Avistar Communications - An Open Forum

Congratulations on the positive NetworkWorld artic...

2009-02-26T16:04:00.000-05:00

Congratulations on the positive NetworkWorld article, too, http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/38857.

Its really a great achievement of sharing the desk...

2009-02-20T02:23:00.000-05:00

Its really a great achievement of sharing the desktop, it helps us a lot in different perspective, thanks!

Vish thanks for the question.Avistar monitors all ...

2008-12-22T17:13:00.000-05:00

Vish thanks for the question.

Avistar monitors all announcements of
products such as Cisco's Tele Presence, and are of course evaluating any possible coverage by our patents--as we do with any and all such products.

Also our most recently issued presence-based messaging patents include all of the Microsoft asserted prior art used in their request for re-exam. So our patent portfolio is so much stronger than it was not only because of the Microsoft rejections from the PTO, not only because of the new patents in VoIP and presence but also because the financial condition of the firm means we are no longer in a rush to find some form of funding.

Re our friends at Microsoft - As you
recall most of Microsoft's re-exam requests were rejected by the PTO as without merit; we continue to talk with them but we are in no rush now. Furthermore, although we have not yet had a response from the PTO on Microsoft's request to reconsider 5 patents which the PTO had previously rejected for re-exam, this is not unusual, as the process generally takes several months.

We remain very confident of the portfolio's strength and coverage.

Mr MossI applaud your enthusiasm. I'm a patient AV...

2008-12-19T22:13:00.000-05:00

Mr Moss

I applaud your enthusiasm. I'm a patient AVSR shareholder.

1) Do you have any comments on Cisco's telepresence? Does Avistar's patents apply here?

2) Is there any update on the few patents that Microsoft has asked USPTO to reconsider?

Regards
Vish

Thank you for providing our Inaugural post, and th...

2008-12-19T16:10:00.000-05:00

Thank you for providing our Inaugural post, and thank you for your interest and support in AVSR.

"Timely question... just today (12/19/08) Nasdaq announced the following: "given the continued extraordinary market conditions, NASDAQ is extending the suspension of the bid price and market value of publicly held shares requirements. Enforcement of these rules is scheduled to resume on Monday, April 20, 2009". Although this does not directly effect us, as our issue with Nasdaq's listing criteria relates to the $35M market cap rule (which for Avistar means a stock price at $1.02.. effectively the same price position as the "waived" dollar bid price), it does highlight that many good companies are being adversely impacted by the volatility/collapse of the overall equity market.

Having said that, we are not going to be distracted.. doing the right things in our business (which we believe we are doing, and we believe our sequential performance confirms) is also the right set of activities for shareholder value and our Nasdaq position. Our, my job, is to fix the company and we are making great progress. I agree with Tom Seibal when he said - the stock price will look after itself. We will continue to share our progress with the market but if there's no one listening we will not change strategy simply to push up a stock price. So we are focusing at building a successful, profitable company that staff and shareholders want to be involved with. And we are making great progress with this - I genuinely feel we are out of the woods in addressing and solving the very difficult challenges that this management team inherited in January. We hope and expect that we will be able to maintain our position on Nasdaq - a process that will take a few months - but we won't be doing anything that would benefit our listing but hurt our business prospects.

Great idea, this blog. Sounds to me like you're do...

2008-12-18T10:08:00.000-05:00

Great idea, this blog. Sounds to me like you're doing all the right things and I'm in for the long haul. As a small investor (several thousand shares) who has been on board for a long time, I wonder if you could offer some thoughts about what a potential de-listing would mean in terms of the business itself and the impact on shareholders?