CIC and Samsung Jointly Announce License Agreement for Pen-Based Software

October 16, 1991 — Communication Intelligence Corp. (CIC) and Samsung Electronic Company, Ltd. (Samsung) Wednesday jointly announced the signing of a licensing agreement for Samsung to use CIC’s Handwriter Multi-lingual Recognition System, Multiple Operating Environment Interfaces, PenDOS Pen-Based Operating Environment and Handwriter On-Line Dynamic Signature Verification System.

This agreement allows thousands of currently existing standard DOS applications to be used immediately on Sam-sung’s new PenMaster 386-based notepad computer.

“Samsung’s participation will accelerate the introduction of pen-based computing to the mass market in a most economic fashion,” said James Dao, CIC President and Chief Executive Officer.

“Samsung’s mass production strength will quickly bring down the manufacturing costs for the new generation of note-pad computers.”

Heon H. Chung, Executive Director of Samsung’s U.S. PC Research and Development Center, said ”CIC’s multiple operating environment interface and multilingual Handwriter Recognition System and related software will allow our PenMaster computer to operate with CIC’s PenDOS, Microsoft Corp.’s Windows for Pen and Go Corp.’s PenPoint.

“Our customers can immediately apply the thousands of DOS and Windows applications already in use in the marketplace, as well as future applications being developed for PenPoint.”

Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., Samsung Information Systems America Inc. markets a broad range of electronics products, including personal and portable computers, local-area network hardware, monitors, printers, disk drives and other peripherals. Regional sales offices are in Saddlebrook, N.J.; Fullerton, Calif.; and Atlanta.

The parent company, Samsung Electronics Company Ltd. (SEC), Seoul Korea, is a silicon-to-systems manufacturer of electronics products, including telecommunications devices, systems and peripherals.

Since 1981, the company has sold 15 million computer products including 14 million monitors. SEC is a part of the Samsung Group, a Seoul-based conglomerate with $45 billion annual sales from electronics, chemical, food-processing, textile and information products, services and international trading activities. Fortune magazine ranked the Samsung Group as the 14th largest company in the world in 1990.

CIC was founded in 1981. The company is headquartered in Redwood Shores, CA and has an international subsidiary, CIC Japan Inc., in Tokyo. CIC is the leading supplier of multi-lingual handwriting recognition software. CIC’s products include Handwriter Recognition System, PenDOS and MacHandwriter Pen Operating Environments and Handwriter On-Line Dynamic Signature Verification System.

CIC’s stock is traded on the Vancouver Stock Exchange under the symbol CUA.B and NASDAQ under the symbol CICIB.

CONTACT:
Communication Intelligence Corp., Redwood Shores, Calif.
Marie Martin, 415/802-7888
Samsung Information Systems America Inc., San Jose
Patty Liebscher, 408/434-5505