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05/31/05
6,901,436 Method, product, and apparatus for determining the availability of similar identifiers and registering these identifiers across multiple naming systems  05/31/05
6,899,671 Intravaginal stimulation apparatus  05/31/05
6,899,540 Threat image projection system  05/31/05
Orient Power Holdings, a Hong Kong-listed maker of home entertainment video and audio equipment and in-car electronic products, is being sued by Philips Electronics for more than US$60 million (HK$468 million) for breach of contract and patent infringement. Orient Power, which made and sold compact disc and digital videodisc players using Philips' patented products, reported fewer sales so it paid less royalties, law firm Herbert Smith, Philips' representative, said in a writ filed in the High Court. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:05:28 am into the following categories: In The News05/31/05
King Controls, a leading manufacturer of mobile satellite antennae systems for land and marine markets, today filed a patent suit against KVH Industries, Inc. (Nasdaq: KVHI - News) in Minnesota Federal District Court for infringing on three patents covering satellite locator systems for vehicles. U.S. Patent Nos. 6,538,612; 6,710,749; and 6,864,846 are owned by King Controls and are directed to methods and devices for automatically locating and tracking satellites for receiving direct broadcast satellite transmissions. In the lawsuit, King Controls seeks to stop KVH from infringing on its patents through the sale of its TracVision® products. King Controls is seeking injunctive relief in addition to monetary damages, costs, and attorneys' fees. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:04:38 am into the following categories: In The News05/31/05
Acticon Technologies LLC (Acticon) has recently reached an amicable settlement of its patent infringement claims with Dell Computer Corporation of Round Rock, TX, in connection with two of its “smart connector” patents. General Patent Corporation International (GPCI), a leading patent licensing and enforcement firm headquartered in Suffern, New York, represented Acticon in this transaction. “We have now obtained 125 settlements and license agreements for Acticon,” said Paul J. Lerner, GPCI’s Sr. Vice President and General Counsel, “and we look forward to licensing the remaining companies.” Acticon’s “smart connector” patents cover specific aspects of PC cards and other “smart connector” devices used in mobile computer communication, networking, and instrumentation control. GPCI has successfully represented Acticon in 22 litigations and over one hundred licensing negotiations related to these patents. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:03:24 am into the following categories: In The News05/31/05
Nautilus Group Inc., a maker of fitness equipment, vowed to appeal its patent-infringement claims against Icon Health and Fitness after a Seattle federal court dismissed the case on Thursday. The company said it will appeal the case - one of three Nautilus has filed against Icon - to the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, which has twice ruled in the company's favor on past claims. The dismissed case will not go to trial June 20 as previously scheduled. The case dismissal will have no bearing on operating plans or results, the company said. Nautilus said "vigorously protecting intellectual property is fundamental to any company committed to bringing a fast pace of innovation to their customers and industry." The company, which makes exercise equipment under the Bowflex, StairMaster and Nautilus brands, said it will continue to prosecute two separate trademark-infringement cases against Icon. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:02:21 am into the following categories: In The News05/24/05
6,898,598 Smart receipt  05/24/05
6,898,573 Tax escrow system for independent contractors  05/24/05
6,896,576 Yo-yo with shock suppression system  05/24/05
Microsoft Corp. illegally took technology used to link spreadsheet data between two of its programs from a Guatemalan inventor, lawyers said during opening statements at a jury trial that started on Tuesday. Carlos Armando Amado said in a lawsuit that he filed for a patent in 1990 for software that links Microsoft's Excel program with its Access database application via a single spreadsheet, and that he unsuccessfully tried to sell it to Microsoft two years later. Amado is seeking damages that could exceed $500 million in the lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court of Central California. Microsoft, based in Redmond, Washington, began using his software without permission in various versions of Access, such as Access 95, 97, 2000 and 2002, according to Amado, who said he created the technology while he was a graduate student at Stanford University. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:14:49 am into the following categories: In The News05/24/05
Broadcom Corporation, a provider of wired and wireless broadband communications semiconductors, announced that it has commenced federal litigation against Qualcomm Incorporated alleging that the San Diego-based company infringes 10 Broadcom patents related to wired and wireless communications and multimedia processing technologies. "Broadcom was an early pioneer in a broad range of wired and wireless communications and multimedia technologies, and has enabled the convergence of digital video, digital audio, Wi-Fi(R), Bluetooth(R), storage, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), and adaptive coding technologies in many markets, including advanced, multi-function cellular products and services," said Scott McGregor, Broadcom's President and CEO. "We believe that Qualcomm's current and next generation cellular baseband and radio frequency (RF) product lines infringe a number of our patents." Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:11:45 am into the following categories: In The News05/24/05
