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7/4/2019 4:00 PM

Any innuendo from Afilias casting doubt on 51Degrees innovative technology is entirely without substance The EPO s decision exposes Afilias bogus technology claims and settles the matter until the inevitable appeal

10/11/2017 12:23 PM

DeviceAtlas is a product operated by dotMobi a small subsidiary within Afilias Technologies Plc Afilias core business of Top Level Domain TLD name management and DeviceAtlas appears to be a small unrelated product

10/11/2017 12:23 PM

DeviceAtlas is a product operated by dotMobi a small subsidiary within Afilias Technologies Plc Afilias core business of Top Level Domain TLD name management and DeviceAtlas appears to be a small unrelated product

10/11/2017 12:23 PM

DeviceAtlas is a product operated by dotMobi a small subsidiary within Afilias Technologies Plc Afilias core business of Top Level Domain TLD name management and DeviceAtlas appears to be a small unrelated product

5/2/2019 3:47 PM

It is important to note that Afilias have not violated any software licence or patent in making a public copy The action is however highly unusual

11/29/2017 2:00 PM

This Afilias patent and its US counterpart are comparable to WURFL and I am staggered that the EPO have granted it In contrast to the EPO the US Patent and Trademark Office USPTO in November 2017 issued a final rejection in relation to similar claims contained in Afilias patent application US20160070796

11/29/2017 2:00 PM

In parallel to our opposition to the DeviceAtlas patent 51Degrees granted EPO patent EP2871816 Identifying Properties of a Communication Device is being opposed by Afilias for reasons including that it is not new over Afilias patent We have produced a summary of the algorithms in question for the lay reader to quickly understand how each works

11/29/2017 2:00 PM

Although Afilias has said it has stopped using WURFL derived data its 2009 algorithm remains at the very core of the DeviceAtlas product

11/29/2017 2:00 PM

Ultimately device detection improves revenue for businesses and at 51Degrees we ve gone out of our way to stay clear of WURFL ScientiaMobile DeviceAtlas and Afilias intellectual property

5/9/2018 10:12 AM

In July 2017 after eight long years of deliberation the European Patent Office EPO granted Afilias patent EP2245836B1 Determining a property of a communication device Previously in December 2016 51Degrees European patent was opposed by Afilias for reasons including that it is not new over Afilias aforementioned patent used within its DeviceAtlas product 51Degrees have produced a summary of the algorithms in question for the lay reader to quickly understand how each works There is no similarity beyond the use of a small number of long established computing concepts connected in very different ways and clearly the EPO agrees

5/9/2018 10:12 AM

On 8th May 2018 the European Patent Office EPO rejected the patent opposition submitted by Afilias Technologies upholding 51Degrees European Patent EP2871816 Identifying Properties of a Communication Device with one minor change to remove four words

11/29/2017 2:00 PM

In July 2017 after eight long years of deliberation the European Patent Office EPO finally granted Afilias Technologies Ltd patent EP2245836B1 Determining a property of a communication device This patent is at the heart of their DeviceAtlas device detection product

7/4/2019 4:00 PM

The United States Patent and Trademark Office USPTO forced Afilias to significantly narrow a counterpart patent application US9185182B2 prior to grant in 2015 Another counterpart US patent application US20160070796 received a final rejection in March 2019

10/11/2017 12:23 PM

Back when the Afilias patent was originally filed Nokia and Blackberry ruled the mobile device industry It was a reasonable assumption with User Agent strings to assume that the most significant information is contained at the start of the string Eight years later this is not true

10/11/2017 12:23 PM

51Degrees received their Pattern algorithm patent EP2871816 in 2016 less than 3 years after filing Afilias took nearly 8 years for their device detection patent to be granted and have filed nothing relevant since 2009

10/11/2017 12:23 PM

Back when the Afilias patent was originally filed Nokia and Blackberry ruled the mobile device industry It was a reasonable assumption with User Agent strings to assume that the most significant information is contained at the start of the string Eight years later this is not true

10/11/2017 12:23 PM

51Degrees received their Pattern algorithm patent EP2871816 in 2016 less than 3 years after filing Afilias took nearly 8 years for their device detection patent to be granted and have filed nothing relevant since 2009

10/11/2017 12:23 PM

Back when the Afilias patent was originally filed Nokia and Blackberry ruled the mobile device industry It was a reasonable assumption with User Agent strings to assume that the most significant information is contained at the start of the string Eight years later this is not true

10/11/2017 12:23 PM

51Degrees received their Pattern algorithm patent EP2871816 in 2016 less than 3 years after filing Afilias took nearly 8 years for their device detection patent to be granted and have filed nothing relevant since 2009

7/4/2019 4:00 PM

Yesterday the European Patent Office EPO opposition division narrowed Afilias Technologies Plc s device detection patent EP2245836B1 in Europe as a result of an opposition brought by 51Degrees in 2017 and explained in this blog The EPO concluded that the patent as initially granted was not valid

7/4/2019 4:00 PM

In short Afilias device detection patents have been narrowed so much as to be meaningless or rejected Their customers no longer benefit from the patent protection or inventive solution they were promised 51Degrees are the only device detection vendor to continuously innovate throughout this decade achieving granted and meaningful patents in both the US and Europe

2/23/2018 2:00 PM

The computing technique Patricia Trie or tree first described in 1968 is at the core of the DeviceAtlas solution Afilias DeviceAtlas parent company were granted a contested patent for the technique in Europe during 2017 after 8 years of examination Patricia Trie notoriously overfits and isn t well suited to device detection where machine learning rather than basic retrieval is required