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11/28/06
7,142,656 Location-based ringbacks  11/28/06
7,140,535 Method and system to validate periodically the visa of a foreign visitor during the visitor's in-country stay  11/28/06
7,142,646 Voice mail integration with instant messenger  11/28/06
Some of the largest companies in the United States are facing off in a Supreme Court case over gas pedals, with one side hoping the justices will put the brakes on an out-of-control patent system. The court is scheduled to hear arguments Tuesday on what's obvious when older inventions are combined to create something new. The law says an invention that's "obvious" isn't patentable, but the definition isn't clear despite decades of litigation. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:16:03 am into the following categories: In The News11/28/06
Microsoft will possibly be paying damages amounting to $75 million for patent infringement in Korea. In a Supreme Court ruling last week, judges denied Microsoft's request to invalidate patents obtained by Professor Lee Keung-Hae of the Hankuk Aviation University in 1997. Representing Lee Keung-Hae, P&IB is suing Microsoft for using in its Office suite the patented program in question that enables automatic translation between English and Korean. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:14:49 am into the following categories: In The News11/28/06
Samsung Electronics has won a U.S. patent suit against Taiwanese PC maker Compal. A jury for the Californian Federal Court found on Nov. 17 that the Taiwanese PC manufacturer violated a notebook computer patent of Samsung Electronics and ordered Compal to pay US$9 million, part of sales earned between April 1999 and March 2002 in damages. Samsung Electronics sued Compal in 2000 for violating patented technologies like adjusting screen brightness by pressing a key while pushing the function key. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:13:32 am into the following categories: In The News11/28/06
Signs point to dispute over Xbox 360 video technologies. French telecommunications company Alcatel has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft for patent infringement. Seven patents are at issue in the complaint. This legal quibble may also stem from a Lucent and Microsoft patent war that started in 2003, and was recently revitalized over Xbox 360 video encoding, which Microsoft eventually won. Alcatel acquired Lucent earlier this year, absorbing its entire patent portfolio with it. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:12:13 am into the following categories: In The News11/21/06
7,137,881 Protective bed unit  11/21/06
7,139,842 Method and apparatus for intersystem cut/copy and paste  11/21/06
7,139,390 Promoting use of experts to callers waiting in a hold queue  11/21/06
AMD is being sued for patent infringement by holding company Opti. Opti is one of a new breed of companies that exists only to enforce their patents and intellectual property through licensing deals and the courts. It also has prior form, having sued Nvidia in 2004 in a similar lawsuit and settled out of court earlier this year. Opti claims that AMD has infringed three of its patents for a technology known as "Predictive Snooping of Cache Memory for Master-Initiated Accesses". The complaint alleges that AMD has infringed the patents by making and selling CPUs and core logic products using Opti's predictive snooping technology. The three patents at issue in the lawsuit are US patent no. 5,710,906, 5,813,036 and 6,405,291 - the same three it alleged Nvidia has infringed. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:09:30 am into the following categories: In The News11/21/06
A federal judge in Tyler, Texas, ruled last week that an Australian government agency holds the rights to patents on the underlying technology used in two Wi-Fi standards and a third proposed standard. The decision--if it survives what many assume will be a lengthy appeals process--could have a wide-ranging impact on wireless equipment makers and consumer electronics manufacturers. Stan Schatt, vice president at ABI Research Judge Leonard Davis ruled that a patent granted in 1996 to the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia's national science agency, is valid. The patent describes the implementation of several aspects of the 802.11a and 802.11g wireless standards developed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The court also ruled that Buffalo Technology, a small maker of Wi-Fi routing gear, had violated this patent. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:08:36 am into the following categories: In The News11/21/06
Sonic Solutions, a digital media software maker, said Thursday it filed a lawsuit against German software manufacturer Nero AG and its U.S. affiliate, Nero Inc. for patent infringement. The claim was filed in the U.S. District Court in Mashall, Texas, and it alleges a video editing application made by Nero infringes upon one of Sonic's patents. A spokeswoman from Nero declined to comment. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:07:20 am into the following categories: In The News11/14/06
7,135,980 Physiomagnetometric inspection and surveillance system and method  11/14/06
7,136,854 Methods and apparatus for providing search results in response to an ambiguous search query  11/14/06
7,135,638 Dynamic magnetic pickup for stringed instruments  11/14/06
Symantec Corp. said Wednesday it was granted summary judgment in U.S. District Court for Delaware against all patent infringement claims by SRI International Inc. Cupertino-based Symantec said the ruling resolves the dispute prior to trial. The court held that Menlo Park-based SRI's patents were invalid based on prior printed publications authored by SRI employees more than one year before the earliest patent application was filed. Symantec said that in related proceedings, the United States Patent and Trademark Office said it will independently re-examine the patentability of the some SRI patents based on several different prior art publications. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:05:42 am into the following categories: In The News11/14/06
