UB Unionbancal Corp

LOS ANGELES, May 29 /PRNewswire/ -- UnionBanCal Corporation, (NYSE:UB), a bank holding company whose primary subsidiary is Union Bank of California, has taken a license under the patent portfolio held by Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing, L.P. and licensed through its affiliate, A2D, L.P. The license covers services offered by UnionBanCal in the "Financial Services Call Processing" Field-of-Use, including customer service delivered through automated systems and live agents. Other terms of the license were not disclosed. The patents held by Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing, L.P. cover a wide range of interactive technology including automated forms of: customer service, securities trading, merchandising, prepaid services, telephone conferences, registration, home shopping, as well as functions involved in securing information from databases by telephone, interactive cable transactions, and various other uses of toll free and local numbers. "The technologies claimed in these patents have enabled a variety of the key features we offer our customers to make the process of getting telephone based support efficient and secure," said Barbara Hiehle, Executive Vice President, Customer Services Division, Union Bank of California, the wholly owned banking subsidiary of Licensee, UnionBanCal Corporation. Ronald A. Katz stated, "We welcome UnionBanCal Corporation to the significant number of financial services companies who have purchased license rights under this portfolio." There are over 150 companies with license rights under this portfolio, including over 15 energy and utility companies. Companies with license rights under this portfolio include: Advanta Corp., Alltel Corporation, American Century, American Express, Automatic Data Processing, Inc., AT&T Corp., Bank of America Corporation, BB&T Corporation, Capital One Services Inc., Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless, Certegy Inc., Dell Inc., Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc., Delta Air Lines, Inc., Edward D. Jones & Co., L.P., Equifax Inc., Excel Communications Inc., First Data Corporation, First National Bank of Omaha, First Tennessee National Corporation, The Gallup Organization, Hewlett-Packard Company, Home Shopping Network Inc., Household International, Inc., HSBC Bank USA, International Business Machines (IBM), KeyCorp, LaSalle Bank Corporation, Marriott International, Inc., MCI Inc., Mediacom Communications Corporation, Mellon Financial Corporation, Merck & Co., Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., Metris Companies Inc., Microsoft, MoneyGram Payment Systems Inc., Nationwide, OppenheimerFunds, Inc., People's Bank, PetMed Express, Inc., The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc., Principal Financial Group, Inc., Prudential Financial, Inc., QVC, Inc., Sears, Roebuck and Co., Shop At Home, Inc., Sprint Corporation, SouthTrust Bank, Sunoco, Inc., Synovus, Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America, TD Ameritrade Holding Corporation, T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., The Vanguard Group, Inc., Verizon California Inc. and its affiliates, Wachovia Corporation, and Wells Fargo & Company. Mr. Katz is the named inventor on a large number of patents primarily in the fields of telecommunications and computing. He also formed Telecredit, Inc., the nation's first on-line real time credit and check cashing authorization system, and was awarded a patent as co-inventor of that technology. Based in San Francisco, UnionBanCal Corporation (NYSE:UB) is a bank holding company with assets of $52.6 billion at December 31, 2006. Its primary subsidiary, Union Bank of California, N.A., had 321 banking offices in California, Oregon and Washington, and two international offices at December 31, 2006. The company's Web site is located at http://www.unionbank.com/. DATASOURCE: Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing, L.P. CONTACT: Brian Rivette for Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing, L.P., +1-310-247-8191, ; or Barbara Hiehle, Executive Vice President, Customer Service Division, of UnionBanCal Corporation, +1-323-720-7103 Web site: http://www.unionbank.com/

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