Acer Licenses CIC Pen Computing Technology Worldwide

August 24, 1992 — Communication Intelligence Corp. (NASDAQ:CICI) (CIC) and The Acer Group Monday announced the signing of an agreement granting Acer a worldwide license to use, copy and distribute CIC’s multilingual Handwriter Recognition Systems; Handwriter Dynamic Signature Verification System; PenDOS pen operating environment; and other open-architected, pen computing software technology from CIC.

CIC’s PenDOS is a fast and memory-efficient pen operating environment designed for developing new pen-based applications and transforming existing mouse-aware DOS applications into pen-aware applications, without modification.

The Acer Group designs and manufactures a full range of computer systems, subsystems and components, which it sells directly and through multiple channels. The Acer Group’s products range from notebooks to networks, including PC systems and servers, notebook PCs, multiuser UNIX systems, multimedia systems, peripherals, ASICs, 4-Mbit DRAMS, and software.

Simon Lin, president of Acer’s PC Products Business Unit, commented, “Acer’s hardware combined with PenDOS and CIC’s core technologies — Handwriter Recognition Systems and Handwriter Dynamic Signature Verification — provides users a proven, consumer-ready handwriting recognizer and robust computer security system.”

Acer plans to introduce a series of pen products by the second quarter of 1993. The pen products will draw on Acer’s 15 years of experience in designing and marketing personal computers. While details were not announced, “CIC software technology is expected to figure prominently in this line of pen products,” added Lin.

“We are pleased to have Acer become a CIC licensee,” said James Dao, president and chief executive officer of CIC. “Acer’s pen products will bring the benefits of CIC technology to many computer users worldwide.”

The Acer Group is a multinational organization that has 53 offices and 5,600 employees in 17 countries and manufacturing facilities in the United States, Taiwan, Malaysia and The Netherlands. Acer’s advanced, automated manufacturing operations are capable of producing 1 million premium-quality computers a year.

The Acer Group registered US $1 billion in consolidated sales in 1991. Acer Inc., the parent company of The Acer Group, is listed on the Taiwan stock exchange.

CIC is a leading, worldwide supplier of pen computing products, including: multilingual (English, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Japanese) Handwriter Recognition Systems and Handwriter Dynamic Signature Verification, with interfaces for Microsoft Windows for Pen Computing, and CIC’s own PenDOS and MacHandwriter pen operating environments.

CIC’s MacHandwriter, a desktop pen extension to the Macintosh computer, is distributed by Apple Japan Inc. CIC has headquarters in Redwood Shores and has a subsidiary in Tokyo.

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CONTACT:
Communication Intelligence Corp., Redwood City
Germaine Gioia, 415/802-7888
Maurice Boucher, 800/567-5888
or
Acer Inc.
Brian Chong, 03/489-3188