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05/30/06
7,053,292 Device comprising a sound signal generator and method for forming a call signal  05/30/06
7,054,829 Method and system for validating votes  05/30/06
7,054,833 Method and system for processing unclaimed property information  05/30/06
StreamCast Networks, the company behind the Peer to Peer (P2P) file sharing program Morpheus, has sued 22 firms including eBay over patent infringement of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology. StreamCast has sued Skype, now owned by eBay, for US$4 billion for using its network and infringing on its patent rights. The suit also seeks an injunction that prohibits eBay from selling Skype’s VoIP. Also, Sharman Networks, the founders of Kazaa, another file sharing network, have been indicted for providing the VOIP with Skype. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 02:59:39 am into the following categories: In The News05/30/06
Social networking company Reunion.com announced earlier this week it has filed a patent-infringement suit against online address-book maker Plaxo. Reunion.com is seeking damages and an injunction against Plaxo, which the company says is violating a patent Reunion.com acquired with the purchase of GoodContacts Research in 2004. GoodContacts developed a method for automatically updating and maintaining contact information within a database, and Reunion.com believes Plaxo's services infringe on that patent, officials say. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 02:59:15 am into the following categories: In The News05/30/06
Medtronic Inc. lost an appeals court bid yesterday to revive patent-infringement lawsuits against Guidant Corp. and Boston Scientific Corp. over devices that prop open heart arteries. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a judge's 2005 ruling that neither Guidant nor Boston Scientific infringes Medtronic patents for stents, tiny mesh tubes that prop open blood vessels to the heart after they have been cleared by angioplasty. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 02:57:35 am into the following categories: In The News05/30/06
Mosaid Technologies Inc., which has been aggressively defending its intellectual property in U.S. courts, saidd Friday it is in talks with Infineon Technologies AG to settle a Texas case. The Ottawa provider of semiconductor technology and memory test and analysis systems said the Texas court is granting a 30-day delay in the hearing that had been scheduled to begin Wednesday, “to allow the parties to focus on ongoing settlement discussions.” Mosaid alleges products from the German chipmaker use technology covered by Mosaid U.S. patents for dynamic random access memory (DRAM) circuits. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 02:56:41 am into the following categories: In The News05/23/06
7,050,853 Detection of patient mortality by an implantable medical device  05/23/06
7,050,987 System and method for coordinating travel itineraries  05/23/06
7,048,604 Levitating ball toy  05/23/06
Symantec on Thursday sued Microsoft for what it said was improper inclusion of its intellectual property in Windows Vista, and asked a federal court in Seattle to block distribution of Vista until Microsoft changes the software. Microsoft said the claim was without merit and that its actions are "proper and fully consistent" with a contract it signed with Veritas Software, which Symantec acquired last year. The dispute centers on software technology that allows an operating system to store and manipulate large amounts of data, and recreate files after a disk storage failure. Symantec claims that Microsoft violated terms of a 2004 contract under which Microsoft licensed this type of software from Veritas, by using it to develop competing products. Symantec said technology in Microsoft's upcoming Windows Vista operating system, due next year, misappropriates trade secrets found in its Volume Manager product, which it gained when it bought Veritas. Symantec went to court to stop Microsoft from developing or distributing Vista until Microsoft removes the intellectual property. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:14:43 am into the following categories: In The News05/23/06
Faced with a patent infringement suit against the iPod and iPod Nano, Apple Computer countered this week with its own complaint against Creative Labs, which holds a distant second place in the personal media player market. The suit was initiated in a Wisconsin federal court on May 15, the same day that the Singapore-based electronics maker said it had sued Apple in U.S. District Court in California, seeking an injunction against the iPod and damages. In its complaint, Apple accuses the company of infringing on four of its patents related to user interfaces and icon displays for digital media players. The company is requesting monetary damages and an injunction barring continued use of its patents. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:13:46 am into the following categories: In The News05/23/06
In a back and forth battle that somewhat resembles a sandbox war, Microsoft has decided to fire back against Lucent’s ongoing suit over patent infringement. At issue is the technology Microsoft is using in the Xbox 360 to decode MPEG-2 video files. Lucent says it owns the technology; Microsoft says it doesn’t. The latest round involves a counter suit in which Microsoft is denying the allegations and asserting that Lucent didn’t disclose “prior art” when it applied to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Prior art basically means acknowledging existing inventions in the area a patent is being asked for. The counter suit also claims that Lucent infringed on some Microsoft patents. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:12:39 am into the following categories: In The News05/16/06
7,046,151 Interactive body suit and interactive limb covers  05/16/06
7,045,186 RFID manufacturing concepts  05/16/06
7,047,204 Method for reducing fraud in government programs  05/16/06
