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02/28/06
7,006,989 Coordinating delivery of a gift  02/28/06
7,007,008 Category searching  02/28/06
7,006,001 Speech-emitting celebration device  02/28/06
Telecoms hardware maker Ericsson has filed suit against Samsung Electronics, alleging patent infringement. "We have filed a lawsuit against Samsung for patent infringement in the US, UK, Germany and the Netherlands," Ericsson spokeswoman Ase Lindskog said Friday. "The reason is that we have had extensive negotiations with Samsung over a renewal of licences because their agreement with us expired on 31 December last year," she added. "They are using mobile phone patents which no longer have licences." Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:20:55 am into the following categories: In The News02/28/06
Monsanto Co. will pay the University of California more than $100 million to settle the school's claim that the biotechnology company infringed on its patent related to a hormone that makes cows produce more milk. The university's Board of Regents and Monsanto made the announcement Monday as the bovine growth hormone case was scheduled to go to trial. The suit was filed in 2004. St. Louis-based Monsanto agreed to pay the school $100 million in upfront royalties and would pay 15 cents a dose, or at least $5 million annually, to license the patented technology, commonly called BST, in the future. The university's patent rights expire in 2023. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:17:12 am into the following categories: In The News02/28/06
Patriot Scientific Corp. said it has received a total of $24 million as a result of processor licensing agreements with Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Hewlett-Packard. The company added that Casio Computer joined HP as the second system manufacturer to purchase a license to use intellectual property protected by the Moore Microprocessor Patent (MMP) portfolio. The MMP portfolio is owned jointly by Patriot (San Diego) and the TPL Group (Sunnyvale, Calif.) Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:14:03 am into the following categories: In The News02/21/06
7,003,573 Delayed uploading of user registration data  02/21/06
7,003,462 Voice filter for normalizing an agent's emotional response  02/21/06
7,001,877 Organic laundry detergent and method of producing the same 02/21/06
Nike Inc. filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Adidas-Salomon AG on Thursday, claiming its archrival makes shoes using elements of Nike's SHOX cushioning technology. Beaverton-based Nike alleges the new Kevin Garnett signature shoe by Adidas and its A3 shoes are among the footwear that violate the Nike patent. "Despite Nike's patent protection, Adidas has built shoes that use Nike's technology," Nike spokesman Vada Manager said. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:09:28 am into the following categories: In The News02/21/06
Agilent Technologies Inc., the world's biggest maker of scientific testing equipment, will receive roughly $6 million from Waters Corp. in a U.K. patent-infringement lawsuit settlement, Waters said. A London court found that Waters, based in Milford, Mass., infringed an Agilent patent for pump technology in Waters' Alliance high-performance liquid chromatography instruments, according to a Waters statement Friday reported by Bloomberg News. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:07:58 am into the following categories: In The News02/21/06
The German company, Teles says that it is sueing Nokia for patent infringements over its latest VoIP mobile phone. The company says that the Nokia 6136 infringes, by means of its "GSM fallback" functionality, Teles' German und European VoIP patents. Concerning its German and European VoIP patents, Teles says that it intends to launch short term further patent infringement cases against internationally well-known providers of VoIP products with "lineswitching fallback" functionality for fixed and/or mobile networks: Namely, all these advanced VoIP products consider the packetswitching Internet as the primary telecommunications network and hand a call over to a lineswitching network only occasionally (e.g. if the quality of the Internet communications is/becomes poor) - which violates the Teles VoIP patents from the year 1996. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:07:03 am into the following categories: In The News02/21/06
Amazon.com Inc. announced it has been named in a patent infringement lawsuit, along with Target Corp. In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing Friday, officials at the Seattle online retailer said Registrar Systems filed a complaint against Amazon and Minneapolis-based Target Corp. in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado in December. The complaint accuses Amazon of using technology on its own Web site and for third parties such as Target.com that infringes on two Registrar Systems patents, Amazon said. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:06:18 am into the following categories: In The News02/14/06
7,000,116 Password value based on geographic location  02/14/06
7,000,028 Automated domain name registration  02/14/06
6,998,526 Capo device for stringed musical instrument  02/14/06
AT&T holds several video compression related patents which the company claims are an essential component of the MPEG-4 video technology, and the company has accused Apple Computer, Inc., CyberLink Corp., DivX, Inc., InterVideo, Inc., and Sonic Solutions of infringement. All these companies offer products that utilize MPEG-4 technology. AT&T has also written to national retailers and warned them that they may be held liable for infringement while selling certain products from these companies. "Each of these companies has been advised that they are offering infringing products, that AT&T can provide proof of infringement, and that AT&T is offering a license under reasonable on non-discriminatory terms," Michael J. Robinson, licensing director of AT&T Intellectual Property Management, wrote in a letter sent in December 2005. The strongly worded letter made sure to inform the retailers of the possible damages could face. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 08:41:21 am into the following categories: In The News02/14/06
