing it against Sycurio or PCIP?
Cheers!
Hi NoCheddar
Three of the four inventors of Sycurio's patent (see my post below) have a request for production of documents and a list of questions. The purpose of the depositions is to obtain evidence that is relevant to the patties' claims
and defenses in the North Carolina Action.
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Vladimir Jirasek, has from today disappeared from the Sycurio leadership page
https://sycurio.com/people/vladimir-jirasek
Senior leadership team.
https://sycurio.com/about/executive
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From the wayback machine
Vladimir Jirasek
Vlad has a wealth of knowledge and experience in cyber security, information technology, and digital transformation. He has led and advised on security and compliance initiatives across many industry sectors and worked at leading brands including WorldPay, Tesco, Dixons and T-Mobile - using his expertise to ensure organizations closely align their technology stack with their business strategies.
As Founder & CEO of Foresight Cyber Ltd, he has created and leads a powerful and agile technology team that designs and builds practical in-house solutions that deliver a wide range of cyber services to financial institutions, national critical infrastructure agencies, manufacturing and R&D enterprises.
An accomplished public speaker, author and book editor, Vlad is also a CISSP, CCSP, a Fellow of the British Computer Society and Cloud Security Alliance UK co-chair. He has an MSc in IT and Business Administration from Silesian University, Czech Republic.
http://web.archive.org/web/20230330051411/https://sycurio.com/people/vladimir-jirasek
Hi Victor,
Is it possible to share a precis of what's what in those filings and why you think it is important?
Thanks
Great 36 page read. Then go to 15 June Exhibit A
Thursday, September 21, 2023
Exhibit A - Letter of Request + Annex,
36 pages
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Thursday, June 15, 2023
70...Exhibit A - 2022.12.19 Defendant PCI PAL (U.S) Inc.'s Invalidity Contentions
Page 19
B. All Asserted Claims of the Patents-in-Suit are Invalid Under 35 U.S.C. § 102(f).
https://www.pacermonitor.com/case/41847299/Semafone_Limited
Thursday, September 21, 2023
82..Unopposed MOTION for Issuance of Letters Rogatory by PCI Pal (U.S.) Inc.. Responses due by 10/5/2023 (Morrow, John)
Att: 1 Exhibit A - Letter of Request + Annex,
Att: 2 Exhibit B - PCI Stipulation Regarding Letters Rogatory
https://www.pacermonitor.com/case/41847299/Semafone_Limited
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US8750471B2
Signal detection and blocking for voice processing equipment
Inventors
TEW ANDREW PETER WILLIAM [GB]; JACKSON DAVID [GB]; CRITCHLEY TIMOTHY [GB]; COOPER-DRIVER RICHARD CHARLES [GB]
https://worldwide.espacenet.com/patent/search/family/039571074/publication/US8750471B2?q=pn%3DUS8750471
And the Group chewed up £3.5m in cash, primarily because of bank interest costs of £2.2m and net loan repayments of £1.0m.
Total interest bill of £11.7m for 2022 when £9.0m charged by Livingbridge on its loans, but not paid, is taken into account. The £9.0m interest income that Livingbridge will have recorded somewhere is fantasy income: Livingbridge is very unlikely to see all that income turn into cash (or to get its loans repaid in full). If Livingbridge is interested, I would offer to buy their loans to the Sycurio group of companies of nearly £100m for £1,000, which I reckon is a generous offer.
And to think that tbe group owes £31m to its bankers, too!! More than Sycurio is worth, in my view, especially when all the litigation is finished.
Sycurio clearly worth the c.£110 m that Livingbridge paid fot it. Turnover £19.7m v. £18.9m and adjusted EBITDA £3.4m v. £6.0m. And that is before £1.34m in legal fees. Great stewardship from Livingbridge.
Thanks Victor. Interesting they only grew ARR by 10% vs PCIP doing 32%. At this rate, PCIP will have overtaken them in 2-3 years. And a big decline in adjusted margins. Good stuff.
YALE MIDCO 1 LIMITED
21 Sep 2023 Full accounts made up to 31 December 2022
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/13451666
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YALE MIDCO 2 LIMITED
21 Sep 2023 Full accounts made up to 31 December 2022
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/13451657
SYCURIO LIMITED
21 Sep 2023 Group of companies' accounts made up to 31 December 2022
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/06963868/filing-history
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YALE MIDCO 3 LIMITED
21 Sep 2023 Full accounts made up to 31 December 2022
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/13451660/filing-history
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Confirmed and expected announcements from the finnCap tech universe.
05/10/23...PCI-PAL PLC...FY23 Results
https://www.finncap.com/tech-hub/calendar?
GB2616023 - Secure call processing via proxy
Applicant / Proprietor SYCURIO LIMITED
Pannell House
Park Street
Guildford, Surrey
GU1 4HN
United Kingdom
[ADP Number 13299748001]
Inventors GARY E. BARNETT
5 Portrush Ct
Brentwood
Tennessee
37027
United States of America
[ADP Number 13562186001]
THOMAS BALDWIN
31 Fairmile
Fleet
Hampshire
GU52 7UT
United Kingdom
[ADP Number 12220448002]
https://www.ipo.gov.uk/p-ipsum/Case/PublicationNumber/GB2616023
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GB2616023 - Secure call processing via proxy
Citations
Processing sensitive information by a contact centre
Page bookmark GB2548413 (A) - Processing sensitive information by a contact centre
Inventor(s): GEOFF FORSYTH [GB]; JAMES BARHAM [GB] +
Applicant(s): PCI-PAL (U K ) LTD [GB] +
PROCESSING SENSITIVE INFORMATION OVER VOIP
Page bookmark WO2019073216 (A1) - PROCESSING SENSITIVE INFORMATION OVER VOIP
Inventor(s): FORSYTH GEOFF [GB]; BRANCO CÉSAR [GB]; THORPE JAMES [GB] +
Applicant(s): PCI PAL U K LTD [GB] +
System and method for secure transmission of data signals
Page bookmark GB2539721 (A) - System and method for secure transmission of data signals
Inventor(s): COLIN PHILIP WESTLAKE [GB] +
Applicant(s): SYNTEC HOLDINGS LTD [GB] +
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Eckoh PLC
15th Dec 2021 Acquisition of Syntec Holdings and Launch of
https://www.lse.co.uk/rns/ECK/acquisition-of-syntec-holdings-and-launch-of-abb-qcpuk9ficrzk135.html
Victor,
Yes, thanks very much for that addition. The passage you mention spells it out very clearly. This translates as Sycurio needing to change its previously held position in the US case about the meaning of a “call processor” otherwise its case about infringement rested on sand.
And for the marvellous extract about the insertion of “directly” from a US case cited by Sycurio’s lawyers!!