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DataTreasury, located in Plano, Texas, United States, develops, acquires and licenses technology for secure check image capture and storage. As of 2010 the company had 2 employees, about 1000 shareholders and had generated over $350 mm in licensing revenue in the previous four years.〔Joe Mullin for The Prior Art. April 05, 2010 (Patent Litigation Weekly: DataTreasury Wins First Patent Trial, Against U.S. Bank )〕〔Jeff Bounds for the Dallas Business Journal, April 25, 2010. ($27M win for DataTreasury in big case )〕 The company has a patent portfolio relating to these technologies which it enforces. Several banks have settled and in 2010 U.S. Bank, Viewpointe (a company set up by some major banks and I.B.M. to store and retrieve digital images of checks for large banks) Clearing House Payments Company and its subsidiary, SVPCo, were found guilty of infringing DataTreasury's patents.〔Dan Browning for the Minneapolis StarTribune February 24, 2010. (Banking dispute involving U.S. Bank is going to 3 trials )〕〔 Robin R. Richardson and DD Turner for marshallnewsmessenger.com, March 26, 2010. (Banks lose patent suit: DataTreasury awarded $26.6M )〕 There has been controversy concerning the company. In 2004, the New York Times characterized DataTreasury as "a company whose only business, other than one client, appears to be suing other companies."〔 The banking industry has accused DataTreasury's lawyers of patent trolling and DataTreasury themselves of abusing the patent system by buying the patents they are enforcing.〔Jeffrey H. Birnbaum for the Washington Post, February 14, 2008. (Lawmakers Move to Grant Banks Immunity Against Patent Lawsuit )〕 The Senate version of the Patent Reform Act of 2007 (which was never enacted) contained an amendment, lobbied for by banks, tailored to protect banks from DataTreasury infringement litigation.〔 On the other hand, in 2010, just after DataTreasury won their first lawsuit, Claudio Ballard, who founded the company, was named inventor of the year.〔 U.S. Business and Industry Council press release, October 05, 2010. (DataTreasury Founder Claudio Ballard Named 2010 “Inventor of the Year” by U.S. Business and Industry Council )〕 ==Company foundation and early years== Claudio Ballard founded DataTreasury in 1998 in Melville, NY to market technology that processes electronic checks and other documents and related payment-processing tools utilizing patents prosecuted and filed prior to DataTreasury's founding. Patents were issued in 1999 and 2000.〔( DataTreasury "About Us" web page )〕 According to Ballard, DataTreasury had as many as 100 employees but almost went out of business in late 2001.〔 In 2002, DataTreasury licensed their first imaging system, eImageVault, to Bank Hapoalim of Israel.〔Staff,Technology Marketing Corporation, January 30, 2002 (Data Treasury Signs Agreement With Israel-Based Bank )〕 According to a 2010 article in the Minneapolis StarTribune, DataTreasury said that in its early days, "DataTreasury discussed a joint venture with Chase Manhattan Bank, now known as J.P. Morgan Chase. But according to the company, J.P. Morgan Chase instead helped start up competitors, Small Value Payments Co. (SVPCO) and Viewpointe Archive Services, which now process most of the nation's checks."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「DataTreasury」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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