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The Let's Talk Patent of the Day goes to World Mobile Technologies, Inc. of Austin for a Fashion accessory with wireless signal alerting device
10/11/05

6,954,659 Fashion accessory with wireless signal alerting device
  Issued: October 11, 2005
  Filed: November 23, 2004
  U.S. Class: 455/567
Abstract:  A fashion accessory provides a visual alert for the presence of a mobile communication signal from a nearby but not physically connected communication device. The accessory includes a signaling assembly for providing a visual signal when a mobile communication signal is detected within a defined distance, an antenna connected to the signaling assembly and extending from it, and an elongated member configured for attaching the fashion accessory to a body part or personal article. The signaling assembly may include a circuit module with an LED providing a visible signal when an adjacent mobile communication device is transmitting a signal within the defined distance. The defined distance is selected so as to make the fashion accessory responsive only to signals from a mobile device within a user's personal space.

Posted by GEN-ERIC at 11:32:29 am into the following categories: Patents of the Day

The Computer Virus Education Patent of the Day goes to two Independent Inventors from California a Computer virus avoidance system and mechanism
10/11/05

6,954,858 Computer virus avoidance system and mechanism
  Issued: October 11, 2005
  Filed: December 22, 1999
  U.S. Class: 713/200
Abstract:  Nearly all computer viruses require an action by a computer user to infect and spread. The key is to educate users not to open e-mail attachments that might carry computer viruses. The key is behavior modification, as education is not sufficient. Effective behavior modification must have a means to reinforce the change and to measure how widespread the change is in a population. The invention is used to reinforce and measure the change in user behavior. The invention sends an e-mail with an attachment to e-mail users and creates a list of all users that open the attachment. The user is sent an e-mail with an attachment that looks similar to attachment that contain computer viruses. If the attachment is opened, an e-mail is sent to a specific e-mail address. This e-mail address collects all of the e-mail from users who have not changed behavior and need additional education or management attention.

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10/11/05
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10/11/05
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Sprint Nextel Files VoIP Patent Suit Against Vonage, Others
10/11/05

Sprint Nextel filed a patent-infringement lawsuit this week, seeking an injunction and unspecified damages against Vonage, Voiceglow and TheGlobe.com, all providers of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services. The suit accuses Vonage -- the largest U.S.-held independent provider of Internet-based telephony services -- and the two other companies of violating seven patents dealing with voice carried over data packets. Sprint Nextel filed the suit after year-long negotiations with the three companies fell through. The company now is seeking an injunction against its three competitors to prevent them from "further misappropriating" the technology.

Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:07:41 am into the following categories: In The News

US appeals court rejects rehearing of RIM-NTP case
10/11/05

A U.S. appeals court refused on Friday to reconsider a patent infringement ruling against Research In Motion Ltd. in a case that could halt U.S. sales of its popular BlackBerry wireless e-mail device. The Canadian firm had asked that all the judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit rehear and reconsider the ruling of a three-judge panel first issued in December. The case goes back to 2002, when patent holding company NTP successfully sued RIM in a lower court. That first ruling found RIM infringed on 16 claims tied to five NTP patents. NTP won an injunction in 2003, stayed pending appeal, to halt U.S. sales of the BlackBerry and shut down its service in the United States.

Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:06:05 am into the following categories: In The News

Court Rules for BioGenex in Ventana Suit
10/11/05

BioGenex Laboratories Inc., a private company which develops technologies for drug and life science research, said Tuesday an Arizona district court ruled in its favor in a patent infringement lawsuit against Ventana Medical Systems Inc. The ruling, known as a Markman Ruling, limits the scope of Tucson-based Ventana's patent for a research process known as automated staining. In the suit, Ventana had claimed that BioGenex's automated staining device infringes on its patent for a similar device. Ventana's tissue processors and staining instruments are used by cancer research centers and drug discovery labs.

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