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01/30/07
7,170,391 Birth and other legal documents having an RFID device and method of use for certification and authentication  01/30/07
7,169,010 Block and gavel with the intention to relieve stress novelty-kit  01/30/07
7,170,971 System and method for safe mail transmission  01/30/07
UK-based Quantum Research Group has filed a lawsuit against Apple Inc. over patent infringement of the company's capacitive sensing technology. The touch sensor chip company says that Apple's iPod makes use of the technology via the iPod's now-famous click wheel. "Some are based on Cypress' PSoC chip and used in a way we believe infringes our patent," CEO Hal Philipp told Electronics Weekly. Interestingly, the suit was actually filed just over a year ago in December of 2005 but only came to public light recently when Apple revealed that it had filed an answer to the suit. Apple's response was, of course, that they did not infringe on any patents. In addition to the company's formal denial of all allegations, it also filed a countersuit against Quantum for noninfringement. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:14:35 am into the following categories: In The News01/30/07
Broadcom Corp. did not infringe on patents controlled by Qualcomm Inc., a federal court jury in San Diego decided Friday in one of a half-dozen legal duels between the rival chip makers. In the suit, San Diego-based Qualcomm said Broadcom owed $8.3 million for infringing on two Qualcomm patents used in chips for video compression in electronic devices, such as Applevideo iPods, high-definition DVD players, and cable and satellite TV set-top boxes. That dollar figure is relatively small for the two chip titans, which are battling in several courts and international trade organizations over control of the next generation of cell phone technology. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:13:44 am into the following categories: In The News01/30/07
Amgen Inc. prevailed in a long-running patent dispute over its rheumatoid arthritis drug Enbrel Monday when a U.S. federal appeals court ruled an Israeli company cannot seek royalties on the drug. The patent dispute, on the face of it, covers a protein used to treat rheumatoid arthritis that was originally licensed to Immunex Corp. before it was acquired by Amgen in 2001. But the case before the court hinged on the question of who owned the patent being disputed. The federal court ruled that Israel Bio-Engineering Project lacked standing to sue Amgen for infringement of the patent because it could not establish sole ownership of the patent. The court upheld in earlier finding that Yeda Research and Development Co. is at least a part-owner of the patent. Yeda declined to participate in the patent dispute. As a result, Israel Bio-Engineering Project could not establish sole ownership of the patent and, therefore, was not in a position to sue. Amgen's position, one it has maintained throughout the patent dispute that began in 1999, was that the patent at issue doesn't even cover Enbrel, said David Polk, a spokesman for the company, late Monday. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:12:46 am into the following categories: In The News01/30/07
PetMed Express is to pay an undisclosed sum to settle patent litigation over telephone technology. Bruce S. Rosenbloom, chief financial officer at the Pompano Beach, Fla.-based pet pharmacy, said a confidentiality agreement prevents PetMed from disclosing the amount of the settlement. However, he said if it was a material sum, PetMed would have to disclose it. There is no disclosure coming, he added. "It's basically related to using telephone touch key pads for ordering," he said of the patent infringement suit filed in August 2000. The funds entitle PetMed to a nonexclusive license to use the system. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:11:41 am into the following categories: In The News01/23/07
7,167,715 System and method for determining relative positioning in Ad-Hoc networks  01/23/07
7,167,100 Apparatus for leaving message on refrigerator  01/23/07
7,166,794 Hexaphonic pickup for digital guitar system  01/23/07
OPTi filed suit in U.S. District Court in Texas against Apple, claiming that Apple Macs are infringing on its patents for speeding up cache memory. The technology, called "predictive snooping of cache memory," allows a controller to bypass the normal memory cycle in a burst access. OPTi claims that Apple has infringed on three of its patents. The company is seeking damages and punitive damages. OPTi's attorney, Samuel Baxter, said the case was filed in Texas because of the technology expertise among the judges in the Eastern District of Texas and the courts' ability to move cases quickly. Both OPTi and Apple are headquartered in Silicon Valley. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 01:49:50 am into the following categories: In The News01/23/07
Zilog filed a patent infringement suit against Altera and Actel over technology that allows chip communications to be programmed after they’re already fabricated. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, revolves around a patent entitled “Integrated Circuit Programmable Cross-Point Connection Technique.” Posted by GEN-ERIC at 01:48:57 am into the following categories: In The News01/23/07
Apcon Inc. is suing MRV Communications Inc. and Curtiss-Wright Corp. in federal court for patent infringement. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, and seeks to prevent MRV and Curtiss-Wright from infringing upon Apcon's U.S. Patent No. 6,243,510. Wilsonville-based Apcon designs, manufactures and sells electronic products including Intellapatch physical layer switches, as well as other network products providing high-speed connections between computers and computer peripherals. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 01:47:45 am into the following categories: In The News01/23/07
