RPost Sues Goodmail

September 21, 2009

Other parties may be named in lawsuit

LOS ANGELES, CA—September 21, 2009 –

RPost^®, the global pioneer in email delivery proof services with its flagship Registered Email^® service technology, today announced that it has brought suit against Goodmail Systems for infringement of RPost patents. The RPost suit is targeted at Goodmail’s Certified Email “Paper Suppression” service. RPost has asked the US Federal Court to issue an injunction to prevent further damages.

“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 email system: one for paying spammers and another for everybody else. But if email 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 Paper Suppression claims to allow users to prove the delivery and content of their messages.

"Clearly Goodmail looked at RPost and saw that there is an enormous market for serious businesses that need to have irrefutable proof for 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’s core Registered Email^® service provides the sender with legally valid and court admissible evidence that proves delivery and content for email.

RPost’s 24 patents granted worldwide have priority over technology dating back to 1996. These patents broadly cover the technologies of verifiable proof for email delivery and value-added outbound email 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. RPost’s federally registered trademarks include ‘Registered Email^®’ and ‘Legal Proof^®’ among others.

The RPost Goodmail suit may expand to include other parties. “We believe that further discovery may show that Goodmail’s partners are not only using an infringing service but are using Goodmail technology in ways that make them collaborators in that infringement.” Goodmail’s partners include AOL, Comcast, Telus, Verizon, BT Communications, RoadRunner Online and Yahoo!, among others.