RPost Identifies Patent Infringers; Begins Enforcement Actions

RPost has filed suit in US Federal Court against Goodmail Systems, Inc and has asked for an injunction to prevent further patent infringement by Goodmail’s Certified E-mail Paper Suppression service. “Basically Goodmail started up as a way for marketers to buy their way past the spam filters of cooperating ISP’s” says Zafar Khan, RPost CEO. “Like many people in the industry, we didn’t like that because it essentially creates a two-tiered e-mail system: one for paying spammers and another for everybody else. But if e-mail providers want to let corporate spammers into their user’s mailboxes, that is between them and their users. However, with the introduction of their Paper Suppression service, Goodmail crossed a line.” Goodmail’s Paper Suppression service claims to allow bulk emailers to prove the delivery and content of their messages if (a) the recipient is accessing either email through a Goodmail participating ISP, and (b) the sender is using a Goodmail participating email provider.

“Clearly Goodmail looked at RPost and saw that there is an enormous market for serious businesses that need to have irrefutable proof of the delivery of important documents and they decided to go after that. But,” says Khan, “that is our turf and we mean to protect it.”

RPost now holds 24 patents worldwide, with priority over technology dating back to 1996. These patents broadly apply to technologies of verifiable proof for e-mail delivery and value-added outbound e-mail processing. RPost patents have been granted in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Korea, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and the United States; with numerous additional patents pending.

New RPost Customers Report Services Utilization for Business Critical Legal Notifications

Penske, a global transportation services company with more than 1,000 locations around the world, reports sending Registered Email messages for proof of delivery of accounts receivable default letters in the United States.

The United States Federal Trade Commission, the government entity that prevents unfair methods of competition in commerce, reports sending Registered Email messages for proof of effective process of service for overseas defendants.

Kosher Communications and KC135 Inc, two international wholesale and retail telecommunications organizations, report sending Registered Email messages for proof of delivery time on contractual rate change notices.

RPost Releases Salesforce.com Application

RPost has released an add-in for SalesForce.com, one of the leading CRM tools providers (customer relationship management). This RPost add-in for SalesForce.com permits sales managers to send, right from their SalesForce.com user interface, pricing proposals by Registered Email message for proof of time received and opened; and purchase quotes via RPost’s eSignOff service for one-click contract execution by email. This connector to SalesForce.com permits sales mangers to shorten the quote-to-cash cycle time by automatically recording electronic signatures from customers on customer purchase orders, contract addenda, and contract change orders.