Cabot Microelectronics Corporation, the world's leading supplier of chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) slurries to the semiconductor industry, announced that today it filed a legal action against DuPont Air Products NanoMaterials LLC (DA Nano) for DA Nano's manufacture and marketing of certain CMP slurries that infringe patents owned by Cabot Microelectronics. The affected DA Nano products include those used for tungsten CMP. As explained in Cabot Microelectronics' December 12, 2006 press release on the matter, Cabot Microelectronics filed its complaint as a counterclaim in response to an action filed by DA Nano in the United States District Court for the District of Arizona regarding some of the patents at issue. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 01:46:41 am into the following categories: In The News01/16/07
7,165,069 Analysis of search activities of users to identify related network sites  01/16/07
7,163,459 Mobile lottery games over a wireless network  01/16/07
7,164,076 System and method for synchronizing a live musical performance with a reference performance  01/16/07
In October 2006, Transmeta filed suit agaist Intel, alleging that certain Intel processors violated 11 Transmeta patents. Transmeta said at the time that Intel has shipped some $100 billion worth of Pentium chips that use the patented Transmeta technology. Intel's new countersuit states that Transmeta does not have a legitimate claim to the patents. Three months after fending off patent-infringement allegations from Transmeta, Intel is fighting back with allegations of its own, claiming its much smaller rival is violating more than a half-dozen of the chipmaker's patents. Intel has refuted Transmeta's allegations -- that several of Intel's popular Pentium products infringed on Transmeta patents -- and filed a countersuit in U.S. District Court in Delaware. In the countersuit, Intel claims Transmeta infringed on seven of Intel's patents relating to processor functionality and one that covers an "apparatus for controlling power usage." Posted by GEN-ERIC at 03:07:45 am into the following categories: In The News01/16/07
A Delaware judge has upheld a federal jury's verdict of patent infringement against LendingTree Inc. U.S. District Court Chief Judge Sue Robinson also raised the damages award by 50 percent to $8.7 million, as well as awarding pre- and post-judgment interest. Houston-based IMX Inc., a mortgage industry software provider, received the favorable jury verdict in its patent lawsuit against Charlotte-based LendingTree after a two-week trial last January. The jury found LendingTree had willfully infringed an IMX patent that provides an Internet-accessible, interactive, real-time network through which borrowers and lenders exchange information to secure loans, according to IMX officials. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 03:01:23 am into the following categories: In The News01/16/07
Digene Corp. said Friday it filed a lawsuit against Third Wave Technologies Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin, alleging the company infringes on its patented HPV test. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Gaithersburg, Md.-based Digene said it is seeking an injunction and undisclosed compensatory damages. Digene makes DNA and RNA test that screen women for infectious diseases and cancers. Its test to detect HPV, or human papillomavirus, is the only one of its kind to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 02:57:34 am into the following categories: In The News01/16/07
Electronic-design software and tools company Mentor Graphics Corp. has settled a patent dispute with verification company EVE Corp. Mentor had sued Paris-headquartered EVE, which has its U.S. headquarters in San Jose, Calif., in March last year, alleging infringement of three patents. EVE has settled the litigation by agreeing to license the relevant technology from Mentor, said Ry Schwark, director of public and investor relations. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 02:56:20 am into the following categories: In The News01/09/07
7,162,686 System and method for navigating search results  01/09/07
7,159,539 Smart bowl system  01/09/07
7,160,050 Lockable manhole cover  01/09/07
Video on demand pioneer Intertainer flamed out back in 2002, but not before filing a broad patent for "managing, distributing, and/or retailing digital media assets." That patent was granted in 2005, and the remnants of Intertainer (one co-founder and a secretary) have now launched a patent infringement lawsuit against three Internet heavyweights—Apple, Google, and Napster. And if the suit is successful, more litigation will follow. The lawsuit was filed on December 29, 2006, in the Eastern District of Texas. It might seem odd for a California company to sue other California companies in a Texas federal court, but to patent lawyers, there's nothing mysterious about it; several Texas districts are well-known for favoring plaintiffs. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:12:39 am into the following categories: In The News01/09/07
In a suit filed on Dec. 21 in Seattle federal court, the Washington Research Foundation accused Samsung, Matsushita Electric Industrial, and Nokia of using patented Bluetooth technology without permission. Bluetooth allows users of mobile phones and digital gizmos to exchange data and voice signals with nearby PCs and other electronic devices. Samsung spokeswoman Eunhee Lee declined to comment on the alleged patent infringement, saying it was her company's policy not to discuss a pending lawsuit. The Seattle-based Washington Research Foundation seeks a court order barring the sale of products that use the patented technology. It calls on the defendants to use Bluetooth chip sets made by Broadcom, which licenses the technology. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:09:23 am into the following categories: In The News01/09/07