Shares of Boston Communications Group Inc., which provides billing and payment services to wireless carriers, plummeted Monday after the company lost a patent infringement case, potentially putting it in serious jeopardy. On Friday, the Woburn, Mass., company said a jury ruled that it had infringed on two patents owned by privately held Freedom Wireless Inc. and ordered Boston Communications to pay $128 million in damages. It also ruled that the patent infringement was willfully done, opening the door for a judge to triple the damages. Boston Communications said a final decision by a U.S. district judge is pending. It would appeal if the ruling was upheld. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:08:25 am into the following categories: In The News05/24/05
Acticon Technologies on Monday said it has resolved patent infringement claims against Dell regarding so-called smart connector devices, although Dell itself did not make the products that used the patents. Acticon, owned by General Patent Corporation International (GPCI), owns four U.S. patents and one Taiwanese patent related to PC cards and other connector devices used in mobile computer communication, networking, and instrumentation control. Dell has now purchased licensing rights for the patents, which are used in products Dell distributes from other manufacturers. The case never went to court. Dell joins IBM, Sony, Motorola, 3Com, and 124 other companies that have purchased licensing agreements from Acticon. But Dell did not actively infringe on Acticon’s patents. GPCI and Acticon, both based in Suffern, New York, claimed that Dell purchased these devices from manufacturers that made them without paying royalties to Acticon. “Dell was very cooperative and responded to our offer to them” to settle the case amicably, said GPCI CEO Alexander Poltorak. “We’ve been litigating these patents for many years.” Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:06:52 am into the following categories: In The News05/17/05
6,895,430 Method and apparatus for integrating resolution services, registration services, and search services  05/17/05
6,895,111 Evaluating graphic image files for objectionable content  05/17/05
6,895,324 Methods and apparatus for storing, accessing, generating and using information about speed limits and speed traps  05/17/05
Altiris will pay Symantec $10m to settle all pending patent infringement lawsuits between them. As part of the cross-licensing agreement, all claims and counterclaims since 1999 involving patent infringement between the two companies will be dismissed. The deal extends to Symantec subsidiary PowerQuest, an assignee in of the patents disputes. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:24:58 am into the following categories: In The News05/17/05
Toshiba and Microsoft have signed a cross-licensing pact covering computer and consumer electronics products technologies, the companies said Friday. The agreement was signed in late April and allows the companies to freely use a number of each other's patents, said Makoto Yasuda, a spokesman from Toshiba. Spokesmen from Toshiba and Microsoft declined to discuss how many patents were included in the agreement, or how long the agreement is valid. "I am afraid it's confidential," Yasuda said. The deal follows a December 2003 decision by Microsoft to enter into cross-licensing deals with key partners, said Kazunori Ishii, a spokesman at Microsoft's Japanese unit. Since then, Microsoft has also signed cross-licensing deals with a number of companies including Siemens SAP, he said. Toshiba isn't the first major Japanese electronics maker to sign such an agreement. Last December, Sony signed a five-year cross-licensing deal with Samsung Electronics covering a total of 24,000 patents owned by the two companies, as part of a move to reduce costs and potential friction between the two companies, Sony said. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:23:55 am into the following categories: In The News05/17/05
A Delaware jury has ruled against four of five patent infringement claims made two years ago by Lucent against network services vendor Extreme Networks. In a statement Tuesday, Santa Clara, Calif.-based Extreme Networks said the jury awarded Lucent $274,990 in damages for one patent infringement claim sought by Lucent but found the company not guilty on the other four charges. The award could have been as high as $16.4 million had the jury ruled against Extreme Networks on the other four patent infringement charges. Extreme Networks said the unspecified networking feature that led to the jury's award has been removed from the company's products for more than a year. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:22:14 am into the following categories: In The News05/17/05
ITC Judge Issues Initial Determination That Fortinet Infringes Trend Micro's Patent Involving Server-Based Antivirus Technology -- Recommends That the Commission Exclude Fortinet's Antivirus Firewall Products From United States and Issue Cease-and-Desist Order to Stop Further Infringements. Trend Micro, Inc., a global leader in antivirus and content security, has been informed that a U.S. International Trade Commission judge issued a decision in the company's favor in the unfair import proceeding Trend Micro brought against Fortinet. In his initial determination, the ITC judge determined that Fortinet's FortiGate antivirus firewall appliance products infringe Trend Micro's U.S. patent 5,623,600, covering server-based antivirus technology. As a result, the judge has recommended that the ITC issue an order prohibiting Fortinet from importing FortiGate products into the United States and a cease-and-desist order to stop Fortinet from infringing the patent in the United States. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:20:41 am into the following categories: In The News05/17/05
