Intertrust Technologies Corporation

Intertrust Technologies Corporation
Private
Industry Computer software
Founded 1990
Founder Victor Shear
Headquarters Sunnyvale, California, United States
Key people
Products ExpressPlay, Genecloud, Personagraph, Seacert, whiteCryption
Website www.intertrust.com

Intertrust Technologies Corporation is a software technology company specializing in trusted distributed computing. It is also an investor in several start-up companies. Much of Intertrust's DRM related work is based on the open standard Marlin DRM, which Intertrust founded along with four consumer electronics companies: Sony, Panasonic, Philips, and Samsung.

Intertrust is headquartered in Silicon Valley and has regional offices in London and Beijing.

The company was founded in 1990 by inventor-entrepreneur Victor Shear. Shear's vision was to revolutionize electronic commerce by creating technologies that allowed independent actors to establish trust between each other when using digital networks and devices. Shear, a sociologist by training, brought concepts from human behavior, community construction, commerce and economics to life in the digital world in a unique way. The concepts that Intertrust has developed over the years cross disciplines and impact everything requiring trusted transactions, from healthcare, enterprise computing to entertainment and consumer electronics.[1][2][3]

The company has experienced many transformations over the past twenty years; it began as a quiet research lab under the name Electronic Publishing Resources in 1990, and became a public company providing neutral root of trust services from 1999-2003 (NASDAQ:ITRU),[4] and developed into a private joint venture of Philips, Sony and Stephens Inc. in early 2003.[5][6] Over the years Intertrust has invented and patented a range of DRM related technologies which it licenses to large technology and media corporations such as Adobe, Apple, the BBC, Fujitsu, HTC, LG, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia, Panasonic, Pantech, Phillips, Pioneer, Samsung, Sony, Telecom Italia, Telefonica, and Vodafone.[7] In 2004, Microsoft agreed to pay $440 million to obtain a comprehensive license to Intertrust’s patent portfolio.[8]

Notable staff

References

  1. ↑ "Can This Man Bring Down Microsoft? Maybe not. But his company's patent suit is the biggest legal threat to Microsoft since the antitrust case. - December 30, 2002". archive.fortune.com. Retrieved 2016-11-16.
  2. ↑ Corporation, InterTrust Technologies. "Testimony of Victor Shear, Founder and CEO, InterTrust Technologies Corporation, Before United States Senate Judiciary Committee April 3, 2001". www.prnewswire.com. Retrieved 2016-11-16.
  3. ↑ "Victor Shear: Executive Profile & Biography - Businessweek". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2016-11-16.
  4. ↑ "INTERTRUST TECHNOLOGIES CORP (ITRU) IPO". NASDAQ.com. Retrieved 2016-11-16.
  5. ↑ LLC, Fidelio Acquistion Company,. "Fidelio Completes Acquisition of InterTrust Technologies Corporation". www.prnewswire.com. Retrieved 2016-11-16.
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  7. ↑ "InterTrust Technologies - Aventurine". Aventurine. Retrieved 2016-11-16.
  8. ↑ "Microsoft and InterTrust Settle Outstanding Litigation and License Intellectual Property | News Center". news.microsoft.com. Retrieved 2016-11-16.
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