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01/31/06
6,993,555 Method and system for interactively responding to instant messaging requests  01/31/06
6,990,921 Self-waving flag  01/31/06
6,991,598 Miniature clothing attachable vibrator  01/31/06
Five lawsuits between Zoran Corporation and MediaTek Corp. were concluded today in an out-of-court settlement, after two years. MediaTek will pay Zoran $85 million, including $55 million in a one-time payment, and $30 million in royalties over the next 30 months. A string of lawsuits between the companies commenced in early 2004, when Zoran sued MediaTek for patent infringement on processors for optical storage systems in PCs, drives for DVD recorders and players, drives for CD recorders and players, and other devices. Mediatek earned approximately $500 million a year from the sale of these processors. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:13:30 am into the following categories: In The News01/31/06
California biotechnology firm Stratagene Corp. has posted a $21 million bond in federal court in Madison to cover $15.9 million in damages awarded in December to Third Wave Technologies Inc., Madison. The move sets aside the cash for the damages award and related attorneys' fees until Stratagene's planned appeal of the award is resolved, the firms said in separate statements Friday. In its statement, Third Wave said it expected the appeals process to take 18 months. Last month, Judge Barbara Crabb, of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin, awarded Third Wave $15.9 million in damages in the company's successful patent infringement lawsuit, tripling the damages awarded by a federal jury in September. She also ruled that Stratagene must pay Third Wave's attorney fees, an amount to be determined by the court. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:12:10 am into the following categories: In The News01/31/06
Microsoft is telling new corporate customers to update versions of its Office suite and Access software package following a 2005 patent infringement ruling that required Microsoft to remove the patented software from its products. Microsoft on Monday began notifying customers they are required to patch new corporate installations of Office Professional 2003 and Access 2003 to install Service Pack 2. Corporate customers with new installations of Office XP Professional and Access 2002 are required to install a special patch, Microsoft said. In June, a California court ordered Microsoft to pay Guatemalan inventor Carlos Armando Amado US$8.9 million for infringing his 1994 patent for software to help transfer data between Microsoft Excel spreadsheets and the Access database using a single spreadsheet. The California jury rejected nine of the 10 patent claims Amado filed in the lawsuit. The court required Microsoft to remove the patented software, a Microsoft spokesman said. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:11:05 am into the following categories: In The News01/31/06
Fortinet said on Monday that it has settled a long-running patent dispute with Trend Micro over antivirus software. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based vendor of security appliances said that both companies have agreed to urge the U.S. International Trade Commission to dismiss its consideration of the dispute, which centers on Trend Micro's U.S. Patent 5,623,600. In August, the ITC ordered Fortinet to stop selling its Fortigate products in the United States. At the time, Fortinet said it would work on revamping its products to avoid any infringement on Trend Micro's patent, and estimated it would do that within three months. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:09:38 am into the following categories: In The News01/24/06
6,988,299 Memorial container  01/24/06
6,990,590 Strategic internet persona assumption  01/24/06
6,990,189 Technique for providing information assistance while maintaining connection information anonymity  01/24/06
Heart valve maker Edwards Lifesciences Corp. said Monday Medtronic Inc. has agreed to pay Edwards and its partner $37.5 million to license patents to devices that treat abdominal aortic aneurysm, a dangerous ballooning of the body's main artery. Edwards said the agreement is part of a patent infringement settlement started in August 2003 by Edwards and Endogad Research Pty. Ltd., a company formed by the inventors of the patents. Under the terms of the agreement, Medtronic also has purchased delivery system assets, Edwards said. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:16:55 am into the following categories: In The News01/24/06
Millions of BlackBerry users can now turn their attention back to a Richmond, Va., federal court where the fate of the popular wireless e-mail device may be decided. After the Supreme Court chose on Monday not to intervene in the case, the resolution of the long-running battle over patents for the handheld device is up to U.S. District Judge James R. Spencer. Although the judge could impose an injunction and block BlackBerry use among many of its estimated 3 million owners in the United States, many analysts expect Research In Motion Ltd., the device's maker, to strike a deal with the patent-holder or introduce changes to work around the patents. Even if Spencer orders a partial shutdown, analysts said, he is likely to give users 30 days or more to switch to competing companies that provide wireless e-mail service. Lawyers for NTP Inc., a small northern Virginia firm that says it owns the patent on the technology that makes the BlackBerry work, have said government and emergency workers would be exempt from any BlackBerry blackout. Others who have come to rely on the device - such as lawyers, business travelers and brokers - might be out of luck. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:15:12 am into the following categories: In The News01/24/06