Biotechnology Company Innogenetics announced today that a U.S. District Court judge for the Western District of Wisconsin affirmed a previously awarded $7 million damage verdict against Abbott Laboratories for infringing the company's HCV genotyping patent. In the same ruling the judge rejected Abbott's requests for a new trial on infringement and validity. The January 3, 2007 order also granted Innogenetics' motion for prejudgment interest on the damage award and set a January 11 evidentiary hearing date to consider the company's request for a permanent injunction against Abbott's sale of infringing products. The judge's opinion vacated the jury's determination that Abbott willfully infringed Innogenetics' patent, and declined to award enhanced damages or attorneys fees. "By upholding the jury's award of damages, today's ruling sends a message to companies large and small that mistakenly believe they can misappropriate others' innovations without regard for the law," said Frank Morich, CEO of Innogenetics. This litigation began in September 2005 when Innogenetics sued Abbott Laboratories alleging that Abbott was infringing the company's United States patent covering a method of genotyping the Hepatitis C Virus (U.S. Patent No. 5,846,704, "the '704 patent"). Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:06:48 am into the following categories: In The News01/09/07
Privately held Global Locate, Inc., a leading producer of Assisted-GPS semiconductors and software, announced that it is filing today an Answer and Counterclaims against SiRF Technology, Inc in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California seeking monetary damages and an injunction against SiRF's infringement of four of Global Locate's Assisted-GPS technology patents. Global Locate is filing its Answer and Counterclaims in response to a claim that SiRF initiated on December 15, 2006, after SiRF's stock price dropped precipitously on news that TomTom, a major SiRF customer, had awarded a significant contract to Global Locate. Global Locate believes that SiRF's complaint lacks merit and will fail. As described in its Counterclaims, Global Locate's Patent No.s 6,542,820 and 6,560,534 cover proprietary, Long Term Orbit (LTO) technology invented by Global Locate. LTO extends for several days the usability period of ephemeris assistance data, thereby minimizing the start-up time and enhancing the sensitivity of mobile devices. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:04:03 am into the following categories: In The News01/02/07
7,158,949 Method for providing property rights based guarantees  01/02/07
7,158,808 Method of branding the keypad of a wireless device  01/02/07
7,156,744 Recirculating vertical wind tunnel skydiving simulator  01/02/07
Sanofi-Aventis SA and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. won a Canadian federal court ruling dismissing an appeal by drugmaker Apotex Inc. that sought permission to market a generic version of the blood thinner Plavix. Apotex argued that it should be allowed to sell the drug because the patent for Plavix is invalid. Manufactured by Paris- based Sanofi and licensed by New York-based Bristol Myers, Plavix garnered $6.3 billion in global sales last year and is the biggest-selling drug for Bristol-Myers and the second-biggest product for Sanofi. Canadian appeals court Judge Marc Noel in Ottawa said arguments supporting the validity of the patent are ``amply supported by the record and unchallenged by Apotex,'' according to a Dec. 22 opinion upholding a lower court decision. The ruling is the second victory related to Plavix for Sanofi and Bristol Myers this month. On Dec. 8, they won a similar court ruling preventing Apotex from selling a generic version in the U.S. until a trial on the patent's validity. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:07:59 am into the following categories: In The News01/02/07
In a decisive victory for Google, a Wisconsin judge dismissed a company’s claims that two of the Internet giant’s search tools violated its patents. HyperPhrase Technologies had filed a lawsuit in April alleging that Google’s AdSense and AutoLink features infringed on four search patents that HyperPhrase owned for storage and retrieval of medical records. Those patents were filed starting in 1997 by inventor Carlos de la Huerga. But on December 21, Judge John C. Shabaz of the Federal District Court in Madison, Wisconsin, used unusually strong language to reject HyperPhrase’s claims before the suit could be brought to trial. HyperPhrase also lost a similar patent suit in September 2003 that it had filed against Microsoft over its Office XP Smart Tags function. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:03:50 am into the following categories: In The News01/02/07
Solexa, Inc. today announced that it has learned of a lawsuit filed in a California state court in Santa Clara County naming Solexa as a defendant. The complaint was filed by the Applied Biosystems Group of Applera Corporation on December 26, 2006. Solexa has not been served with the complaint. The suit relates to the ownership of several patents assigned in 1995 to Solexa's predecessor company, Lynx Therapeutics, by a former employee, Dr. Stephen Macevicz, who is named as a co-defendant in the suit. Lynx was originally a unit of AB and was spun out in 1992. The patents at issue in the suit relate to methods for sequencing DNA using successive rounds of oligonucleotide probe ligation (Sequencing-by-Ligation). Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:02:32 am into the following categories: In The News
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