NITV Prevails In Copyright Infringement Litigation

 Against Flood and Ryan

After a protracted legal battle, the U.S. Federal Court for the Southern District of Florida has found that the Global Voice Stress Analyzer (GVSA) is an infringement on the Computer Voice Stress Analyzer™ (CVSA^®).  The Court found that the GVSA is a copy of the CVSA software and that John Ryan of Australia; Patrick Flood, a former NITV instructor from California; International Truth Verification Systems Pty Ltd. (ITVS); and Final Analysis, LLC are guilty of copyright infringement.  A permanent injunction has been issued against Ryan, Flood, their entities, and their agents to prevent them from selling the GVSA or any other infringing version of it in the United States.  They were also found guilty of Trademark infringement.

Because of the finding and injunction by the federal court, any agency that purchased or acquired the GVSA, or any version of it, is required to surrender that system to the NITV as it has been found to contain software that is a pirated version of the CVSA in violation of US and international copyright laws.

Additionally, the court specifically prohibited Flood and Ryan and anyone working in active concert with either of them “from using CVSA or any colorable imitation thereof, such as the acronym GVSA, or any word or term which is confusingly similar thereto.”

The NITV has spent more than 20 years and considerable resources developing the CVSA and takes copyright infringement and theft of its intellectual property very seriously.  The NITV will continue to aggressively defend our intellectual property, regardless of the cost.  

As the company that built the profession of voice stress analysis, the NITV provides only the very best in time-tested and validated technology and training.  We appreciate the loyalty that the law enforcement community has shown us and look forward to the next 20 years of providing the best in customer service, equipment and training to the fine men and women fighting the good fight against those that would harm our families, communities, and our country.