经营邮资计价业务的大公司Pitney Bowes开始从事安全网络文件传输业务,此举是准备从United Parcel Service公司那里争夺市场。该公司为此注册了网络邮资计价器的专利。Pitney正将它的基于计算机的邮资计价专利向数字邮递服务业务的卖主发放许可证。 Pitney的努力是力图开发一个快速发展的数字邮资计价市场,公司期望依靠下载邮票达到邮递的需要。许多年来,Pitney一直致力于开发由计算机实现的计量技术。“我们许多的计量相关专利申请是从80年代开始的,”Pitney Bower的常务法律顾问Melvin Scolnich在一次声明中提到。“这些早期的专利实际上仅仅是随后在PC邮资相关技术取得成功的许多重要的专利文件的一部分。”对Pitney公司来说,它所拥有的新专利更坚定了它提供Internet的网络传输服务决心。同时UPS公司在1998年3月公布了UPS Document Exchangew这个产品。但Pitney和UPS这两个公司都是在使用取自Tumbleweed Software处的Posta技术。Tumbleweed公司的总裁Jeffery Pitney Bowes, the big company that runs the postage pricing business, started the secure file transfer business in preparation for a bid for the market from United Parcel Service. To that end, the company has registered a patent for the online postage meter. Pitney is licensing its computer-based postage pricing patents to sellers of digital postal services. Pitney’s effort is to develop a rapidly growing digital postage pricing market, and companies expect to rely on the need to download stamps for postal purposes. For many years Pitney has been working on the development of computer-based metrology. “Many of our metrology-related patent applications started in the 1980s,” said Melvin Scolnich, Pitney Bower’s standing legal counsel, in a statement. “These early patents were really just a few of the many important patent documents that subsequently succeeded in PC postage-related technology.” For Pitney, the new patent it owes more to its determination to deliver Internet-based Internet delivery services . At the same time UPS company announced in March 1998 UPS Document Exchangew this product. But both Pitney and UPS are using Posta technology from Tumbleweed Software. Jeffery, president of Tumbleweed