A federal judge in Delaware on Monday ruled that Business Objects Americas didn't violate software patents held by MicroStrategy Inc. U.S. District Judge Kent Jordan said Business Objects, a unit of Business Objects SA of France, didn't infringe one of three MicroStrategy patents at issue in a lawsuit. The patents at stake in the Delaware patent fight cover refinements on ``decision support system'' software which, for example, allow a user to keep working while sorting a database to generate a sales report. The judge declared two patents invalid because products that practice the supposedly-patented technology were in public use before patent applications were filed, he said. MicroStrategy, a business-software maker based in Vienna, Va., filed the suit in December 2003 against Crystal Decisions, a company Business Objects acquired the next day. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:12:55 am into the following categories: In The News01/24/06
DataTreasury Corporation, a small check-processing company, announced today that it has settled a patent-infringement lawsuit brought against NCR Corporation ("NCR"), a leading global technology company. This lawsuit was one of several high-profile suits DataTreasury filed in federal court against a number of banks and payment-processing companies, and the NCR agreement follows settlements with JPMorgan Chase, Bank One, Groupe Ingenico, NetDeposit, Inc., and RDM Corporation, companies that now license DataTreasury's patents. DataTreasury's pending infringement lawsuits include actions against Citibank, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Wachovia. DataTreasury has accused these companies of infringing U.S. Patent Nos. 5,910,988 and 6,032,137, which were issued to DataTreasury in 1999 and 2000 for image capture, centralized processing and electronic storage of document and check information. These patents describe a technology process capable of implementing the federally enacted Check Clearing for the 21st Century Act, known as "Check 21." As part of this settlement, DataTreasury and NCR are exchanging access to one another's intellectual property. DataTreasury now has unrestricted use of all NCR patents that pertain to DataTreasury's business model (a huge swath of NCR's 2,800-patent portfolio), and NCR has the freedom to operate in DataTreasury's field. DataTreasury plans to use NCR's patents to augment the company's existing payment-technology products and to help develop new ones. NCR has also agreed to pay DataTreasury an undisclosed sum of money. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:11:38 am into the following categories: In The News01/17/06
6,988,073 Method, system, and product for facilitating international travel with respect to immigration  01/17/06
6,987,442 Motor-kinetic identification apparatus and method  01/17/06
6,987,222 Determining similarity between artists and works of artists  01/17/06
Sun Microsystems' data-management group is seeking $109 million from competitor Quantum Corp. in a patent-infringement case set to go to trial next month in Denver. The companies are fighting over technology that Louisville-based Storage Technology Corp., which was acquired last year by Sun, and San Jose, Calif.-based Quantum developed separately in the 1990s. The technology makes the companies' data-storage systems more efficient by allowing information to be recorded on the back of storage tapes. A seven- to eight-day trial is scheduled to begin Feb. 27 before U.S. District Judge Richard Matsch. Sun said in a filing last month that there is "some possibility of settlement" in the case. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company said in that filing that Quantum owes it $109 million in royalties for infringing on its patents. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 03:40:06 am into the following categories: In The News01/17/06
A Delaware judge has lifted a stay in an ongoing lawsuit between Rambus and Micron Technologies, allowing Rambus to file new claims and to proceed in its patent infringement suit against the Boise, Idaho, memory chip maker. The two companies have been engaged in the dispute since 2000, but the case was stayed by the court in 2002 pending a related appeals court decision. Now, with the case proceeding, Rambus has filed new claims that cover Micron's newer DDR2 (double data rate, second generation) and GDDR (graphics double data rate) products, the company said in a statement. The case is being tried in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 03:39:01 am into the following categories: In The News01/17/06