The Supreme Court Monday set aside a patent injunction against online auctioneer eBay Inc., but also rejected a key argument made by the company that could have narrowed the rights of patent holders. The high court unanimously vacated an appeals court ruling in favor of MercExchange, a developer of e-commerce technology that sued eBay for patent infringement, saying an appeals court had failed to apply the proper legal test in deciding whether MercExchange should be granted an injunction barring eBay from using its technology. The justices said the appeals court went too far when it found there is a "general rule" that the owners of patents have the right to an injunction against infringers and sent the case back to the trial court for further proceedings. However, they also rejected a crucial argument advanced by eBay, and embraced by a U.S. District Court that handled the case, that companies can lose their right to an injunction if they have agreed to license out their technology or are not using it to make a product themselves. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 02:35:46 am into the following categories: In The News05/16/06
Creative alleges Apple' iPod and iPod nano music players violate Creative's "Zen" patent, and seeks an injunction barring Apple from importing, selling, or marketing iPods and iPod nanos. (They'd presumably name the iPod mini as well, but Apple doesn't make it anymore.) Creative claims to have implemented and demonstrated its music interface in January 2000 in its Nomad Jukebox portable music player, and filed for the patent in January 2001, well before the first iPods shipped in October of 2001. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 02:33:33 am into the following categories: In The News05/16/06
Speedus, a money-losing holding company that runs two fast-food restaurants and co-owns a medical technology company, said on Friday that it filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against No. 2 U.S. mobile carrier Verizon Wireless. Verizon Wireless spokeswoman Nancy Tarka declined comment, saying her company has not received a copy of the lawsuit. Verizon Wireless is owned by Verizon Communications and Vodafone Group. The suit involves a patent related to the transmission of television programs to wireless devices and a patent related to simultaneous transmission of analog and digital signals within the same bandwidth, Speedus said in a statement. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 02:31:26 am into the following categories: In The News05/16/06
Digital lighting maker Color Kinetics Inc. said Friday a court awarded the company an estimated $1.4 million in legal fees in its patent suit against Super Vision International Inc. Color Kinetics said that a Massachusetts District Court said "Super Vision has perpetrated a 'gross injustice' by its egregious abuses of the discovery phase and vexatious litigation strategy." The decision follows the court's 2005 ruling that five Super Vision product lines violated five Color Kinetics patents. Later Friday, Super Vision said it will appeal the decision in conjunction with its appeal of the 2005 ruling. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 02:30:26 am into the following categories: In The News05/09/06
7,040,236 Environmentally-friendly training hand grenade and manufacturing method of the same  05/09/06
7,043,433 Method and apparatus to determine and use audience affinity and aptitude  05/09/06
7,042,526 Worldwide television tuning system with country code based tuning  05/09/06
A federal jury Thursday announced a verdict favouring Ariad Pharmaceuticals in its patent infringement suit against Eli Lily & Co. A district court in Boston awarded Ariad Pharmaceuticals, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Harvard University and the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research compensation worth $65.2 million. Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Ariad Pharmaceuticals had accused Eli Lily of infringing its patent covering any medical treatment targeting the human body’s molecular pathway. Ariad Pharmaceuticals said Eli Lily’s osteoporosis drug, Evista, and septic shock drug, Xigris, interact with a naturally occurring protein, NF-KB, in the human body. Eli Lily had in turn argued that Ariad Pharmaceuticals’ patent was invalid, since it covered a naturally occurring phenomenon. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 02:41:47 am into the following categories: In The News05/09/06
Xerox Corp. filed suit this week against competitor Sharp Corp., accusing the Japanese company of infringing on patents related to its copiers, printers and multifunction machines. The 14-page lawsuit, filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Marshall, Texas, accuses Osaka, Japan-based Sharp and its U.S. subsidiary of infringing on nine patents. The suit doesn't name which specific products violate the patents, and Xerox spokeswoman Christa Carone would not detail which machines are involved. "This is a lawsuit that's about Xerox protecting our valuable intellectual property, something we take very seriously," Carone said. She declined additional comment. The patents cover areas including paper feeders, faxing functions, control devices and software for xerographic devices, the lawsuit said. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 02:40:42 am into the following categories: In The News05/09/06
Medical device maker Boston Scientific Corp. said Thursday it has filed suit against Conor Medsystems Ireland Ltd., alleging patent infringement. Boston Scientific said a Conor product infringes on a balloon catheter patent that it owns, and is asking for damages and for an injunction to prohibit Conor from making or stocking the product in Ireland. Conor officials couldn't immediately be reached for comment. Boston Scientific said it has successfully asserted a corollary patent against Johnson & Johnson in the Netherlands. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 02:39:40 am into the following categories: In The NewsCall For Action - USPTO calling for Elimination of the Disclosure Document Program
05/06/06
