In-flight content experts Altitude Media recently honored Seer Systems by telephone interview.

“Another in a two-decade line of ‘firsts,’ this is to my knowledge the first coverage of a synthesizer company by in-flight radio and magazines. It brings our story to the attention of over 10 million people.” founder Stanley Jungleib said.

The segment runs on Delta and USAir for all of September and October, 2011.

Listen: Altitude Media Interview

“Patent Bust” of Seer Systems’ Electronic Music Patent Sunk By USPTO Action

San Francisco, CA – October 29, 2010 – The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has rejected the EFF’s “Patent Busting” re-examination attack on Seer Systems’ patent #5,886,274. According to the EFF’s website, Seer and its ’274 patent were “Wanted by EFF Marshalls” for “Crimes Against the Public Domain; Willful Ignorance of Prior Art; Eggregious Display of Obviousness.” The USPTO disagreed, ruling that the core original claims of the ’274 patent are valid, as are six newly-added claims. From a technical standpoint the entire affair cost Seer only a few minor amendments of wording that rendered three of the original claims in the ‘274 patent no longer necessary.

Founder and Chairman Stanley Jungleib, responds: “Seer’s ‘274 Patent inventing scalable digital audio distribution has now withstood all reasonable tests and challenges. Seer Systems has already settled litigation with Microsoft, Yamaha, and Beatnik. Thanks to EFF this Patent has now received enough attention that no one in the MIDI or audio domain can claim ignorance of its validity and implications. Seer Systems looks forward to licensing responsible customers under fair terms. And, as necessary, we will continue defending our intellectual property consistent with our substantial record.”

Seer’s outside litigation counsel, Alex Weyand of the Weyand Law Firm, San Francisco, commented: “Why the EFF did not contact our client first, and instead chose to learn the hard way, remains a mystery.”

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Seer Systems is not clear about the motives behind the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s decision to place Seer Systems on its list today. In truth, Seer Systems is a small company that invested all it could to develop valuable technology only to have others try to take it away, without authority, for their commercial gain.

Putting a stop to this by the proper exercise of legal rights is all that Seer Systems is trying to do. EFF never contacted Seer Systems about how its technology is being illegally exploited or why it thinks it is wrong to stop others from violating the law and acting unfairly.