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- Leader Files For Post-Trial Judgments in Leader v. Facebook Aug
25, 2010
Columbus (August 25, 2010) –Leader today filed a Judgment as a Matter of Law post-trial motion in its patent infringement lawsuit against Facebook--Leader v. Facebook.
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- Jury Provides
Split Verdict in Leader® vs. Facebook Patent Infringement Trial Jul
29, 2010
Columbus (July 29, 2010) –Today
Leader Technologies Incorporated announced the results of the Leader v.
Facebook patent infringement trial, in which an eight-member jury in Wilmington,
Delaware, returned a split verdict on Wednesday, July 28th.
The jury concluded that Facebook literally infringes all of the asserted claims
of Leader's patent, and that the published prior art cited by Facebook did not
anticipate or make obvious Leader's invention. Facebook had alleged numerous
technologies that predated Leader's invention, but these were rejected by the
decision.
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- New Leader Phone® Site Launched Dec
8, 2009
Audio conferencing provider launches new site focused on user
productivity
Columbus (December 8, 2009) – Leader
Chairman Michael T. McKibben today announced the release of a new and improved
Leader Phone® Audio Conferencing site at http://www.leaderphone.com.
“Traditional audio conferencing is expensive, old technology with
few features,” McKibben said. “Leader Phone’s innovations
offer easy-to-use features that improve a company’s productivity
instead of dragging it down.” Leader Phone fixes the productivity
problem with an array of flexible user-managed services like Star*1 direct
dialing and Quick Call blast dialing. These features enable you to get
people on the phone immediately, without having to drudge through the current
cumbersome method of going offline, calling someone, giving them the dial
in number and PIN, then both of you re-entering a live call. Another special
feature is the powerful web console that creates new PINs, manages calls
with special privacy needs, and allows the user to manage his own account.
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- Ohio
Consumers' Counsel partners with Leader Technologies to provide Web 2.0
voice mail services to Ohioans in the 419 area code Jul
21, 2009
"The OCC is pleased to support this vital new technology for citizens
in northwest Ohio and we hope that it can be successfully expanded throughout
the state."
Columbus, Ohio (July 21, 2009) – Access to sponsored voice mail
services that are no cost to the client is now available to individuals in the
419 area code of northwest Ohio who do not have a telephone because they are
without a permanent residence or cannot afford one.
This new service is being made available through the combined efforts of the
Office of the Ohio Consumers' Counsel (OCC), the state residential utility consumer
advocate, Leader Technologies Incorporated and the Ohio Association of Second
Harvest Foodbanks (OASHF).
Leader Voice Mail® will enable people without phone service to retrieve messages
from a personal telephone number which can be accessed from any touch-tone telephone,
including wireless, or by using the Internet.
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- Leader Responds to Ohio Department of
Development February
10, 2009
Columbus, Ohio (February 10, 2009) – After
no less than three settlement agreements reached, then broken by Ohio
Department of Development (ODOD) petty bureacrats, Leader finally loses
patience with ODOD strong-arm tactics and goes public with its complaints
in a blog newly published and accessbile
here.
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- Leader sues Facebook for patent infringement November 19, 2008
Columbus, Ohio (November 19, 2008) – Leader
Technologies Incorporated of Columbus, Ohio, announced
today that it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit*
against the social networking company, Facebook, Inc. of Palo
Alto, California. The complaint was filed in the United States
District Court for the District of Delaware and alleges that Facebook
infringes Leader’s U.S. Patent No. 7,139,761 issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office on November 21, 2006. The ’761 Patent generally relates to a method and system for the management and storage of electronic information. Leader seeks damages and an injunction against Facebook for its willful infringement of the ’761
Patent.
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* Leader Technologies Inc. v. Facebook Inc., 08-CV-862-JJF - U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware.
