“To all those who have expressed concerns over the Erkios Systems intellectual property being stolen by ‘China’ – Today, we received notification that we have an official Notice of Allowance from China,” Erkios CEO Sean Null announced Monday on LinkedIn. “This means the FortiFi system is recognized by the Chinese government as a novel invention and will be protected by a patent issued from China.”
Null did not respond to requests for a timely interview, so the scope and details of any alleged patent infringement activity is unclear. The U.S. Patent and Trademark office issued Null and partner Philip Van der Straeten a patent in May, 2018 for a “port security device for computing devices and methods of operating such.”
“Honeywell has actually cited my patent in one of their recent patents,” Null told the 4thEst8 in an exchange this March. “We have also start(ed) and are upon completion of the PCT process to nationalize the patent in the EU, India and China.”
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Patent number 9,965,655 is behind the company’s physical access control device called FortiFi RJ-45. The company also registered a low powered transmitter with the FCC called EPRJ45. An FCC ID is the product ID assigned by the Federal Communications Commission to identify wireless products in the market.
According to the site Zoominfo.com the Kansas City company has six employees and about a million dollars in revenue.
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