Mystic Tan, Inc. announced on Jan. 11 a settlement in the patent infringement case filed in February 2005 against California Tan, Inc. and New Tan, Inc. The settlement included Mystic Tan granting California Tan and New Tan a license to make, sell and use their AutoBronzer Spray Tanning Towers in the United States for an undisclosed fee. The case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas for infringement of U.S. Patent No. 6,387,081, a patent covering MagneTan technology developed and owned by Mystic Tan. Both Mystic Tan and California Tan released statements announcing they are pleased with the outcome of the settlement. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 03:36:56 am into the following categories: In The News01/17/06
Primex Wireless, Inc., the world leader in GPS wireless synchronized clock, timing and control systems, today announced it continues to aggressively litigate a patent infringement lawsuit against Visiplex Technologies, Inc., which is pending in Federal District Court in Wisconsin. The lawsuit, originally filed in August 2005, alleges infringement of Primex Wireless' United States patent (#6,873,573) pertaining to wireless GPS-based synchronized timing systems. Primex Wireless is seeking damages for the infringement and a permanent injunction barring further manufacture, sale and use of the accused products. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 03:32:33 am into the following categories: In The News01/10/06
6,986,049 Method and system for authenticating a message sender using domain keys  01/10/06
6,986,033 System for automated boot from disk image  01/10/06
6,985,572 Decoding and processing system for advanced determination and display of city and state caller information  01/10/06
A federal jury in Miami this week ordered a California biotech to pay $30-million in punitive damages to the owners of a struggling drug company in Pinellas Park, raising damages in the patent infringement case to $78-million. Arriva Pharmaceuticals Corp. of Alameda, Calif., and Spinelli Corp., an Arizona private investigation firm it hired, were found guilty last month of unfair competition, stealing trade secrets and interfering with the business of AlphaMed Pharmaceutical Corp. owned by John Lezdey and his sons, Darren and Jarett. At the end of the three-month trial in December, the jury ordered Arriva to pay the Lezdeys $48-million in compensatory damages. With the addition of Wednesday's punitive damages, the case represents one of the 100 highest nonpersonal injury awards in recent history, according to VerdictSearch in New York. A lawyer for Arriva declined to comment, saying several motions are pending in the case. Jarett Lezdey said the jury's decision was a "blow against corrupt corporate America everywhere." "They were spending millions to bury my family and we wouldn't stop," said Lezdey, 39. He said his family simply wants to pursue commercialization of the protein alpha 1-Antitrypsin, or AAT, that John Lezdey patented with a partner in the mid 1980s. The partner later licensed the patent to Arriva without the senior Lezdey's approval, leading to the long-running legal dispute. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:07:38 am into the following categories: In The News01/10/06
Apple this week asked a federal court to invalidate claims by Burst.com that it is infringing on patents owned by the company. At issue are certain technologies within Apple's iPod player and iTunes software that Burst says are not properly licensed. Burst attempted to settle with Apple two years ago, when Burst lawyers first informed the Cupertino company that it was illegally infringing on patents. Apple attempted to negotiate a deal, but talks broke down. The first threats of legal action came late last year, when Burst wrote to Apple saying it intended to sue. Apple in turn filed a declaratory relief complaint. Burst says it intends to file a countersuit accusing Apple of patent infringement. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:04:57 am into the following categories: In The News01/10/06
USAmerican LLC of Beverly Hills announced today that it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Oakley, Inc. and Motorola, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California alleging that the popular "Razrwire" sunglasses and headset combination jointly marketed by Oakley and Motorola infringes U.S. Patent No. 4,902,120 ("the '120 patent"). The lawsuit, Civil Action No. CV06-0010 CAS (SSx) was filed in Los Angeles on January 3, 2006. The '120 patent was filed in November 1988 by Frank Weyer, an attorney and engineer, who was annoyed by his earphones falling out while jogging. While jogging past the UN building in New York City, Mr. Weyer came up with the idea of attaching earphones to his sunglasses, thereby keeping them comfortably in place. After the '120 patent issued in February 1990, Mr. Weyer formed a company, American Innovative Products, Inc., to market his invention. Advertising in running magazines and at running events, Mr. Weyer sold several thousand pairs of his sunglasses/earphone product, which were called "Cruisers (TM)." Mr. Weyer also licensed his invention to Virtual I/O, who used the patented earphone mounting system in a virtual reality goggle product called "Iglasses." In 1994, Oakley unsuccessfully sued Mr. Weyer's company for patent infringement, alleging that the sunglasses American Innovative Products was using infringed on several Oakley patents. Mr. Weyer, who is a patent attorney, countersued, pointing out that if what Oakley alleged was true, Oakley's patents were invalid. Oakley quickly dropped the case. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:03:00 am into the following categories: In The News01/10/06
