Tumbleweed Licenses Email Firewall Patents to Sendmail
October 14 2005 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Tumbleweed(R) Communications Corp. (NASDAQ:TMWD), a leading
provider of email security, file transfer security, and identity
validation solutions, today announced the licensing of two
technology patents to Sendmail, Inc. Sendmail, a global provider of
email security and infrastructure, has licensed from Tumbleweed
U.S. Patent No. 6,393,568 titled "Encryption and Decryption Method
with Content Analysis Provision" and U.S. Patent No. 6,609,196
titled "Email Firewall with Stored Key Encryption/Decryption."
"We're pleased to license our technology to Sendmail," said Craig
Brennan, Tumbleweed's CEO and chairman. "We will always continue to
develop and innovate for the industry." Terms of the agreement were
not disclosed. About Tumbleweed Communications Corp. Tumbleweed
provides security solutions for email protection, file transfers,
and identity validation that allow organizations to safely conduct
business over the Internet. Tumbleweed offers these solutions in
three comprehensive product suites: MailGate, SecureTransport and
Valicert Validation Authority. MailGate provides protection against
spam, viruses and attacks, and enables policy-based message
filtering, encryption and routing. SecureTransport enables business
to safely exchange large files and transactions without proprietary
software. Valicert Validation Authority is the world-leading
solution for determining the validity of digital certificates.
Tumbleweed's enterprise and government customers include ABN Amro,
Bank of America Securities, Catholic Healthcare West, JP Morgan
Chase & Co., The Regence Group (Blue Cross/Blue Shield), St.
Luke's Episcopal Healthcare System, the US Food and Drug
Administration, the US Department of Defense, and all four branches
of the US Armed Forces. Tumbleweed was founded in 1993 and is
headquartered in Redwood City, Calif. For additional information
about Tumbleweed go to www.tumbleweed.com or call 650-216-2000.
SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT Tumbleweed cautions that forward-looking
statements contained in this press release are based on plans and
expectations as of the date of the press release, and that a number
of factors could cause the actual results to differ materially from
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contained herein, the matters discussed in this press release may
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and enforcement of the Tumbleweed patent portfolio. In some cases,
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investing in Tumbleweed, we refer you to the documents Tumbleweed
files from time to time with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, particularly Tumbleweed's Form 10-K filed March 16,
2005 and Form 10-Q filed August 9, 2005. Tumbleweed assumes no
obligation to update information contained in this press release,
which represents the Company's expectations only as of the date of
this release and should not be viewed as a statement about the
Company's expectations after such date. Although this release may
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continued availability does not indicate that the Company is
reaffirming or confirming any of the information contained herein.
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