Bermuda-incorporated RPost and Swiss Post have announced the resolution of a legal matter over company patents and trademarks.

RPost originally brought a lawsuit against Swiss Post and Swiss Post Solutions, a unit of Swiss Post, alleging infringement of several RPost patents and its federally-registered 'registered email' trademark.

But RPost dismissed its action against the two entities under a confidential settlement.

"Swiss Post will no longer be offering it's secure, verified, and third-party authenticated email services in the US market," said Zafar Khan, CEO of RPost. "We are pleased that Swiss Post takes intellectual property matters very seriously and has elected to work with RPost in a productive manner."

RPost and Swiss Post have agreed to work to resolve issues relating to RPost's intellectual property in Europe. RPost holds 27 patents worldwide with 17 in Europe, including two in Switzerland.

Registered Email® services by RPost® provide the sender legally valid and court-admissible evidence of delivery, content, and timing of any document or notice sent by email, without requiring recipients to download any software, click links, or visit special websites to open and read messages.