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The Cool Shit Patent of the Day goes to an Independent Inventor from Los Angeles for a Doggie poop freeze wand
04/26/05

6,883,462 Doggie poop freeze wand
  Issued: April 26, 2005
  Filed: April 29, 2003
  U.S. Class: 119/161
Abstract:  The invention discloses a device and vehicle for decomposition and discard of animal waste. It's an elongated hollow tubular housing made of aluminum or PVC, a detachable cylinder filled with a compressed freezing chemical or refrigerant, or compressed liquid enzymes, which is inserted into the hollow housing, an operation button exposed for use, empty space at the handle end for the placement of plastic trash bags, and a threaded top on the end of the housing encapsulating the empty space. The decomposition device is aimed at the animal waste to be removed, and the operation button is pressed, which in turn manipulates the pressurized freezing chemical or enzymes, forcing the contents out of the opposite end, to freeze or breakdown the animal waste, dependent upon the choice of cylinder.

Posted by GEN-ERIC at 11:15:50 am into the following categories: Patents of the Day

The TeleLock Patent of the Day goes to Bellsouth Intellectual Property Corporation of Delaware for Activation of electronic lock using telecommunications network
04/26/05

6,885,738 Activation of electronic lock using telecommunications network
  Issued: April 26, 2005
  Filed: February 25, 2003
  U.S. Class: 379/102.06
Abstract:  Methods and systems are disclosed for activating an electronic lock in an intelligent switched telecommunications network having a plurality of Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN) components. A call is received from a device communicating with the telecommunications network. The call is from a calling party to a called party. Processing of the call within the telecommunications network is suspended. A database is queried for a telephone number of the called party. The database stores telephone numbers of called parties subscribing to a lock service provided by a telecommunications service provider. The lock service allows a user to remotely activate an electronic lock using the telecommunications network. If the query is successful, processing of the call within the telecommunications network is resumed. The call is used to activate the electronic lock.

Posted by GEN-ERIC at 11:15:05 am into the following categories: Patents of the Day

The Big Brother D.J. Patent of the Day goes to Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. of Houston for a Monitoring of crowd response to performances
04/26/05

6,885,304 Monitoring of crowd response to performances
  Issued: April 26, 2005
  Filed: July 29, 2002
  U.S. Class: 340/573.1
Abstract:  Monitoring apparatus and methods for monitoring the reaction of people to a performance use two or more monitoring devices of different types. Output signals from the monitoring devices are combined to produce at least one crowd reaction signal indicative of the reaction of those people to the performance. Particularly appropriate types of monitoring device are described, as is automatic performance generating apparatus, such an automatic DJ, adapted to use crowd reaction signals to modify performances.

Posted by GEN-ERIC at 11:14:23 am into the following categories: Patents of the Day

Requests for Inter Partes Reexamination - 4/26/2005
04/26/05
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Requests for Ex Parte Reexamination Filed - 4/26/2005
04/26/05
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Inventor's patent suit nets $1.35 Billion
04/26/05

Medtronic Inc. ended a long-running patent fight Friday by agreeing to pay $1.35 billion to a Los Angeles doctor who invented much of its spinal-treatment technology. The settlement with Dr. Gary K. Michelson and his company, Karlin Technology, calls for Medtronic to pay $800 million to buy spinal-fusion technology and $550 million to settle the legal claims. Michelson had sought $1.7 billion when he sued Medtronic, and a jury awarded him about $510 million in punitive and compensatory damages last fall, saying Medtronic broke agreements that cover an implant used to treat damaged or diseased spinal discs. He had claimed Medtronic breached patent agreements he made with spinal implant maker Sofamor Danek a decade ago before it was acquired by Medtronic in 1999.

Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:20:45 am into the following categories: In The News

Dolby Labs prevails in patent suit with Lucent
04/26/05

Dolby Laboratories Inc. has announced it has received a favorable from that the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California stating the company did not infringe on two patents belonging Lucent Technologies Inc. relating to Dolby compression technology. The Court concurred with a request by Dolby (San Francisco, Calif.) for a summary judgement the company did not infringe on U.S. Patent Nos. 5,627,938 and 5,341,457. Lucent alleged that Dolby's AC-3 audio compression technology required licenses to use these patents. Dolby originally filed a lawsuit against Lucent in May 2001 claiming the patents are invalid. In August 2002, Lucent filed a counterclaim alleging Dolby directly infringed on both patents and induced others to also infringe upon the patents.

Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:19:28 am into the following categories: In The News

Microsoft faces patent claim over JPEG image format
04/26/05

Microsoft Corp. faces a patent infringement claim from a small Texas company over technology that's used in JPEG files, one of the most common image formats. Forgent Networks Inc. of Austin filed suit in the U.S. District Court for Eastern Texas, said Michael Noonan, director of investor relations at Forgent. The patent, which expires in October next year, was granted in 1987 to Forgent unit Compression Labs Inc., Noonan said. Microsoft earlier this month filed for a declaratory judgment for non-infringement.

Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:17:55 am into the following categories: In The News

Altana sues Sun Pharma over pantoprazole patent
04/26/05

German drugmaker Altana has filed a lawsuit against India's Sun Pharmaceutical Industries alleging patent infringement on Altana's top drug, anti-ulcer treatment pantoprazole, it said on Friday. An Altana spokesman said that the company and its U.S. partner Wyeth had filed the lawsuit against Sun in a New Jersey court. The lawsuit was in response to Sun's so-called paragraph IV generic application in the United States, seeking approval for a copycat version of Protonix, the brand name under which Wyeth sells pantoprazole in the United States. A generic application with a paragraph IV certification means that the applicant is claiming that a patent is invalid or not challenged by its product.

Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:16:27 am into the following categories: In The News
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