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The Phone Monitoring Patent of the Day goes to Walker Digital, LLC of Stamford for a Method and apparatus for monitoring telephone status
03/07/06

7,010,110 Method and apparatus for monitoring telephone status
  Issued: March 7, 2006
  Filed: March 5, 2002
  U.S. Class: 379/207.04
Abstract:  The monitor is for monitoring the status of a first client telephone, and for sending this status information via a central server to an authorized second client telephone. The central server stores a database of registered client telephones and corresponding client telephones that the client may monitor. A user of a registered client telephone monitors in real time the telephone status of registered friends, family, or co-workers that have agreed to be monitored by the user.

Posted by GEN-ERIC at 10:56:46 am into the following categories: Patents of the Day

The Music Related Patent of the Day goes to an Independent Inventor from Orlando for a Guitar strap
03/07/06

7,009,097 Guitar strap
  Issued: March 7, 2006
  Filed: May 6, 2004
  U.S. Class: 84/327
Abstract:  An apparatus securable about a waist of an operator and for supporting a guitar at select positions includes a belt and a pair of selectively engageable end portions extending substantially parallel thereto. The belt further has a central portion integral with the opposed end portions and is disposed substantially medially of an abdominal area of an operator. The apparatus further includes a plurality of adjustable support members secured to the central portion. The plurality of support members include a plurality of hook sections connected thereto for receiving select portions of a guitar to thereby allow a user to maintain a guitar at a substantially stable position during operating conditions while relieving pressure from a user's back and shoulders.

Posted by GEN-ERIC at 10:56:00 am into the following categories: Patents of the Day

The Smart Sign Patent of the Day goes to Lucent Technologies Inc. of New Jersey for Utilization by a vehicle of wireless data from intelligent street signs
03/07/06

7,010,397 Utilization by a vehicle of wireless data from intelligent street signs
  Issued: March 7, 2006
  Filed: May 25, 2005
  U.S. Class: 701/1
Abstract:  An exemplary vehicular apparatus includes a radio frequency receiver adapted for receipt of signals transmitted from intelligent street signs. A computer receives recovered digital data from the receiver, where the digital data represents information contained in the signals received by the receiver. The computer parses the digital data into separate fields and identifies a first field containing a first value that represents a predetermined type of vehicle for which the information contained in the other fields is relevant. The computer compares the first value with a stored value in memory to determine if the information contained in the other fields is relevant to the vehicle and recovers the information contained in the other fields if it is determined that the other fields are relevant to the vehicle.

Posted by GEN-ERIC at 10:55:14 am into the following categories: Patents of the Day

Reissue Applications Filed - 3/7/2006
03/07/06
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Requests for Ex Parte Reexamination Filed - 3/7/2006
03/07/06
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RIM settles BlackBerry patent suit for $612.5M
03/07/06

Research In Motion Inc. (RIM) will be allowed to keep its hugely popular BlackBerry service going south of the border after reaching a settlement in a long, bitter patent dispute. The Canadian company announced late Friday that it has agreed to pay NPT Inc., a U.S.-patent holding firm, $612.5 million US to settle the high-profile patent infringement case. In the court battle which lasted more than four years, the Virginia-based NTP had accused RIM of improperly using NTP patents in the BlackBerry portable e-mail device. "All terms of the agreement have been finalized and the litigation against RIM has been dismissed by a court order this afternoon," said RIM in a press release. "RIM has paid NTP $612.5 million in full and final settlement of all claims against RIM, as well as for a perpetual, fully-paid up license going forward."

Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:04:16 am into the following categories: In The News

Gateway Settles HP Patent Suits for $47 Mln
03/07/06

Computer maker Gateway has agreed to pay Hewlett-Packardtotal of $47 million to settle patent infringement claims, and arrange for the two companies to cross-license each other's patent portfolios for seven years. Gateway will pay $25 million within a week of the agreement being finalized, with the other $22 million to be paid one year later. According to Gateway, $16.7 million of the payment is to resolve patent dispute involving Gateway PCs manufactured from 1999 to the present. Gateway admits to no fault or wrongdoing.

Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:03:19 am into the following categories: In The News

Shire sues Teva for alleged patent infringement
03/07/06

Shire PLC said its Shire Laboratories Inc unit has filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd and Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc for alleged infringement of two of Shire's US patents. A statement from Shire said the lawsuit results from an Abbreviated New Drug Application filed by Teva for generic versions of Adderall XR, Shire's Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) medicine.

Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:02:17 am into the following categories: In The News

Patent Infringement Costs LendingTree Nearly $6 Million
03/07/06

IMX, Inc., a leading provider of technology solutions for the mortgage industry, announced that it has received a favorable jury verdict in its intellectual property case against LendingTree, LLC in the U.S. District Court of Delaware, finding willful infringement of U.S. Patent No. 5,995,947. The patent provides an Internet-accessible, interactive, real-time network whereby borrowers and lenders exchange information in the pursuit of securing a loan.

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