Patent Information

Cybersettle's online, automated dispute resolution method and system is protected under several patents issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, U.S. Patent Nos. 6,330,551, 6,850,918, 6,954,741, and 7,249,114, as well as by foreign patents. These patents provide the company with broad patent coverage for the technology that it pioneered.

A patent for an invention is the grant of a property right to the inventor, issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. A patent provides a "legal monopoly" in that the patent holder has the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling the invention in the United States or importing the invention into the United States. Generally, the term of a new patent is 20 years from the date on which the application for the patent was filed in the United States. None of Cybersettle's patents expire earlier than the year 2018.

Cybersettle's intellectual property matters are handled by Dreier LLP. Dreier LLP was founded in 1996 by Marc Dreier as a more responsive and innovative alternative to traditional “large-firm” lawyering. Dreier LLP represents a wide range of institutional, entrepreneurial and individual clients in diverse sectors of financial, industrial and service-oriented markets. The firm’s principal practices are commercial litigation, class action litigation, real estate, bankruptcy and corporate reorganization, employment law, corporate and securities, matrimonial, entertainment, intellectual property and tax.

Dreier LLP’s Los Angeles affiliate, Dreier Stein & Kahan LLP, has its principal practice in entertainment and commercial litigation and in corporate transactions. The firm’s affiliate Schlesinger Gannon & Lazetera LLP has an extensive practice in the area of trusts and estates law. Pitta & Dreier LLP is an affiliate which specializes in labor law, and Pitta, Bishop, Del Giorno & Dreier LLP specializes in government relations. In the 10 years since its founding, Dreier LLP, with its affiliate members, has grown to more than 200 attorneys, with its principal office at 499 Park Avenue in Manhattan, and additional offices in Los Angeles; Santa Monica, California; Albany, New York; and Stamford, Connecticut.