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The Political Checkmate Patent of the Day goes to an Independent Inventor from Kentucky for a Political chess game
06/20/06

7,063,323 Political chess game
  Issued: June 20, 2006
  Filed: September 29, 2004
  U.S. Class: 273/60
Abstract:  A political chess game includes a game board and two sets of game pieces, each set including a standard set of game pieces from a standard chess game and an auxiliary set of political game pieces. Each of the standard game pieces operate according to rules governing play of a standard chess game. The auxiliary set includes Orientals, Camels, Donkeys, and Elephants. Each of the auxiliary game pieces operate according to rules governing play for Kings and the Queens. The game board defines sixteen parallel and adjacent rows of the squares. Each row is colored by one of a first color, a second color, a third color, a fourth color and a fifth color with the colors defining an alternate cultural group.

Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:00:29 pm into the following categories: Patents of the Day

The Where am I Patent of the Day goes to America Online, Inc. of Dulles for Presenting driving directions
06/20/06

7,065,448 Presenting driving directions
  Issued: June 20, 2006
  Filed: October 1, 2003
  U.S. Class: 701/211
Abstract:  Techniques are provided for reducing the number of maneuvers presented in narrative driving directions for a route from an origin location to a destination location. Maneuvers are combined to reduce the number of maneuvers presented. Maneuvers may be combined based on a maneuver being associated with a highway interchange or maneuvers including a shared reference to a particular road.

Posted by GEN-ERIC at 11:47:52 am into the following categories: Patents of the Day

The Cell Phone Net Surfing Patent of the Day goes to Telia AB of Sweden for a Communication system including means for transmitting internet addresses via SMS
06/20/06

7,065,199 Communication system including means for transmitting internet addresses via SMS
  Issued: June 20, 2006
  Filed: July 8, 1998
  U.S. Class: 379/211.02
Abstract:  A communication system, adapted to establish connections to, and between, Internet users, including a cellular radio communication network adapted to provide a short message service (SMS), and a server adapted to facilitate the establishment of a telephony/Internet connection between a mobile subscriber station of said network and an Internet user. SMS is used to transfer, from the mobile subscriber station to the server, information identifying the Internet address for the Internet user and, from the server to the mobile subscriber station, information relating to the required connection between the mobile subscriber station and the Internet user.

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06/20/06
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06/20/06
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Verizon sues Vonage with claim of patent infringement
06/20/06

Verizon Communications has filed a lawsuit claiming that Internet phone carrier Vonage violated patent rights that Verizon has on technology for making phone calls via the Internet. The suit was filed in U.S. District Court in Richmond, Va., on behalf of subsidiaries Verizon Services, of Arlington, Va., and Verizon Laboratories, of Waltham, Mass. Holmdel-based Vonage contested the claim. ``Vonage believes that its services have been developed with its own proprietary technology and technology licensed from third parties and intends to vigorously defend the lawsuit,'' the company said in a statement. Vonage spokesman Mitchell Slepian declined to comment further.

Posted by GEN-ERIC at 01:06:47 am into the following categories: In The News

Comtech Telecommunications Unit Sues Radyne For Patent Infringement
06/20/06

Communications solutions developer Comtech Telecommunications Corp. said on Monday that its Tempe, Arizona-based subsidiary, Comtech EF Data Corp., has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Radyne Corp., seeking an injunction preventing Raydne from further misappropriating Comtech EF Data Corp.'s technology. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, is for willfully infringing Comtech EF Data Corp.'s U.S. Patent entitled "Radio Frequency Converter System with Distributed Protection Switching and Method Therefor" by selling and offering for sale certain of its frequency converter products. Melville, New York-based Comtech Telecommunications said the patent covers a valuable RF converting system using "daisy chain" switching and eliminating the use of a centralized switching unit.

Posted by GEN-ERIC at 01:05:33 am into the following categories: In The News

Telephia Files Patent Infringement Suit against M:Metrics for Mobile Device Metering Technology
06/20/06

Telephia, Inc, the leading provider of performance measurement information to the mobile industry, has filed a lawsuit against M:Metrics with the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California for violating its intellectual property rights. The complaint asserts that M:Metrics has engaged in acts of patent infringement in connection with the development and distribution of smartphone metering software (distributed via www.mobilepanel.com). The complaint is based upon multiple patents awarded to Telephia in the area of metering mobile devices, including: United States Patent #6,745,011 and United States Patent #6,754,470. Telephia is seeking permanent injunction against M:Metrics infringement on the company's patent rights. "We believe that M:Metrics has violated Telephia's intellectual property rights through the unauthorized development of their smartphone metering panel," said Sid Gorham, President and CEO, Telephia. "It's regrettable that we need to resort to legal action, but we have been unable to obtain their cooperation through other means. We plan to vigorously protect and defend our intellectual property in this area."

Posted by GEN-ERIC at 01:02:07 am into the following categories: In The News

Charter, Cox named in VOD patent suit
06/20/06

Charter Communications Inc. and Cox Communications Inc. were among those named in a patent lawsuit filed by USA Video Technology Corp. this week in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. USA Video Technology alleges in the suit, filed Tuesday, that seven companies -- including Charter and Cox -- infringed on its video-on-demand (VOD) patent. The other companies named were Time Warner Inc.; Comcast Cable Communications L.L.C.; Comcast of Richardson L.P.; Comcast of Plano L.P.; and Comcast of Dallas L.P. The companies cited in the lawsuit operate digital cable systems in which they provide allegedly infringing VOD services to their subscribers, USA Video Technology said in a release.

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