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02/27/07
7,184,907 Apparatus and method to detect an intrusion point along a security fence  02/27/07
7,184,032 Tactile overlays for screens  02/27/07
7,184,580 Fingerprint scar recognition method and apparatus  02/27/07
A U.S. court has ruled that IT giant Microsoft has breached Alcatel-Lucent's patents for converting audio files to MP3. Microsoft was ordered to pay out $1.52 billion to French phone equipment firm, Alcatel-Lucent in what has been called the largest patent award in history. At the heart of the case is the issue whether Alcatel should be paid for the technology when Microsoft says it has already paid who it thought was the licensee, Germany's Fraunhofer Institute and Bell Labs. Alcatel, however, claims it was not paid its fair share of the patent since 2003 when the firm bought Bell. Analysts are now saying this verdict could have a wider impact with impact on hundreds of companies utilizing the format, which includes the likes of Apple, and RealNetworks. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:06:18 am into the following categories: In The News02/27/07
Wireless technology rivals Qualcomm Inc. and Broadcom Corp. said Friday they have agreed to end two court disputes over patents. The deal was the latest twist in a ferocious legal battle between the two companies over licensing agreements, which has spawned a web of suits and countersuits from California to Europe relating to technologies that power cell phones, Bluetooth devices and wireless Internet equipment. Neither company disclosed financial terms or details of the agreement. The settlement eliminates two of several jury trials scheduled for this year between the rivals -- one involving Broadcom claims that Qualcomm infringed two of its patents and another in which Qualcomm claimed its competitor violated two of its patents. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:05:06 am into the following categories: In The News02/27/07
Vonage Holdings Corp., a pioneer in placing phone calls over the Internet, was in federal court last week defending itself against a nearly $200 million patent-infringement suit filed by Verizon Communications, the second-largest phone company in the U.S. Although Vonage made a name for itself as an innovator in digital voice communications, Verizon claims that Vonage has been illegally using patented Verizon technologies at the core of voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) service, including signaling interconnectivity, authorization, authentication, billing and fraud prevention. Verizon, defending five patents in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., is seeking $197 million in damages, equal to about 25% of Vonage's current market value. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:04:18 am into the following categories: In The News02/27/07
Japan's Astellas Pharma Inc. said on Friday it had won a suit against Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. to prevent the Indian drug maker from releasing an early generic version of its Flomax prostate drug. Astellas, Japan's third-largest drug maker and Germany's Boehringer Ingelheim, which jointly market the drug in the United States, had filed the suit at the U.S. District Court of New Jersey. The U.S. patent on Flomax, used to treat enlarged prostates, expires in Oct. 2009 Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:03:04 am into the following categories: In The News
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