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The Smelled It Dealt It Patent of the Day goes to an Independent Inventor from Washington for an Amusement device that senses odorous gases in a bathroom
11/22/05

6,966,840 Amusement device that senses odorous gases in a bathroom
  Issued: November 22, 2005
  Filed: January 10, 2002
  U.S. Class: 472/56
Abstract:  A novelty device that makes humorous statements when a person is having a bowel movement in a confined bathroom. The device includes an automated character, such as a bird in a birdcage, a skunk with a gasmask or some other character. Within the device is a gas sensor for detecting at least one gas emitted during a bowel movement. The device also includes a speaker for transmitting an audible message. When gases from a bowel movement are detected, audible statements are transmitted and synchronized movements are effected in the automated character.

Posted by GEN-ERIC at 11:22:55 am into the following categories: Patents of the Day

The Credit Tracking Patent of the Day goes to Providian Financial Corporation of San Francisco for a Method and system for creating and maintaining an index for tracking files relating to people
11/22/05

6,968,348 Method and system for creating and maintaining an index for tracking files relating to people
  Issued: November 22, 2005
  Filed: May 28, 2002
  U.S. Class: 707/203
Abstract:  A computer system creates and maintains an index for tracking information relating to individuals. Such information can include, but is not limited to, social security numbers, names, address information, credit bureau identification numbers, and credit history information on individuals. The invention employs logical rules to this information in order to create and maintain a set of files for each individual. The logical rules can include social security rules, geography rules, and address ranking rules. The invention is designed to evaluate slight variations in information very carefully in order to insure that appropriate files are assigned the same index identification number or that appropriate records are assigned separate and different index identification numbers as a situation warrants. The present invention is designed to maintain numerous files for each individual being tracked instead of merging and purging files as is done in the conventional art.

Posted by GEN-ERIC at 11:21:40 am into the following categories: Patents of the Day

The Pitch Recognition Patent of the Day goes to iRobot Corporation of Massachusetts for a Song-matching system and method
11/22/05

6,967,275 Song-matching system and method
  Issued: November 22, 2005
  Filed: June 24, 2003
  U.S. Class: 84/616
Abstract:  A song-matching system, which provides real-time, dynamic recognition of a song being sung and providing an audio accompaniment signal in synchronism therewith, includes a song database having a repertoire of songs, each song of the database being stored as a relative pitch template, an audio processing module operative in response to the song being sung to convert the song being sung into a digital signal, an analyzing module operative in response to the digital signal to determine a definition pattern representing a sequence of pitch intervals of the song being sung that have been captured by the audio processing module, a matching module operative to compare the definition pattern of the song being sung with the relative pitch template of each song stored in the song database to recognize one song in the song database as the song being sung, the matching module being further operative to cause the song database to download the unmatched portion of the relative pitch template of the recognized song as a digital accompaniment signal; and a synthesizer module operative to convert the digital accompaniment signal to the audio accompaniment signal that is transmitted in synchronism with the song being sung.

Posted by GEN-ERIC at 11:20:32 am into the following categories: Patents of the Day

Guidelines for Subject Matter Eligibility
11/22/05
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Executive Summary-Search Template Project
11/22/05
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Court Sides with Corning
11/22/05

Corning Inc. announced that the US District Court for the District of Delaware has ruled that SRU Biosystems of Woburn, Mass., infringed on a patent exclusively licensed to Corning for optical biosensors that enable label-independent detection of chemical, biochemical and biological substances in a sample. The court ruled that the patent is valid, and also found that SRU induced patent infringement through its testing activities with a potential customer.

Posted by GEN-ERIC at 01:13:07 am into the following categories: In The News

Ariel sues Reuters, which sues Bloomberg
11/22/05

A British software firm filed a patent infringement suit against the Reuters Group PLC news agency over its Instinet Group Inc. electronic brokerage. Ariel Communications says it retains rights over the original code used to build Instinet, Finextra.com reported Friday. A company official says Ariel invested $175,000 in Instinet and signed a deal with the electronic brokerage in 1975 giving it perpetual rights over all future developments of the Instinet software.

Posted by GEN-ERIC at 01:12:23 am into the following categories: In The News

Harrah's Patents Ruled Invalid
11/22/05

Station Casinos, Inc. today announced that on November 14, 2005, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the decision by the District Court of the District of Nevada granting the Company's motion for summary judgment on Harrah's claims that the Company had infringed upon Harrah's "National Customer Recognition System and Methods" patents, U.S. Patents Nos. 5,761,647 and 6,183,362 and related claims of U.S. Patent No. 6,003,013 entitled "Customer Worth Differentiation By Selective Activation Of Physical Instrumentalities Within The Casino". The patents allegedly related to Harrah's customer rewards and tracking program. In granting that motion, the District Court ruled that the Harrah's Patents are invalid as a matter of law due to indefiniteness and lack of adequate written description of the claimed subject matter.

Posted by GEN-ERIC at 01:11:12 am into the following categories: In The News

O2Micro Wins Patent Infringement Trial against MPS Based Products Manufactured by Taiwan Sumida
11/22/05

O2Micro(R) International Limited announced today that the jury in the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Texas returned a verdict favorable to O2Micro in its patent infringement action against Taiwan Sumida Electronics Inc. The jury found that Taiwan Sumida inverter modules incorporating inverter controllers manufactured by Monolithic Power Systems, Inc. ("MPS") infringed claims 1, 2, 9, 12 and 18 of U.S. Patent Number 6,396,722 held by O2Micro and that the infringement was willful.

Posted by GEN-ERIC at 01:07:39 am into the following categories: In The News
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