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The Surveillance Patent of the Day goes to Radian, Inc. of Alexandria for a Physiomagnetometric inspection and surveillance system and method
11/14/06

7,135,980 Physiomagnetometric inspection and surveillance system and method
  Issued: November 14, 2006
  Filed: November 6, 2002
  U.S. Class: 340/573.1
Abstract:  A passive biometric surveillance system capable of controlling access to a secure area or holding area for further interrogation or detainment. The system or apparatus passively measures a subject's various physiological parameters and compares a produced digital figure or facial image to a database. If the image corresponds to a notable individual, the subject is allowed access only to the holding area for further interrogation. If the image does not correspond to a notable individual, the system or apparatus provides an audio and/or video object or stimulus to the subject. The system or apparatus passively measures the subject's post-stimulus physiological parameters and compares these parameters with a predetermined threshold(s). Depending upon the outcome of this comparison, the subject is either allowed to pass into the secure area or is allowed only into the holding area for further interrogation.

Posted by GEN-ERIC at 10:32:24 am into the following categories: Patents of the Day

The Search Patent of the Day goes to Google, Inc. of Mountain View for Methods and apparatus for providing search results in response to an ambiguous search query
11/14/06

7,136,854 Methods and apparatus for providing search results in response to an ambiguous search query
  Issued: November 14, 2006
  Filed: December 26, 2000
  U.S. Class: 707/6
Abstract:  Methods and apparatus consistent with the invention allow a user to submit an ambiguous search query and to receive relevant search results. In one embodiment, a sequence of numbers received from a user of a standard telephone keypad is translated into a set of potentially corresponding alphanumeric sequences. These potentially corresponding alphanumeric sequences are provided as an input to a conventional search engine, using a boolean "OR" expression, and the search results are presented to the user. The search engine effectively limits search results to those in which the user was likely interested.

Posted by GEN-ERIC at 10:31:56 am into the following categories: Patents of the Day

The Full Body Sound Patent of the Day goes to Two Independent Inventors from California for a Dynamic magnetic pickup for stringed instruments
11/14/06

7,135,638 Dynamic magnetic pickup for stringed instruments
  Issued: November 14, 2006
  Filed: November 25, 2003
  U.S. Class: 84/725
Abstract:  A pickup for use in a stringed musical instrument. The pickup includes a primary transducer that is sensitive to the motion of the musical instrument's strings and is mechanically coupled to the body of the musical instrument. The primary transducer senses the motion of the musical instrument's strings and generates a "string sound" signal in response. The primary transducer is further flexibly coupled to a secondary transducer that is not fixedly attached to the body of the musical instrument. Relative motion between the primary transducer and the secondary transducer generates a "body sound" signal within the secondary transducer. The string sound signal and the body sound signal are combined to generate a signal representing the acoustical response of the musical instrument.

Posted by GEN-ERIC at 10:31:22 am into the following categories: Patents of the Day

Reissue Applications Filed - 11/14/2006
11/14/06
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Requests for Ex Parte Reexamination Filed - 11/14/2006
11/14/06
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Symantec claims patent win against SRI
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 News

Boston Scientific pays $100,000 to settle patent suit
11/14/06

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 News

Cybersettle Wins Major Patent Infringement Suit
11/14/06

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 News

Stored Value Solutions wins patent infringement case
11/14/06

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 News
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