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- Large Minnesota School District (Roseville) Applauds Alerting System Nov
6, 2008
"Much quicker and more cost effective"
Columbus, Ohio (November 6, 2008) – After
using its health and safety alerting system for nine months, Roseville
Area Schools, a prominent Minnesota school district comprising
more than 6,400 students, has declared Leader Alert® to
be a key communications tool for connecting parents, says Leader
Technologies Chairman Mike McKibben. Karen Schaub, Director of
Community Education and Public Relations for Roseville Area Schools,
described how the district utilized the product in a tense situation. "Our middle school used Leader Alert to quickly notify parents of a precautionary lock-down which was put in place to diffuse a potential confrontation by students from another school." Leader
Chairman Mike McKibben credits the leadership of Leader's Minnesota-based
sales affiliate, Tyda, with establishing this relationship with
the Roseville Area Schools.
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- Leader Phone® Call Summary emails now delivered in real time Nov 6, 2008
Call Summary information now posted online and delivered via email automatically
Columbus, Ohio (November 6, 2008) – On Nov. 4, 2008, Leader Phone® customers began receiving Call Summary emails at
the end of each audio conference call. The Web 2.0 Call History online
also contains this information, but customers have asked to also
get this report via email. The Call Summary provides an immediate
record of the telephone number for each person who participated
in the audio conference and how long each person was on the call,
as well as other account management information. Customers like
this feature because it allows them to immediately print out the
report and place it in their files with other information and notes
about the call. Customers also find this feature useful for referencing
phone numbers quickly. The Call Summary emails also include a one-line
features section that will contain productivity and cost reduction
suggestions.
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- Central
State University chooses Leader Alert® October
20, 2008
New Health and Safety Alerting System for Central State University
Columbus, Ohio (October
20, 2008) – Central State
University president
John W. Garland announced today that the school has chosen Leader
Alert®, a
health and safety alerting product, for use at its Wilberforce
and Dayton, Ohio campuses of more than 2,100 students. According
to Garland: “This decision underlines our commitment to
our students’ safety in emergency situations.” Garland
says: “Central State believes that Leader Alert offers peace
of mind to parents and students – we know that parents want
to be sure that the university
is taking all reasonable precautions in emergency situations, and
we will now be able to contact all of our students and faculty
and staff within minutes.”
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- Get
Green with Leader Phone® Web 2.0 Audio Conferencing July
21, 2008
Higher quality and more features at less cost… and it’s green
Columbus, Ohio (July 21, 2008) – Leader
Technologies® announced today its Get Green initiative, which
will implement special
programs with green non-profits to reduce communication costs and
reduce the carbon footprint of participating companies simultaneously.
Chairman Mike McKibben
points to Leader Phone audio conferencing as an obvious way for
companies to “get greener.” “Our Web
2.0 innovations in
phone conferencing have greatly improved calling quality and service
while reducing cost.”
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- Mansfield, Ohio City Schools implement
Leader Alert® system-wide June
25, 2008
School district offers enhanced security to stakeholders with Leader
Alert's opt-in web portal
Columbus, Ohio (June 25, 2008) – Lloyd
D. Martin, superintendent of Mansfield, Ohio City
Schools, announced today that the school disctrict has chosen Leader Alert®,
a health and safety alerting product, for use in its school district of
4700 students.
Leader Alert, the creation of Leader Technologies
of Columbus, Ohio, makes it possible for a school to quickly and simultaneously
alert thousands of parents and staff by telephone, texting, and email
in case of emergencies ranging from lurking predators to snow days.
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- Columbus Regional Airport Authority
Enhances Emergency Communications June
6, 2008
Westerville-based Leader Technologies® will provide its innovative
Leader Alert® system
Columbus, Ohio (June 6, 2008) – The
Columbus Regional Airport Authority (CRAA) announced today it will
use Westerville-based Leader Technologies’ innovative Leader Alert® system
to enhance airport security and make possible the
simultaneous alerting of all key personnel in case
of an emergency.
According to Public Safety Director Richard Morgan,
the Airport Authority saw Leader Alert’s unique Web 2.0 alerting
capabilities as a key component in meeting the security
needs for Port Columbus, Rickenbacker and Bolton Field airports. CRAA
conducted months of testing in various conditions and security scenarios
before making its decision.
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- Ohio School Boards Association announces
Leader Alert® endorsement Apr.