The most popular, most tour-validated and most revolutionary ball in the history of golf is now the principal exhibit in a lawsuit involving golf's two largest companies. On Thursday, Callaway Golf filed a complaint in U.S. District Court in Delaware against Acushnet, alleging that Acushnet's Titleist Pro V1 line of golf balls infringes on four or more golf ball patents owned by Callaway. The lawsuit, says Callaway spokesman Larry Dorman, was filed "only after repeated attempts to negotiate a settlement failed." He would not specify how long the companies were negotiating, other than to say "quite a while." According to multiple sources familiar with the situation, the two companies had been involved in discussions over golf-ball intellectual property since at least last summer. "We are reviewing the lawsuit and have no comment on it at this time," said Joe Gomes, Titleist spokesman. The intellectual property in question, referred to in the complaint as "the Sullivan patents," focuses primarily on the construction of a multilayer ball with a solid core and a polyurethane cover. The patents were acquired by Callaway in 2003 when it purchased Top-Flite Golf from bankruptcy. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 08:39:33 am into the following categories: In The News02/14/06
Add the remote access PC business to the latest market to erupt over a patent infringement riff. Last week, 01 Communique Laboratory filed suit against Citrix Systems, makers of the popular GoToMyPC software. The software allows users to logon from a remote site and access their home or office computers. The Canadian-based 01 Communique also makes a remote access solution known as I'm InTouch and claims Citrix infringes on a patent issued to 01 Communique in 2005. "After we received our patent, we started looking around at other products similar to ours," Brian Stringer, the chief financial officer of 01 Communique, told internetnews.com. "We decided they [Citrix] were infringing on certain aspects of our patent." According to the suit filed in a U.S. District Court in Ohio, 01 Communique seeks unspecified damages and an injunction to bar Citrix from marketing and selling GoToMyPC. The patent in dispute relates to systems for providing remote access to a personal computer on the Internet from a remote personal computer. The actual patent is entitled, "System Computer Product and Method for Providing a Private Communication Portal." Posted by GEN-ERIC at 08:38:02 am into the following categories: In The News02/14/06
For the second time in eight months, King Controls, a leading manufacturer of mobile satellite antenna systems for land and marine markets, has filed a patent suit against KVH Industries, Inc. In the lawsuit, recently filed in Minnesota Federal District Court, King Controls alleges that KVH Industries has infringed on a King Controls patent (U.S. Patent No. 6,864,846) directed to methods and devices for automatically locating and tracking satellites for receiving direct broadcast satellite transmissions. King Controls will ask the court at a March 21 hearing to issue a preliminary injunction that would stop KVH from further use, sales or marketing of the infringing TracVision(R) R4 and R5 satellite systems. The preliminary injunction would be in effect throughout the litigation. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 08:35:46 am into the following categories: In The News02/07/06
6,996,839 Authorized user system using biological signature  02/07/06
6,996,532 Method and apparatus for accessing a content site with a sound sequence  02/07/06
6,996,364 Book or CD used as electronic key  02/07/06
Dr. Milton Harris, a former UAH professor who turned his chemistry inventions into a successful biotechnology business, is being sued by the University of Alabama System trustees on claims that $197 million worth of his patents are their property. Harris and Nektar Therapeutics, the company that last weekend announced federal approval for a new inhalable insulin system it developed, are named in the federal lawsuit filed last summer. The insulin inhaler is not part of the suit. Attorneys for Harris and Nektar said that the claims are without merit, that Harris has acted with the highest integrity and that he vigorously denies the allegations. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 02:36:31 am into the following categories: In The News02/07/06
Medisys said Hypoguard USA, Inc., the operator of its U.S. blood glucose monitoring business, and other parties, had settled a patent case brought by Roche in 2004. "Apex Biotechnology Corporation, Hypoguard USA, Incorporated, Medline Industries, Inc. and Roche Diagnostics Corp. have agreed to a settlement favorable to all parties for the patent infringement lawsuit pending in the United States District Court Southern District of Indiana on January 31, 2006," Medisys said in a statement. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 02:34:58 am into the following categories: In The News02/07/06
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP announced today that firm client Nikko Materials USA, Inc. was awarded more than $4.3 million in damages, attorneys fees, and other costs in its patent infringement case against R.E. Service Co., Inc. (RES). The award was granted on January 17, 2006, following a two-week trial in early 2005 in which a Northern California jury unanimously found that RES had willfully infringed Nikko's patents. "This is a great Nikko success story," said Robert M. Isackson, an intellectual property partner at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP in New York, who was Nikko's lead outside counsel on the case. "This case demonstrates that Nikko values its intellectual property investments and has the courage to protect that technology and its business." Posted by GEN-ERIC at 02:33:17 am into the following categories: In The News02/07/06
NetRatings, Inc. a global leader in Internet media and market research, today announced that it has filed a lawsuit against WebSideStory, Inc. alleging infringement of several patents owned or controlled by NetRatings. William Pulver, president and CEO, NetRatings, commented, "Our patented technologies are at the core of NetRatings' high quality, innovative product portfolio. As we see growing demand from Internet advertisers and marketers for products and services that rely on these technologies, we intend to aggressively pursue and expand our patent enforcement program." NetRatings' patent portfolio includes United States Patent Nos. 5,675,510; 5,796,952; 6,108,637; 6,115,680; 6,138,155; 6,643,696 and 6,763,386, and relates generally to the collection, analysis and reporting of information concerning computer usage activity. The lawsuit, filed in New York Federal court, asserts infringement of five of these patents. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 02:31:09 am into the following categories: In The News
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