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by btmerr 4139 days ago
They own or co-own the patent(s). Last I checked they were still battling it out in court.

The relevant legislation that enabled Remote Deposit Capture (RDC) is the Check21 act, which you can learn about here: http://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/regcc-faq-check...

In theory, anyone can build a system to deposit checks via check images, but software/process patents are a (mostly bad) thing. :(