Boston Scientific Corp. settled a patent-infringement suit by paying a Florida inventor $100,000 to drop his claims, according to regulatory and court filings. Dr. Shaun Samuels sued the company in 2005, claiming that a device he designed to repair the aorta, the body's largest artery, had been unlawfully stolen by a company later acquired by Boston Scientific. The Natick device maker denied the claims. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:04:35 am into the following categories: In The News11/14/06
Cybersettle, Inc., the world leader in accelerated dispute resolution, whose President is the co-inventor of Cybersettle's automated, online, double-blind bid system, today announced it has won a major patent infringement case it filed against National Arbitration Forum (NAF), a Minnesota-based company that had been hired to administer New Jersey's No Fault Automobile Insurance Personal Injury protection. The New Jersey Federal District Court ruled that two versions of NAF's online dispute resolution system in New Jersey were in direct violation of Cybersettle's patent, U.S. Patent No. 6,330,551 that covers, among other things, an automated, online, double blind, dispute resolution system capable of multiple rounds of bidding. The decision, which re-affirms the patent and its coverage of such systems, should serve as a powerful deterrent to other would-be on-line dispute resolution system infringers. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:03:49 am into the following categories: In The News11/14/06
Stored Value Solutions Inc., a Louisville-based subsidiary of Comdata Corp., has won a patent infringement case brought against the company by Barry Fiala Inc. Memphis-based Barry Fiala, a maker of paper products, sued Stored Value for infringing on its patented method of activating gift cards. A 10-member jury in the U.S. Western District of Tennessee on Nov. 3 sided with Stored Value. Among its findings, the jury decided the patent is unenforceable. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:02:22 am into the following categories: In The News11/07/06
7,132,635 Methods and apparatus for camouflaging objects  11/07/06
7,133,863 Method and apparatus to search for information  11/07/06
7,133,504 Non-voice completion of voice calls  11/07/06
A company that generates most of its revenue from patent licensing and litigation has reached an $8 million settlement with some of the technology industry's biggest players over the use of a patent covering the ubiquitous JPEG digital image format. U.S. Patent No. 4,698,672 had been a mainstay for Austin, Texas-based Forgent Networks Inc., bringing in more than $110 million in settlements and licensing fees over the past three years. But Wednesday, Forgent said it had reached a deal with several technology companies -- among them Dell Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. -- in U.S. District Court in San Francisco. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:18:36 am into the following categories: In The News11/07/06
NTP Inc., which successfully sued the maker of BlackBerry devices for infringement of wireless e-mail patents, said Monday it is suing Palm Inc., maker of the Treo smart phone. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court, alleges that Palm's products, services, systems and processes have improperly used NTP's wireless e-mail technology. The suit asks the court to bar Palm from "continuing to infringe on NTP's patents" and seeks monetary damages for the alleged past infringements. A telephone message left for a Palm representative on Monday afternoon was not immediately returned. In March, BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd. agreed to pay NTP $612.5 million to settle a four-year patent dispute. Though it never conceded wrongdoing, RIM acknowledged that customers had delayed placing new orders due to the threat of a court-ordered shutdown of the BlackBerry system. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:17:30 am into the following categories: In The News11/07/06
Eastman Kodak Company today announced that the Federal Court in the District of Delaware yesterday granted summary judgment on Kodak's behalf in a patent infringement lawsuit brought by Ampex Corporation, ruling that Kodak's digital cameras do not infringe a patent owned by Ampex. The decision ends the nearly two-year litigation in the District Court, although Ampex may appeal the ruling to the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals. "We believe that the Court reached the correct result," said Laura G. Quatela, Managing Director, Intellectual Property Transactions and Vice President, Eastman Kodak Company. "Kodak is a long-standing innovator in the digital camera industry and we have devoted significant resources to the research and development of our digital capture technologies. We did not believe that Ampex's suit had merit, and the Court agreed with our position." Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:16:20 am into the following categories: In The News11/07/06
Remy International, Inc., filed patent and trademark infringement lawsuits today in the United States Federal District Court for the District of Nevada, against four major manufacturers in the rotating electrical industry. Remy alleges that the Defendants are marketing under Remy's trademarks and/or trade names and are making, importing, using, selling and/or offering to sell to major distributors or retailers in the United States various original equipement alternators and starting motors containing Remy's patented technology. Remy has requested both injunctive relief and damages in its Complaint. Remy's legal action has been brought amidst growing concern with the increasing manufacture and/or importation of patent-infringing products into United States markets. Infringing companies are channeling new "knock-off" parts into both the automotive aftermarket, which has traditionally used remanufactured products, and the original equipment market. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:15:17 am into the following categories: In The News
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