Hallmark.com Licenses Tumbleweed Patents for Online Greeting Card Delivery

REDWOOD CITY, CA - January 2, 2002 - Hallmark Cards, Incorporated and Tumbleweed® Communications Corp. (Nasdaq:TMWD), a leading provider of secure content management solutions for enabling the business Internet, today announced a new licensing agreement. The agreement will enable Hallmark.com, a subsidiary of Hallmark Cards, Incorporated, to license Tumbleweed's patented personalized URL (PURL) technology for delivery of greeting cards over the Internet.

The licensing agreement covers Hallmark.com offerings that provide for or facilitate document delivery over the Internet, and that include the provision for sending an email delivery notification to the recipient. "Hallmark e-cards are a very popular way to stay in touch this holiday season. Hallmark.com gives our consumers a personal and secure e-card sending experience," said John Sullivan, president of Hallmark.com.

"We are pleased to work with an established industry leader such as Hallmark, to enable them to bring the best technology features to their customers through our licensed technology," said Jeff Smith, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Tumbleweed Communications Corp. "This is the third instance this year that we've successfully licensed our PURL patent, which allows online providers to uniquely bind content to a digital identity, enabling a host of applications such as online marketing and secure content delivery. We will continue to further develop and enforce our patent portfolio as our research and development team continues to introduce innovative technology solutions.

About Tumbleweed
Tumbleweed Communications' Patent PortfolioPursuant to the agreement, Hallmark licensed the Tumbleweed U.S. Patent No. 6,192,407 for "Private, Trackable URLs for Directed Document Delivery" and U.S. Patent No. 5,790,790 for the "Electronic Document Delivery System in which Notification of Said Electronic Document is Sent to a Recipient Thereof." Tumbleweed's patent portfolio includes 6 granted U.S. patents and 19 U.S. patent applications. In addition to those mentioned above, granted patents include: Patent No. 6,061,448 "Method and System for Dynamic Server Document Encryption" granted May 9, 2000, Patent No. 6,119,137 "Distributed Dynamic Document Conversion Server" granted September 12, 2000 and Patent No. 6,151,675 "Method and Apparatus for Effecting Secure Document Format Data Conversion" granted November 21, 2000.

About Hallmark
Kansas City-based Hallmark is known throughout the world for its greeting cards, related personal expression products, and television's most honored and enduring dramatic series, the Hallmark Hall of Fame. The company's Hallmark Entertainment, Inc. subsidiary is the world's leading producer of movies and mini-series for television; its Binney & Smith subsidiary, maker of CrayolaŽ crayons and markers, is the leading producer of art materials for children and students. Through licensing leadership and joint ventures, Hallmark continues to expand its product formats and distribution avenues. The company, which has wholly owned subsidiaries in 12 countries, publishes products in 30 languages and distributes them in more than 100 countries. In 2000, Hallmark reported consolidated net revenues of $4.3 billion.

About Tumbleweed Communications Corp.
Tumbleweed is a leading provider of solutions for managing secure communication and collaboration to enable the business Internet. Tumbleweed's robust policy-based framework empowers organizations to safely share and protect critical information, increase customer loyalty and privacy and dramatically reduce costs. Tumbleweed is trusted by 1,000 blue-chip customers including American Express, JP Morgan Chase & Co., Chevron, Datek Online, the European Union's Joint Research Council, US Food and Drug Administration, John Deere, Merrill Lynch, Nike, Northern Trust, NTT, Salomon Smith Barney, Travelers, United Parcel Service, and seven of the world's largest postal services. Eight of the Fortune 10 and 100 of the Fortune 500 are Tumbleweed customers. Tumbleweed Communications was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA with offices around the world.

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