29, 2008
Ohio School Boards Association endorses
Leader Alert® for its 700 + member districts
Columbus, Ohio (April 28, 2008) – The Ohio
School Boards Association announced today its endorsement
of Leader Alert, a health and safety alerting product,
for the more than 700 Ohio public school districts
that comprise its membership. Leader Alert, the creation
of Leader Technologies of Columbus, Ohio, makes it
possible for a school to quickly and simultaneously
alert thousands of parents and staff by telephone,
texting, and email in case of emergencies ranging
from lurking predators to snow days.
See the June 2008 issue
of OSBA Journal for the OSBA: Working for you article
by Amanda Levy entitled "When seconds count, count on Leader Alert",
or view the article here>> OSBA
Journal Reprint
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- Leader Alert® Supports
Shawnee State University Safety Lockdown Feb.
7, 2008
Leader Alert® quickly
notified over 3500 SSU students, faculty and staff
Portsmouth, Ohio (February 7, 2008) – When
the community of Portsmouth, Ohio learned on February
7th that a fifth-grade teacher at Notre Dame Elementary
School had been attacked in the classroom in front
of her horrified students, they did not know at first
whether it was an isolated incident or part of a
larger threat. But
Portsmouth-based Shawnee State University was prepared. Their Emergency
Response Team used Leader Alert® to
issue an emergency message that was received within
minutes by all 3549 students, faculty, and staff.
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- Leader
supports suburban Cleveland middle school safety lockdown Apr.
27, 2007
Leader Alert® quickly notified 700 Parma
City Schools parents, prevented panic
Parma, Ohio (April
27 ,
2007) – An
April 18 lockdown at Greenbriar Middle School in
Parma, Ohio ended calmly when a 59-year old woman
carrying a knife was quickly disarmed in the school’s entrance airlock,
police were called, and school officials used an
Ohio company’s
product, Leader Alert®, to send a 40-second voice alert to the phones
of 700 parents of students within minutes of the
incident, avoiding a school closure and allowing
classes to continue.
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- Leader issues White Paper: "The
Future of Campus Alerting" Apr.
20, 2007
Timely and informative alerts can
save lives, unify response, stop rumors, and prevent panic
Columbus, Ohio (April
20, 2007) – "The tragedy at Viriginia
Tech University on April 17, 2007 has school administrators across the
nation looking for better ways to notify students,
faculty, staff and even worried parents, friends, relatives
and alumni about threatening situations. Security experts
believe that timely notices to students and faculty,
warning of a possible gunman on campus, might have
lessened or even prevented the loss of life that followed.
Hindsight is 20-20. No one knows for sure whether
any kind of alert could have prevented the scope
of this tragedy. A lone, crazed gunman with no previous
history of violence is impossible to predict. However, we owe it to the
memories of the students and professors whose lives were lost to try and
make sense out of the lessons learned, so that future lives may be spared
the suffering so needlessly inflicted upon so many."
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- Leader
issued U.S. Patent for Digital Leaderboard® communication engine Nov.
17, 2006
Columbus, Ohio (November 17, 2006) – Leader
Technologies has been issued a patent by the U.S.
Patent and Trademark Office for its Digital Leaderboard® Web
2.0, unified communications technology, the core
technology that drives its suite of voice, video
and data collaboration products and services.
"Ten years ago I anticipated that the Internet would become the primary
way people and enterprises would collaborate on a massive scale," said
Michael T. McKibben, chairman and founder of Leader, and inventor of the
Digital Leaderboard® technology. "The granting of this patent validates
our vision, leadership, perseverance and it protects our valuable intellectual
property."
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- Leader
teams with Multi-Sector Crisis Management Consortium (MSCMC) Nov.
13, 2006
Columbus, Ohio (November 13, 2006) – Leader
Technologies has teamed with the Multi-Sector
Crisis Management Consortium (MSCMC) headquarted in Washington D.C.
to provide communication and collaboration services
nationally and internationally. MSCMC is closely
affiliated with the National
Center for Supercomputing Applications headquartered at the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Go to the Leader
Chairman's blog to get more information and to access
a link to Bird
Flu - What to do by Verona Fonte, Ph.D. - a timely threat
mitigation resource.
Chairman's
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- Leader
hosts former White House security advisor Oct.
