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[georgebailey]

Fascinating connections here. By the way, BTG has an office right next store to IDC.
http://chantry.webeditz.com/pr/detail.php?ID=81

[mschere]

I believe Bruce Bernstein worked out of the BTG Pa. Office.


BTG in Europe
10 Fleet Place
Limeburner Lane
London EC4M 7SB
UK
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BTG in North America
Five Tower Bridge
300 Barr Harbor Drive, 7th Floor
West Conshohocken
PA 19428-2998
USA
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BTG in Japan
c/o Intralink
7F Shimbashi Kato Building
5-26-8 Shimbashi
Minato-ku
Tokyo 105-0004
Japan

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From the BTG Web Page..

We have made licensing agreements with a number of companies worldwide including:
Abiogen Pharma
Alizyme
Apotex
AstraZeneca
Bausch & Lomb
Biomet Inc
British Telecom
Caliper
CeNeS
Chiron
Cisco
Cytokine PharmaSciences
Eli Lilly and Company
Forest Laboratories
France Telecom
GE
Genentech, Inc.
Hitachi
Ilex Oncology
Immunex Corporation
Johnson & Johnson
Lucent Technologies
NewLife Technologies
Oki Electric and NEL
Pharmacia
Philips International BV
Proteus International plc
Resusitek
Royal Bank of Canada
Shimadzu
Siemens
Smith & Nephew
Stryker
Toshiba
US Genomics
Wright Medical Technology
Wyeth
Zimmer

BTG and Cisco sign agreement for key speech coding patents
BTG plc announced that an agreement has been signed with Cisco Systems Inc. for two key patents relating to speech coding technology, which provide building blocks for transmitting real time speech over the internet, enabling improved internet telephony and video conferencing.

These patents cover the use of speech coding and are believed to be incorporated into the various US national and international standards for Internet telephony and video conferencing. BTG acquired the patents from two sources. The first, from VoiceCraft Inc. California, covers the coding of speech using a simple technique which dramatically increases speech quality. The second patent, from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada, substantially decreases the delay associated with many speech encoders.

Applications for digitally encoded speech have grown phenomenally in recent months and include the use of voice over the internet, video conferencing, and digital cellular phones. Cisco, based in San Jose, California, is the worldwide leader in networking for the internet.

Ian Harvey, Chief Executive of BTG, said: "Electronics and telecommunications is a fast moving industry and technologies can have an impact in a relatively short time. BTG is creative and flexible in its deal structures to meet the needs of this dynamic market."

Grant Davidson and Allen Gersho combined to invent the VoiceCraft technology. Vladimir Cuperman, Robert Pettigrew and Lloyd Watts were the inventors for the Simon Fraser technology.

Terms of the fully paid up patent assignment were not disclosed.

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