The litigation between BioCell Technology LLC and Cyvex Nutrition, Inc. has been resolved. BioCell Technology LLC is the sole provider of Hydrolyzed Collagen Type II under its intellectual property rights. Patented and branded BioCell Collagen II(R) is a naturally occurring matrix of Hydrolyzed Collagen Type II, Hyaluronic Acid, and Chondroitin Sulfate. BioCell Collagen II(R) can be found in dozens of dietary supplements, cosmetics, and complex health formulas that target skin and joint health. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:01:07 am into the following categories: In The News01/03/06
6,981,701 Fluid-filled game device  01/03/06
6,983,255 Television commerce payments  01/03/06
6,982,635 Technique for assisting a vehicle user to make a turn  01/03/06
Rates Technology, a little-known patent-holding company with a history of filing suits against large technology companies, said it will seek $5 billion in damages from Google based on unpaid royalties from a patent infringement lawsuit RTI filed against Google in New York. RTI is suing Google in U.S. District Court in New York’s Eastern District for infringement of patent 5,425,085, which governs the routing of VoIP calls in Google Talk, a VoIP and instant-messaging application. RTI, based in Smithtown, New York, is also suing Google based on another patent, 5,519,769, which relates to inventions for minimizing the cost of telephone calls. The company is seeking an injunction against Google for all commercial activity pertaining to Google Talk. "We believe the lawsuit is without merit and we will defend against it vigorously,” said Google spokesman Steve Langdon. In the past two years several companies, including network equipment suppliers, software developers, and application services companies, have added VoIP capabilities. So basic is RTI’s VoIP-routing patent that hundreds of companies could be subject to legal action from RTI. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 03:17:54 am into the following categories: In The News01/03/06
BlackBerry e-mail service provider Research In Motion Ltd. said on Friday the U.S. patent office has ruled against two more NTP Inc. patents in their fight over the popular service. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued "non-final actions" rejecting claims for two NTP patents involved in the dispute with RIM, which has faced a shutdown of its service in the United States, RIM said. "The Patent Office's latest rulings corroborate RIM's long-standing contention that the NTP patents are invalid and the rulings also demonstrate that the Patent Office is acting with special dispatch to address the court's concern and the public interest, Mark Guibert, RIM's vice president of corporate marketing, said in a statement. Closely held NTP, a patent holding company, successfully sued RIM for patent infringement in 2002. It later won an injunction, stayed pending appeal, to halt sales of RIM's BlackBerry device and service in the United States. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 03:16:29 am into the following categories: In The News01/03/06
Padcom, Inc., a leading wireless mobile VPN provider, filed a declaratory judgment action today against competitor, NetMotion Wireless, Inc., of Seattle. Padcom’s suit alleges a recently issued patent assigned to NetMotion is invalid, unenforceable and not infringed. The suit was filed in United States District Court for the District of Delaware, where another action is pending between the two companies in which Padcom alleges NetMotion infringes three of its patents: U.S. Patent Nos. 6,418,324, 6,198,920 and 6,826,405 (Civil Action No. 03-983). The technology of these patents relates to Padcom’s TotalRoam® software solutions, including TotalRoam® Mobile Virtual Network (MVN), which enable roaming across multiple active dissimilar networks. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 03:15:10 am into the following categories: In The News01/03/06
General Patent Corporation International ( GPCI ) announced an important victory in its patent enforcement campaign on behalf of Advanced Card Technologies LLC ( ACT ). The reexamination of two of ACT’s patents by the United States Patent and Trademark Office ( USPTO ) resulted in an affirmation of validity of these two patents with approximately two hundred new claims being issued. The reexamination proceedings at the Patent Office were initiated in response to a patent infringement law suit brought by the prior owner of ACT’s patents, a pioneer in card technology, SSI Technologies. Reexamination was requested for ACT’s U.S. Patent Nos. 5,720,158 ( “Information Card Package” ) and 5,921,584 ( “Card Display Package” ). The patents generally relate to packages for cards that have a magnetic stripe, such as gift, phone, and other types of cards. During the reexaminations, the new claims were found to be patentable over numerous patents and publications which were brought to the attention of the Patent Office. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 03:12:39 am into the following categories: In The News
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