Picking over the bones of their failed Taligent Inc and Kaleida Laboratories Inc investments IBM Corp and Apple Computer Inc have created Cupertino, California-based Object Technology Licensing Corp to license out whatever it can from what was developed up to Taligent’s demise in February. It has got about 80 patents now, and a further 300 pending in the US and elsewhere. The company is jointly owned by Apple and IBM. Taligent’s third investor, Hewlett-Packard Co, has retained its license rights but doesn’t have a share. The first technology, the CommonPoint object-oriented operating system environment and a couple of Kaleida’s multimedia ideas will be offered up in a couple of months. Object Technology Licensing has appointed Brian Naylor – ex-NCR Corp licensing chief – to head the three-person operation, which can also tap IBM and Apple’s technical people as it needs. There is a board meeting set for early October to sort out what is to be offered; the patents are at www.taligent .com.
