Quest Patent Research Subsidiary CXT Systems Enters into License and Settlement Agreement with Tailored Brands, Inc.
Tailored Brands is the sixth licensee of the CXT portfolio including Container Store, Pier 1, GNC, Hallmark and Fossil
RYE, NY – 06/17/2020 – Quest Patent Research Corporation (OTCQB: QPRC) ("Quest" or "Company"), an Intellectual Property asset monetization company, today announced entering into a patent license and settlement agreement with Tailored Brands, Inc. (“Tailored Brands”) (the “Agreement”) in the CXT intellectual property portfolio. The Agreements resolve the parties’ disputes, grants Tailored Brands a fully paid license to assets within the CXT patent portfolio, and mutual covenants, among other terms, which are confidential.
The CXT Portfolio represents 1 of 11 intellectual property portfolios Quest owns and/or controls, and is comprised of 30 U.S. patents covering technology relating to, among other innovations, systems and methods of operating an accessible information database which provides for single sign-on user authentication, intelligent database management, as well as inventory evaluation, filtering according to preferences, alternative product recommendations, and access to a database of consumer feedback/evaluation.
The two main technology segments of the portfolio are the 'Message Board Patents' relating to customer reviews and recommendations and the 'Steele Patents' relating to a system for centrally storing and managing consumer information accounts, and auto populating information on webpages, such as checkout pages and account pages.
To date, Fossil, Academy, Container Store, Pier 1, GNC, Hallmark, Steve Madden, and several others have all taken a license to the Steele Patents. Yotpo, Turnto, PowerReviews, and BazaarVoice have all taken a license to the Message Board Patents.
Mr. Jon Scahill, CEO of Quest, commented. “We are pleased to have reached a licensing agreement with our fifteenth licensee within the CXT structured licensing program in approximately 2 years its inception.”
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