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COUNTERPATH CORP FILES (8-K) Disclosing Other Events, Financial Statements and Exhibits(Edgar Glimpses Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Item 8.01 Other Events We have been awarded patent No. US 8,763,081 (titled 'Network Based Authentication') from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The patent protects our unique method of authenticating a Voice over IP (VoIP) softphone application on a device via a GSM based telephone network rather than via traditional username/password requirements, thereby strengthening the value of our Operator OTT (Over the Top) solution offerings and enabling mobile operators to offer a highly improved seamless VoIP user experience for its customers. Most mobile phones today use SIM for mobile authentication to verify that a mobile device can access the mobile network and use its services to make calls or send and receive text messages. However, third party applications that are installed on the device, such as Bria, have not traditionally been able to leverage the benefits of the SIM authentication method, and authentication has instead been performed with usernames and passwords or more complex two-factor methods such as SMS. Our company's latest patent for mobile authentication based on the SIM enables original equipment manufacturers (OEM) and service providers to include a unified communications app, such as Bria, as a built-in application on the mobile device which will 'just work' when the user turns on the device. A configuration and provisioning server solution, like the one offered by our company, will provide the user with a profile while SIM authentication will enable it to work on the provider's network, and only on that network, eliminating the need for other non-mobile centric authentication technologies. Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits (d) Exhibits 99.1 News Release dated July 21, 2014 2-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |