Litera® Grants Microsystems a License for Patented Metadata Removal Technology

MCLEANSVILLE, N.C., June 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Litera® (www.litera.com), a provider of Collaborative Content Lifecycle Management (CCLM) solutions, has granted Microsystems (www.microsystems.com) a non-exclusive license to Litera's U.S. patent 7,895,276. Under the terms of the agreement, Microsystems is continuing the development, sales and marketing of a server product for the removal of metadata from important legal and business documents.  "This is a fair agreement that protects Microsystems' customers as well as Litera's intellectual property rights," said Deepak Massand, Litera's CEO.

In February 2011, Litera was awarded U.S. patent 7,895,276 for a server-based technology for removing potentially sensitive metadata--the descriptive, often confidential information attached to a file providing its authorship, the date and time of its creation, edits and other details--from email attachments sent via any email client including webmail and smartphones. The technology covers cloud and server based metadata cleaning which Litera markets as Metadacte .  

Metadacte removes metadata from all document formats and e-mail attachments including Microsoft Office, PDF, image and ZIP files sent via Outlook and other e-mail programs. Corporate administrators can define a centralized cleaning policy that can be implemented on a company-wide level or individual users can be given permission to personally control select settings.  Metadacte's enhanced flexibility and functionality enables users to selectively remove tracked changes in Word documents, hidden cells in spreadsheets and/or speaker's notes from PowerPoint presentations.  Metadacte provides detailed logs allowing administrators to review a comprehensive list of detected and removed metadata by sender, date and additional variables.

Litera also markets Metadact, a desktop-based metadata cleansing solution.

About Litera

Litera offers a comprehensive suite of document creation (Innova), comparison (Change-Pro), collaboration (IDS), cleansing (Metadact) and Control (LDF) software that provides users with unsurpassed content confidence enabling them to manage their content lifecycle and data with a degree of control not available through any other solution on the market. Litera's patented productivity applications meet the critical content management needs of today's business professionals, including many of the world's leading law firms and major corporations. For more information visit www.litera.com.

SOURCE Litera