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The Minus G Patent of the Day goes to an Independent Inventor from Laguna Beach for Negative gravity therapeutic methods
03/14/06

7,011,527 Negative gravity therapeutic methods
  Issued: March 14, 2006
  Filed: December 27, 2002
  U.S. Class: 434/262
Abstract:  A sleeping method for a participant having a foot end and a head end including 1)providing a sleeping surface having upper and lower ends, the sleeping surface inclined at least 10-25 degrees from the upper end to the lower end, 2)providing a predetermined unit of time having successive nightly sleep periods, and 3)the participant sleeping on the sleeping surface in a head down position for at least half or other portion of the successive nightly sleep periods, the head down position comprising the participant laying down on the sleeping surface with the legs and feet of the participant disposed toward the upper end of the sleeping surface and the head end of the participant disposed toward the lower end of the sleeping surface, in which the feet end of the participant is upward relative to the head end of the participant.

Posted by GEN-ERIC at 10:56:29 am into the following categories: Patents of the Day

The Genetic Algorithm Patent of the Day goes to Microsoft Corporation of Redmond for a System for delivering recommendations
03/14/06

7,013,238 System for delivering recommendations
  Issued: March 14, 2006
  Filed: July 15, 2003
  U.S. Class: 702/182
Abstract:  A system for generating recommendations which automatically optimizes over time without human intervention is disclosed. While known recommendation systems tended to be either attribute based or collaborative filtering based, the present system adjusts its internal parameters in response to the measured performance of the recommendations as determined by user behavior. In one embodiment, the user provides feedback in the form of ratings for the recommendations. This feedback is processed and then utilized to adjust the internal parameters of the system. Over time, the system settles on optimal parameter values.

Posted by GEN-ERIC at 10:55:59 am into the following categories: Patents of the Day

The Pay Now Patent of the Day goes to InPhonic, Inc. of Washington, DC for Systems and methods for employing "pay-as-you-go" telecommunication services
03/14/06

7,013,127 Systems and methods for employing "pay-as-you-go" telecommunication services
  Issued: March 14, 2006
  Filed: January 7, 2003
  U.S. Class: 455/406
Abstract:  Telecommunication services systems and methods are disclosed. The telecommunication services systems and methods preferably enable the user and/or the responsible party to make payments as the user uses the telecommunication services. The systems and methods may also be employed to provide the user and/or the responsible party with specialized pricing options and other customized services.

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Requests for Inter Partes Reexamination Filed - 3/14/2006
03/14/06
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Requests for Ex Parte Reexamination Filed - 3/14/2006
03/14/06
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Corning Inc. wins patent suit against SRU Biosystems
03/14/06

SRU Biosystems Inc. has lost a patent infringement lawsuit filed against it by Corning Inc. over an optical biomedical sensor. A federal judge in Delaware Thursday awarded a permanent injunction against Woburn, Mass.-based SRU Biosystems Inc., agreeing with the optical fiber maker's claims that SRU had violated its exclusive license to develop the technology from Artificial Sensing Instruments ASI AG of Switzerland. A permanent injunction requires an infringer to cease all activities involving the manufacture, use, sale or promoiton of the product in dispute.

Posted by GEN-ERIC at 02:53:56 am into the following categories: In The News

Sony loses round in DualShock patent case
03/14/06

Last week, Judge Claudia Wilken of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that Sony had not proven that patent holder Immersion attempted to conceal information in its dispute with Sony over vibrating game controllers. Sony is therefore not entitled, she ruled, to relief from a judgment that it violated Immersion's patents. In 2004, Sony lost a patent infringement case brought by Immersion, which licenses technology called "haptics" that allow game controllers and other devices to vibrate in response to events such as getting tackled during a game of "Madden NFL 2006."

Posted by GEN-ERIC at 02:52:45 am into the following categories: In The News

Allergan, Alcon Settle Patent Charges
03/14/06

Allergan Inc., known for Botox but also a maker of eye care products, and eye care company Alcon Inc. said Thursday that they agreed to settle two lawsuits over patent infringement charges. Both lawsuits were filed by Allergan. The first, filed in Delaware, involved patents covering Allergan's Alphagan glaucoma treatment. Allergan charged that Alcon violated patents by pursuing products that contained brimonidine, the active ingredient in Alphagan.

Posted by GEN-ERIC at 02:51:54 am into the following categories: In The News

Intermec Settles Battery-Patent Suit Against Hewlett-Packard
03/14/06

Intermec Inc., the company known as Unova Inc. until January, said it settled a lawsuit filed against Hewlett-Packard Co. over batteries used in notebook computers. The accord will add $14 million to $18 million to Intermec's operating profit after legal costs, the Everett, Washington-based company said today in regulatory filing. Terms are confidential. Intermec sued Hewlett-Packard in federal court in Los Angeles in 2002, five days after Hewlett-Packard bought Compaq Computer Corp. Hewlett-Packard claimed it was covered under a settlement Intermec had reached with Compaq. An appeals court said in 2004 the suit should proceed. Court documents list the suit as settled on Feb. 27, the day a judge ruled against Intermec on the expiration date of a patent in the case.

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