Improved Multi-Touch User Interface Technology and Revolutionary Keyboard for Touch Screen Devices to Auction at ICAP Ocean Tomo's Fall Auction November 11th in Napa, California

CHICAGO, Sept. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- ICAP Ocean Tomo, the intellectual property brokerage division of ICAP plc (IAP.L) and the world's premier patent auction firm, is set to auction a patent portfolio of multi-touch user interface IP at its upcoming Fall Auction on November 11th in Napa, California. Owned by Frogpad, Inc., the lot includes two US and three foreign counterparts which have been cited by Samsung, Intel, Microsoft, Nokia, and Research in Motion.

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Capitalizing on the estimated $3.6 billion dollar global market for touch screen panels(1), the assets of this lot disclose technology covering a multi-touch user interface and data entry via a keyboard layout for a one-handed keypad which can be downloaded onto a device with a multi-touch screen. The IP may limit other data entry systems on multi-touch applications using more than one touch simultaneously.

As many touch screen enabled devices are limited by their size, the use of a touch screen version of a traditional QWERTY keyboard is considered by many to be inefficient and problematic. The assets of this lot attempt to solve this problem through the use of a multi-touch interface. Consisting of primary and secondary keys, these keys enable full keyboard functionality through four distinct data entry options. "The future of multi-touch mobile applications demands a proven alternative user interface with a small foot print and full sized keys, and that is just what we have developed," said Linda Marroquin, CEO, Frogpad, Inc.

"In addition to those operating within the smart phone market," said ICAP Ocean Tomo CEO Dean Becker, "this technology should prove useful to entities producing other computing applications."

This lot can be purchased immediately, in advance of the auction through ICAP Ocean Tomo's Purchase Now feature for $4 million. For more information on the patents available in this lot, contact Dean Becker at [email protected].

To view the Fall Auction catalog online, visit http://icapoceantomo.com/auction/fall/catalog.

(1) http://www.displaybank.com/eng/info/sread.php?id=5731

About ICAP Ocean Tomo LLC

ICAP Ocean Tomo is the intellectual property brokerage division of ICAP and the world's premier patent auction firm.

About ICAP

ICAP is the world's premier interdealer broker and provider of post trade services. The Group matches buyers and sellers in the wholesale markets in interest rates, credit, commodities, foreign exchange, emerging markets, equities and equity derivatives through voice and electronic networks. ICAP plc was added to the FTSE 100 Index on 30 June 2006. For more information go to www.icap.com.

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