Remy International, Inc. has prevailed in its patent infringement lawsuit against Evensen Enterprises, Inc. of Mira Loma, California. The case against Evensen in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana in which Remy asserted infringement of various patents related to the GM-Remy automotive alternator technology was resolved by a settlement agreement between the parties. Pursuant to that agreement, Evensen has certified that, by virtue of the sale of its Orange County Alternators business to BBB of Mobile, Alabama, on June 4, 2004, Evensen ceased all infringing activity with regard to Remy's alternator and starter patents and has made a payment to Remy for past infringement. BBB has agreed to stop selling alternators and starters which infringe the Remy Patents and to purchase future related products from approved Remy supply channels. In return for Evensen's certification and payment, Remy dismissed its claims against Evensen. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:18:18 am into the following categories: In The News05/10/05
6,891,381 Human body: scanning, typing and profiling system  05/10/05
6,892,064 Method and system for presentation of content from one cellular phone to another through a computer network  05/10/05
6,892,206 Reduction of meta data in a network  05/10/05
A router company is suing Cisco for patent infringement in 110 of its products, claiming damages of $8.8 billion. ConnecTel sued Cisco last year over a set of technologies that ConnecTel founder Allen Kaplan invented in the 1990s. But the lawsuit is the first time it has named specific routing and switching products and monetary damages. Among the products named are Cisco's new Carrier Routing Systems core router technology; certain models of the 12000 series Internet routers; models of the Catalyst 6500 and 4000 series switches; discontinued products, like the LightStream 1010 ATM switches; and Cisco's IOS routing software. At the heart of the complaint is an intelligent data routing system that can choose the best data path and transmission method in real time, based on multiple factors including bandwidth, availability, security and the user's priority, according to the complaint. Kaplan applied for patents on the technology in 1996. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:08:40 am into the following categories: In The News05/10/05
Lottery and betting equipment maker Scientific Games Corp. said Monday that its subsidiary Scientific Games Royalty Corp. is suing GTECH Holdings Corp., the world's largest operator of lottery systems, for patent infringement. The lawsuit concerns the enforcement of Scientific Games' group participation multiplier patents, U.S. Patent Nos. 6,648,753 and 6,692,354 and GTECH's unauthorized and illegal use of same. Lorne Weil, Scientific Games' chairman and CEO, said, "It is our intention to vigorously protect our intellectual property whenever necessary. Many lotteries, the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL) and International Game Technology have already signed license agreements concerning these patents in recognition of our legal rights and it is time for GTECH to do so." Scientific said GTECH's systems for MUSL's Powerball Power Play and Keno Plus games violate its patents covering online lottery games that include an optional bonus wager. If a player who opts for the "bonus wager" wins a prize in the base game, the player's winnings get multiplied by a random amount. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:07:29 am into the following categories: In The News05/10/05
Stratagene Corporation, a California life-science firm, announced on Monday afternoon that it is suing Third Wave Technologies Inc., in Madison, over a patent issue. Third Wave sued Stratagene over the same technologies last September. The technologies involved are some of Third Wave's Invader products and Stratagene's FullVelocity. Both are molecular diagnostics systems. Stratagene said in a release that FullVelocity allows researchers to make copies of a gene, analyze DNA and RNA, and understand the relations of different genes. Stratagene is seeking monetary damages and a permanent injunction against sale of the specified Invader products, the release said. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:06:16 am into the following categories: In The News05/10/05
Advanced Medical Optics Inc., a maker of contact lenses and surgical products, on Friday said a court ordered Alcon Inc. to pay nearly $100 million in damages for infringing on two of its patents. Advanced Medical said it was awarded $94.8 million in damages and will seek a permanent injunction prohibiting Alcon from selling products with features that violate the patents, which cover certain phacoemulsification equipment used during cataract surgery. In a separate statement, Alcon said it believes the verdict was not supported by the evidence and is "incorrect as a matter of law." The company plans to ask the court to set aside the verdict and said it will appeal if necessary. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:04:55 am into the following categories: In The News05/10/05
EchoStar Communications Corp. has filed a lawsuit against California-based PVR specialist TiVo and the U.S. unit of South Korea's Humax, citing patent infringement. According to reports, EchoStar alleges that TiVo and Humax infringed four patents for digital video recording. The move comes more than a year after TiVo filed suit against EchoStar claiming infringement of a technology used to record one program while replaying another. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:03:52 am into the following categories: In The News05/10/05
