The idea was to patent a unique copy protection system, developed by Stefan Mankefors, PhD, and then either license the technology or develop it into a company. Eventually, Secureon was founded in October 2001 by investors and entrepreneurs from Chalmers. In 2003, Secureon was run as a restart project at CSE. A first product shipment occurred in 2003, and continued in 2004 with the exhibition at Comdex Scandinavia and the announcement of more customer and partner agreements. In the summer of 2004, Secureon was acquired by Gatespace Telematics AB. During 2007 new versions of the three products Lime, Lime Enterprise and Lime SDK was released.
The product, known as Lime, is an easy-to-use licensing tool enabling software on demand. Lime helps companies explore the true potential of their business by giving them the chance to sell their software in the way their customers wants to buy it. A company can use traditional licensing models, subscription or usage-based models. They can generate and track licenses electronically; only monitor usage or enforce rights by preventing unauthorized use with product activation. With innovative customers such as Compumine, Craft Animations and Solme, Lime is established in the market place.