Subject: Call For Action - USPTO calling for Elimination of the Disclosure Document Program Comments Due: Monday May 8, 2006 Please forward this note to all persons interested in protection of their intellectual property rights. In particular please send to all intellectual property creators such as inventors, artists, musicians, writers, and the like. I humbly ask that you send comments to United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) voicing opposition to their call for elimination of the Disclosure Document Program (DDP). The DDP is used mostly by first time independent inventors who cannot afford a lawyer. This means that when everyday people like you or me solve the next problem and invent something, attempts toward protecting one's intellectual property rights as afforded by Article I Section VIII of the U.S. Constitution will become a greater burden to the independent inventor without the ability to use the DDP. A sample e-mail comment might read: To whom it may concern, DDP should never be eliminated for as long as United States remains a first-to-invent country. USPTO reasons for elimination are not well founded because actual benefit from DDP is subjective to measure and the benefits of filing a provisional cannot be compared as an alternative to the DDP, because the benefit of constructive reduction to practice is the same regardless of which type of patent application is filed. Eliminating the DDP places a greater burden upon an inventor to establish evidence of conception of an invention and may force the inventor to have to rely on disclosing the concept of the invention to a third party for corroboration. Inventor should have the right to use Government as witness through the DDP without relying upon a third party for corroboration. Regards, First-to-file system and first-to-invent system are legal concepts that define who has the right to the grant of a patent for an invention. The first-to-file system is used in all countries, except for the United States, which has operated a first-to-invent system for near 206 years. The Patent Reform Act of 2005 (Bill H.R. 2795) is U.S. patent legislation proposed in the Congress of the United States. Texas Republican Congressman Lamar S. Smith introduced the Act on 8 June 2005. Smith called the Act "the most comprehensive change to U.S. patent law since Congress passed the 1952 Patent Act." The Patent Reform Act would also change the United States patent system to a first-to-file system, from the current first-to-invent. The United States is currently the only country in the world still using the first-to-invent system. Request for Comments: 05/02/06
7,039,387 Systems, methods and computer program products for responding to AMBER alerts  05/02/06
7,039,610 Implied market trading system  05/02/06
7,039,171 Method and system for call tracking to discover inmate-employee fraternization  05/02/06
Finnish cell phone giant Nokia agreed to pay U.S.-based InterDigital Commmunications $253 million to quash a long-running patent dispute over 2G handsets. In exchange for Nokia's payment and agreement to end appeals before U.S. and UK courts of a 2005 ruling, InterDigital will grant Nokia a paid-up license for 2G TDMA equipment and infrastructure. InterDigital, which specializes in making wireless modems, will not enforce its three UK patents and will allow Nokia to continue to make and sell unlicensed 3G terminal units. While the pact absolves Nokia of patent infringement liability through April 26, future licensing by Nokia of InterDigital 3G technology is in doubt. A 1999 license agreement set to expire at the end of April will not be renewed. As a result, Nokia's sale of 3G products after the 26th will be unlicensed, according to the Prussia, Pa.-based InterDigital. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 02:50:18 am into the following categories: In The News05/02/06
As part of ongoing efforts to protect its intellectual property, DuPont today announced that it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against MacDermid, Inc. and MacDermid Printing Solutions, L.L.C. on U.S. patents relating to its DuPont Cyrel(R) FAST technology. The suit was filed in federal court in Denver, Colo. DuPont claims MacDermid has manufactured, used, offered for sale and sold flexographic plates, including products marketed under the names Magma and MLT, that are covered by a DuPont U.S. patent related to thermal flexographic technology. The suit also claims that MacDermid has actively induced others to infringe on another DuPont U.S. patent through offers to sell, advertise and promote thermal flexographic printing systems. DuPont is seeking monetary damages and demanding that MacDermid stop further acts of infringement associated with these products. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 02:48:45 am into the following categories: In The News05/02/06
Emboldened by a recent victory in a patent lawsuit, wireless e-mail software provider Visto Corp. said Monday it is suing Research in Motion Ltd., the maker of BlackBerry mobile devices, over similar claims. It's the latest twist in the tangle of legal battles over wireless e-mail, the most highly publicized of which ended in March with RIM agreeing to pay NTP Inc. $612.5 million to settle a four-year dispute. Visto, a privately held Redwood Shores-based company, provides e-mail software to cell-phone companies, including Sprint Nextel Corp. and Vodafone Group. It filed a lawsuit against RIM in federal court for the Eastern District of Texas on Friday, the same day a jury there handed it a legal victory in its patent infringement case against rival Seven Networks Inc. The jury found that Redwood City-based Seven had infringed on three of Visto's mobile e-mail patents and awarded Visto about $3.6 million in damages. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 02:47:03 am into the following categories: In The News05/02/06
International Game Technology has sued Bally Technologies Incorporated, claiming one of its rival's lines of gambling products infringes on IGT patents. In the lawsuit filed in Federal Court in Delaware, the Reno-based slot maker claims Bally products that offer system-driven bonuses for casino "slot club" gamblers infringe on at least nine IGT patents. Also named in the suit announced today by IGT were Bally subsidiaries Bally Gaming International and Bally Gaming. Officials for Las Vegas-based Bally declined to comment. At issue is "Bally power bonusing" technology used to reward loyal gamblers. Such systems award bonus points that can be redeemed differently at casinos. The suit seeks an unspecified amount of monetary damages, a preliminary and permanent injunction, and a finding of infringement. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 02:45:54 am into the following categories: In The News
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