The United States District Court for the Southern District of California has ruled that United States Patent No. 6,620,319 (the '319 patent), the subject of a patent infringement suit brought by ZENON against U.S. Filter, continues to be presumed valid. On October 8, 2003 ZENON filed a patent infringement action against U.S. Filter complaining of infringement of three ZENON owned patents relating to water treatment, most importantly, the '319 patent relating to membrane module construction. In the course of these proceedings, U.S. Filter among other things, alleged the invalidity of the '319 patent which if successful would have affected other patents in the same patent family. The parties recently agreed to a bench trial on the issue of the validity of the '319 patent. The trial was conducted in San Diego on April 27-28, 2005. A ruling from the Court was delivered on May 5, 2005 in which the Court ruled in favor of ZENON strongly refuting all of defendant U.S. Filter's contentions. ZENON CEO Andrew Benedek stated that "The decision clears perhaps the single most significant hurdle in our path toward proving our claims and our request for an injunction to stop infringement by U.S. Filter." Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:03:04 am into the following categories: In The News05/03/05
6,886,290 System for reducing the number of predator fish  05/03/05
6,889,216 Physical neural network design incorporating nanotechnology  05/03/05
6,886,740 Apparatus for calculating time periods  05/03/05
6,887,188 Virtual jump rope  05/03/05
Hewlett-Packard agreed on Monday to pay $325 million to EMC in connection with a series of patent infringement lawsuits dating back to 2001. The settlement stipulates that HP will either pay in cash or through the purchase of EMC products, such as the VMware line, during the next five years. The two companies also signed a five-year, cross-license agreement. The two companies have been embroiled in lawsuits since 2001. EMC filed a patent infringement lawsuit against a company called Storage Apps in 2000. HP acquired Storage Apps in 2001 and inherited the lawsuit; EMC won that case in May 2004, but HP appealed. In September 2002, HP sued EMC for software and hardware patent infringement. At the same time, EMC countersued, making similar allegations against HP. Then, in October 2004, HP filed another patent lawsuit against EMC. The agreement announced on Monday settles all the cases between the companies, said EMC spokesman Mark Fredrickson. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:14:57 am into the following categories: In The News05/03/05
Gillette Co. won another chance to try to force the Schick Quattro razor off U.S. market shelves and eliminate a competitor to its best-selling Mach3 product line. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit determined that Boston-based Gillette (NYSE: G) must get a new hearing in its bid for a court order to bar sales of the Quattro while it pursues a patent-infringement lawsuit against Schick, Bloomberg Business News reported. The court said Gillette might be entitled to such an order unless Schick can show the patent is invalid. The companies have been battling over razors since Schick, a unit of Energizer Holdings Inc., introduced the four-bladed Quattro in 2003 to compete with the three-bladed Mach3. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:12:56 am into the following categories: In The News05/03/05
Moving to protect its lucrative printer cartridge business, Seiko Epson has filed patent infringement lawsuits against two companies that manufacture replacement cartridges for its printers. Seiko Epson claims that certain cartridges made by Arcor, of Nantes, France, and Multi-Union Trading Co. Ltd., of Hong Kong, infringe on several of its cartridge-related patents. Seiko Epson, along with two U.S. affiliates, filed lawsuits against each of the companies in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon in Portland. The complaint against Arcor was filed Monday. It alleges that more than 30 cartridges produced by Arcor and its U.S. and German subsidiaries infringe on Seiko Epson patents. The complaint against Multi-Union was filed slightly earlier, on April 21, and expands on an prior suit filed against the company, which uses the PrintRite brand for its cartridges. Seiko Epson's original complaint was focused on 23 Multi-Union cartridges, and the latest adds a further 49 cartridges to the complaint.. The filings cite a total of 16 patents altogether. They are related largely to dot-matrix printers, but some cover ink-jet printers, according to copies of the documents. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:11:05 am into the following categories: In The News05/03/05
Cephalon, Inc. reported today that Sandoz, Inc. has notified Cephalon that it will no longer challenge Cephalon's U.S. particle-size modafinil patent. Instead, Sandoz said it intends to convert its abbreviated new drug application (ANDA) for approval of a generic equivalent of modafinil, the active ingredient contained in PROVIGIL(R) Tablets [C-IV], from a paragraph IV certification to a paragraph III certification. The effect of this conversion is that Sandoz will certify to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that it does not intend to market a generic form of modafinil until the applicable patent for modafinil listed in the Orange Book has expired in 2014. Therefore, it will no longer be necessary for Cephalon to continue to pursue its patent infringement litigation against Sandoz. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:06:33 am into the following categories: In The News
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