In the latest in what seems an unstoppable march, DataTreasury Corp. settled its outstanding patent infringement litigation in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas with NCR Corp., paying DataTreasury a fee and agreeing to license the Melville, L.I. company’s check imaging technology. DataTreasury said NCR had been infringing on DataTreasury’s patent rights. It’s the latest in a series of settlements stemming from a number of similar suits that DataTreasury filed in 2002.

DataTreasury, which has already settled its litigation against JP Morgan Chase & Co., Ingenico Group, and other firms that it says also infringed on its patent rights, is still suing several other big financial services firms– including First Data Corp., Citigroup, SVPCO and Bank of America, among others—on the same grounds.

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