26, 2006
Columbus, Ohio (October 26, 2006) – Leader
Technologies hosted William (Bill) DeGenaro, a former
security advisor to the White House during the Reagan
and Bush (Sr.) administrations. After his service
at the White House he was Director of Strategy & Innovation
at 3M. DeGenaro focused his training on innovations
and how to protect shareholder value...
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- Leader
assists Louisiana Governor's Office following Hurricane Katrina Sept.
2, 2005
Columbus, Ohio (September 2, 2005) – Leader
Technologies responded to an urgent call Tuesday,
Aug. 30, from Louisiana officials following Hurricane
Katrina to provide critical telecommunications services. LeaderPhone® was
deployed immediately, linking the governor with dozens
of federal, state and local disaster recovery officials,
said Mike McKibben, Chairman and founder of Leader...
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- Leader
hosts The Ohio Homeland Security Initiative at The Ohio State University. Dec.
13, 2004
Columbus, Ohio (December 13, 2004) – Leader helped bring together experts from government, academia and industry
into a think-tank forum. The forum focused on state and local first responder "command
and control" solutions
that can be implemented now to help overcome the
lack of communications and control that hinders disaster
response and costs lives. Participating companies
and organizations included General Dynamics, Cardinal
Health, McDonald's, Sprint, Nextel, Bricker & Eckler,
City of Columbus Department of Public Safety, WOSU-TV,
The Ohio State University, Center for Strategic Management,
Tibco, The National Registry of Emergency Medical
Technicians and a number of other core technology
providers.
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here for the Pre-meeting Press Release (PDF)
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- Leader
Phone® chosen
by Kansas as exclusive conference
call provider. Nov.
24, 2004
Columbus,
Ohio (November
24, 2004) – The
State of Kansas has signed a contract with LeaderPhone®
to provide audio conference calling services to all
state agencies, slashing the cost in half over the
previous carrier.
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- State
of Wyoming chooses Leader Phone ® conference
calling services. May
10, 2004
Columbus,
Ohio (May 10, 2004) – The State of Wyoming has entered into contract
with Leader to expand its use of LeaderPhone
Teleconferencing Services to 38 state agencies.
More are planned. Jonathan Downing, Policy
Analyst for the Wyoming Department of Workforce
Services says, “Our
employees and business partners have been very pleased
with Leader’s
services. They have resulted in a significant cost
savings for our programs. At a time when
we are faced with limited resources, Leader’s advanced
and on-demand technologies have assisted us with
maintaining a competitive edge in the provision
of teleconferencing services to a state covering
97,813 square miles.”
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- Leader played key part in Terrorex 04 Homeland Security simulation. January
7-11, 2004
Columbus,
Ohio (January
7-11, 2004) – Terrorex 2004 was a high-level Homeland Security conference
among experts from commerce, industry, education,
and government at the federal, state and local levels
who are preparing the United States and its allies
against terrorist attacks. It is believed to be the
largest interagency anti-terrorism drill ever conducted.
Leader Alert™,
Leader Phone®, Leader2Leader®,
Leader Meeting® and
Leader Smart Camera™ provided audio and video communications and
allowed agencies involved to collaborate online to
react and respond to terrorist threat simulations.
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also Washington
Technology & Leader
Alert™
Leader2Leader®
Homeland Security Information Rights Management Platform
Leader2Leader®
Business Continuity Platform
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- Columbus
Business First Cover
Story: "Angels' Eyes June
6, 2003
Columbus, Ohio (June 6, 2003) – In shadow
of big VC deals, small investors keep entrepreneurs supplied with capital" --
Mike McKibben has spent the last six years taking his Westerville-based
company through an intensive research-and-development phase...
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- Leader
awarded 2003 Tier I Ohio Award for Excellence May
23, 2003
Columbus,
Ohio (May
23, 2003) – Business
First, May 14, "Several Central Ohio businesses and organizations
have received Ohio Awards of Excellence. The awards,
endorsed by Gov. Bob Taft [and modeled after the
Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award], recognize
best practices..." Business
First
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- eWeek
Reviews LeaderPhone® January
13, 2003
Columbus, Ohio (January 13, 2003) – LeaderPhone® press
coverage 1-13-03 - "LeaderPhone
Allows Law Firm To Control, Monitor Calls, Helps
Reduce Cost"
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