Ronald A. Katz

Ronald A. Katz ( born 1935 or 1936) is an American inventor, entrepreneur and president of Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing LP.

His inventions for which he holds over 50 U.S. patents, he developed mainly in the field of automated call center technology, and they relate to toll-free numbers ( toll free numbers ), automated call routing, automated call distribution, voice response systems, Computer Telephony integration, speech recognition, and much more.

In 1961, Katz co-founder of Tele Credit, Inc., the first company that made ​​it possible for merchants, checks to automatically check by phone without having to take the assistance of a live operator to complete.

In 1988 he formed a partnership with American Express, and later the First Data Corporation emerged from the.

Later he founded the Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing, LP ( RAKTL ) with the main purpose of licensing its patent portfolio to companies that use automated call center technology. To date, over 150 companies acquired such licenses and paid more than a billion USD in royalties, including AT & T, Bank of America, Citibank, Delta Air Lines, Hewlett Packard, Home Shopping Network, IBM, Microsoft, Sears, Roebuck and Company, Wachovia, Wells Fargo and TD Ameritrade.

Katz is accused because of his selfish and aggressive approach patent Trollerei. His patent descriptions usually have a circumference of 20 to 40 pages, followed by hundreds of pages that describe the claims that accrue. Companies that refuse to use its licenses, and are sometimes covered by his lawyers with processes.

For several of its patents an official review was arranged by the Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

• Inventor
• History of communication technology
• Americans
• Born in the 20th century
• Man