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SourceDetective searches the Internet to defend against charges of copying

CUPERTINO, CA (June 3, 2015) - Software Analysis & Forensic Engineering Corporation, the leading provider of forensic tools for software copyright and trade secret analysis, recently earned a seventh patent covering its CodeSuite® tool for comparing software code to help detect copyright infringement.

US patent 9,043,375, “Searching the Internet for Common Elements in a Document in Order to Detect Plagiarism,” covers CodeSuite’s innovative SourceDetective® functionality. While other “software plagiarism detection” tools perform a comparison of code and provide an indication of copying, SourceDetective takes the analysis further by searching the Internet to determine whether code in two different programs – including open source code – might be third-party code.

CodeSuite is the only commercially successful tool for comparing computer source code and object code to find infringement. It has been used successfully in more than 70 intellectual property litigations worldwide, and is recognized by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) as a unique invention.

 “I developed CodeSuite to overcome the inaccuracies common to other tools that can result in false positives and false negatives,” says Bob Zeidman, president of SAFE Corporation and inventor of CodeSuite. “Too much is at stake for the people and companies involved in IP litigation to rely on false results of any kind.”

CodeSuite 4.7 is available now and can be purchased on a term license or project basis. Project pricing is based on the size of code analyzed and the specific function used for the analysis. More information, and free trial licenses, can be requested by contacting sales@SAFE-corp.com.