SAP Patent Distinguished from Granular Information Ownership

Pardalis’ patents now distinguished from those held by Microsoft, IBM & SAP

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 29, 2007 — The United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) announced today the issuance to SAP AG of U.S. Patent # 7,225,302 entitled ‘Method and software application for avoiding data loss’. According to Wikipedia.org, SAP AG is the largest software company in Europe and the fourth largest in the world. It ranks after Microsoft, Google, Apple and IBM in terms of market capitalization. The SAP patent was specifically distinguished by USPTO examiners from Pardalis’ U.S. Patent #6,671,696 entitled ‘Informational object authoring and distribution system’ (issued on December 30, 2003).

Pardalis' patents have previously been distinguished by the examiners of the USPTO from Microsoft’s U.S. Patent #5,511,197 entitled ‘Method and system for network marshalling of interface pointers for remote procedure calls’ (issued April 23, 1996), Microsoft’s U.S. Patent #5,724,588 also entitled ‘Method and system for network marshalling of interface pointers for remote procedure calls’ (issued March 3, 1998), Microsoft’s U.S. Patent #6,493,719 entitled ‘Method and system for scripting for system management information’ (issued December 10, 2002), and IBM’s U.S. Patent #6,438,560 entitled ‘Reuse of immutable objects during object creation’ (issued August 20, 2002).

“What is different about using informational objects for empowering granular information ownership that is different from what information technology companies are providing today?” said Steve Holcombe, Pardalis’ CEO. “Granular information ownership involves an innovatively different application of informational objects than as mere individual units of efficient data storage as seen in the distinguished patents held by Microsoft, IBM and SAP.”

“Pardalis’ granular information ownership is not an iterative step improvement in the use of informational objects, but is instead a paradigm shift in the application of object-oriented programming,” Holcombe said. “More detailed information is available in our recent white paper, Banking on Granular Information Ownership, retrievable from Pardalis’ homepage.”

About Pardalis, Inc.

Pardalis' mission is to promote the sharing of confidential, trustworthy and traceable data along complex and poorly coordinated supply chains with innovative Common Point Authoring™ methods for protecting the granular ownership rights of information producers. For more information, call 877-OWN-DATA or visit http://www.pardalis.com.