eSoft Announces Lawsuit Against RuleSpace for Misappropriation of Intellectual Property

BROOMFIELD, Colo., Feb. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- eSoft™, Inc., a leader in secure Internet web filtering, announced today it has filed a lawsuit in the District Court for the City and County of Broomfield, Colorado, against RuleSpace, LLC, a Beaverton, Oregon, web filtering company, for misappropriation of eSoft's intellectual property.  

The lawsuit alleges that RuleSpace stole intellectual property associated with eSoft's proprietary and industry-leading SiteFilter® database and categorization technology.  eSoft's proprietary SiteFilter technology offers eSoft's OEM partners and customers numerous critical advantages in the areas of active web coverage, accuracy, security and real-time website categorization and identification of malicious websites.  

eSoft alleges in its Complaint that RuleSpace secretly gained access to the SiteFilter technology, including eSoft's confidential SiteFilter database and eSoft's proprietary methods for real-time website categorization.  

"eSoft is the fastest-growing provider of secure web filtering for the OEM marketplace due to the innovative and proprietary SiteFilter technology," said Jeff Finn, eSoft's chief executive officer.  "A number of eSoft's OEM wins have come at RuleSpace's expense and we believe RuleSpace intends to use the unlawful theft of eSoft's intellectual property to enhance the RuleSpace offering and reduce further customer and market losses."    

"eSoft has invested substantial time and resources in developing the industry's leading secure web filtering technology," said Finn. "We will take all appropriate measures to protect our intellectual property and to preserve eSoft's strong competitive advantage in this market."

About eSoft, Inc.

eSoft, Inc. (www.esoft.com) is a leading network security company that provides comprehensive protection against dynamic, Internet-based email and web threats. eSoft's industry-leading SiteFilter® technology provides the most comprehensive secure web filtering solution available, providing real-time categorization and exploit detection of new websites and protection from Web 2.0 threats, phishing attacks, and malicious or infected websites. eSoft solutions protect millions of users in over 80 countries from the latest and most dangerous Internet threats.

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Notes: eSoft, SiteFilter, Distributed Intelligence Architecture, ActiveWeb, ThreatWall, InstaGate, ThreatPak, SoftPak, and SoftPak Director, are all trademarks and/or service marks of eSoft.

This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements often can be identified by the use of terms such as "may," "will," "expect," "believe," "project," "estimate" or words of similar meaning. Readers should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, and eSoft will not necessarily update these statements to reflect subsequent developments. In addition, these forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and important factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated.

SOURCE eSoft, Inc.

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