Direct pay, s.r.o. and our patent:

A patent is an intellectual property that can only be granted to an invention which is considered new and a result of an industrially usable innovative activity. An invention is considering a new one if it hasn’t been a part of any other ‘state of the art’ technology at the time of filing patent applications.

The ‘state of the art’ technology is everything that was published before the patent application filing date, whether in the Czech Republic or anywhere else abroad.

Direct pay s.r.o. is the owner of the invention patent No. CZ 299351 B6.
The inventor of the invention - protected by Patent No. CZ 299351 B6 - was the first in the world to practically describe the usable idea of an on-line contactless transactions’ software (payments, transfers) without the need to use a hardware chip in a mobile phone. The patent application was filed at the Industrial Property Office on 26.7.2007 and the patent for the invention was granted on 21.5.2008.

“In 2007, the IPO conducted a full, global search to grant this patent, essentially in accordance with their duties. Based on this copyrighted work, no similar documents or applications were found that

would prevent the IPO from granting a patent to Direct pay s.r.o.” Quote by Martin Cechl, Managing Director

Our history:

In 2002, Direct pay s.r.o. dedicated its activities towards the mobile payments’ sector and authorized PATENTSERVIS Praha a.s. to research mobile phone payments via SMS. MEGA-TEL AG from Switzerland was one of the companies considered by Direct pay s.r.o. with business potential. After personal negotiations with MEGA-TEL AG in Zürich, Direct pay s.r.o. acquired licence for payments made via SMS messages (EP 1 178 444 B1), for which we paid license fees until 2006. The patent was granted to MEGA-TEL AG on 3.3.2004.

In 2006, we withdrew from the contract with MEGA-TEL AG and started to develop payment applications into mobile phones. During this period, we have invested significant amounts in developing platform and market research.

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As a result, the trademark EMFT (Electronic Mobile Funds Transfer) was filed on March 16. 2007, which was registered on 10.10.2007 and filed its own patent on July 26, 2007, which was subsequently issued on 21.5.2008 (CZ 299351 B6)." Quote by Martin Cechl, Managing Director

Patent No. CZ 299351 B6 protects the procedure founded on the execution of any transaction taking place via a mobile application server (application server) - see Patent Document

In 2007, it was difficult to imagine that data transferring will be readily available to everyone thus enable SW payments from a smartphone. The “App Store” idea in iOS platform was put into operation on 10.7.2008 - about two months after the patent was already granted. Google Play was created at 22.10. 2008, even three months later than "App Store".

A project using this invention and protected by a patent owned by Direct pay s.r.o. was launched in 2009, in the form of a mobile application called dZone. Direct pay, s.r.o. as the first in Europe introduced the use of this patent-protected invention for municipal payments via a mobile application. The application, rightfully utilising a patented invention and owned by the operator was used for the sale of electronic tickets & electronic parking tickets in the following cities: České Budějovice, Liberec, Prague and Ústí nad Labem.

In November 2013, the dZone App was renamed to Sejf and launched the operation of electronic ticketing sales system, introducing it to the above-mentioned cities as well as in Brno’s city Public Transit Company.