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The Energy Trading Patent of the Day goes to Fannie Mae of Washington D.C. and CO2e.com, LLC of NYC for a System and method for residential emissions trading
06/07/05

6,904,336 System and method for residential emissions trading
  Issued: June 7, 2005
  Filed: November 8, 2002
  U.S. Class: 700/286
Abstract:  The present invention is directed to a method of residential emissions trading and a residential emissions trading commodity. In particular, an embodiment of the present invention is a method for identifying, quantifying, and aggregating reductions in residential emissions into a tradable commodity. The step of quantifying the emissions reduction may further comprise the steps of measuring an energy savings resulting from the energy savings opportunity and calculating the emissions reduction resulting from the energy savings. The method may further comprise the steps of verifying the quantification of the emissions reduction and monitoring the residential energy savings opportunities and the quantification of the emissions reduction.

Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:32:36 pm into the following categories: Patents of the Day

The Best Route Patent of the Day goes to Honeywell International Inc. of New Jersey for Methods for solving the traveling salesman problem
06/07/05

6,904,421 Methods for solving the traveling salesman problem
  Issued: June 7, 2005
  Filed: April 26, 2001
  U.S. Class: 706/13
Abstract:  Solving a Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) by selecting a set of locations to visit, selecting a starting point and an ending point from the set of locations, applying a search method to the set of locations, and providing a route as a solution to the TSP, where the search method is a combinatoric approach to a genetic search and the search method simultaneously minimizes distance and time. The route starts and ends in different locations and completes in polynomial time, such as O(n+k), where k is a constant. The solution to the TSP has many applications, including finding distribution chains to satisfy customer demand for an Internet enterprise.

Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:31:25 pm into the following categories: Patents of the Day

The Speed Pick Patent of the Day goes to Independent Inventors from California and London for a Holding extension for adding mass to guitar pick
06/07/05

6,903,256 Holding extension for adding mass to guitar pick
  Issued: June 7, 2005
  Filed: September 2, 2003
  U.S. Class: 84/322
Abstract:  A pick-handle is attached to the to the "rear" edge of a conventional pick via a metal shaft. The handle portion is made to be comfortably grasped in the palm of the player's hand while the pick is held in the normal manner between the thumb and forefinger. Stringed instrument playing technique is enhanced by improved control over the pick and increased volume capability due to the increased mass effectively transmitted to the pick from the hand, wrist and arm of the player. Additionally, the invention reduces the strain on the thumb and forefinger by allowing the other fingers to supplement the grip, and also reduces the risk of the pick slipping out of playing position or totally escaping from the thumb/finger grasp. Attachment of the pick to the shaft may be implemented by a spring clip that allows easy removal of the pick and replacement by practically any commonly available pick of the player's choice.

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Reissue Applications Filed - 6/7/2005
06/07/05
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Requests for Ex Parte Reexamination - 6/7/2005
06/07/05
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Calif. jury tells Microsoft to pay $9 million judgment in patent case
06/07/05

A federal jury in California has slapped Microsoft Corp. with a nearly $9 million judgment in a patent infringement lawsuit filed by a Guatemalan inventor. Carlos Amado, 50, sued the Redmond-based software maker in March 2003, claiming Microsoft infringed on a patent he received in 1994 for software linking the company's Excel spreadsheet and Access database programs. Amado developed the program while he was a student at Stanford in 1990 and offered to sell it to Microsoft two years later, but the company declined, according to the law firm of Morrison & Foerster, which represented Amado. Amado, who had sought $500 million in damages, alleged in a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana, Calif., that Microsoft added an application that mimicked his software to the company's 1995 version of Office, the suite of programs that includes Excel and Access.

Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:16:31 am into the following categories: In The News

Thermage and Syneron Resolve Patent Litigation
06/07/05

Thermage(R) and Syneron today announced that they have reached an agreement, resolving lawsuits that claimed Syneron infringed certain patents held by Thermage and that Thermage infringed a patent held by Syneron. The Thermage lawsuit, originally filed on July 23, 2004 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, sought damages and injunctive relief for infringement of six Thermage patents that Thermage alleged were infringed by Syneron's systems for non-invasively treating skin. The Thermage patents asserted in the lawsuit were U.S. Patent No. 6,749,624, (the '624 patent), which claims methods and devices for treating skin using either light or radiofrequency (RF) energy or both, as well as five additional patents added in a subsequent filing by Thermage on December 3, 2004, which relate to methods and devices for tightening skin and achieving other beneficial improvements in skin and tissue structures, all without damaging the skin surface.

Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:15:02 am into the following categories: In The News

Tercica Seeks to Block Insmed Drug
06/07/05

Drug makers Tercica Inc. and Genentech Inc. said Tuesday they asked a federal court to block Insmed Inc. from bringing its SomatoKine growth therapy to market ahead of a pending patent infringement lawsuit. Insmed and the Tercica-Genentech team are both awaiting approval from the Food and Drug Administration for drugs that treat extreme short stature caused by a rare genetic hormone deficiency. The agency has granted an accelerated priority review of both therapies, with a ruling expected on SomatoKine by July 3 and on Tercica's Increlex by Aug. 31.

Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:13:13 am into the following categories: In The News
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