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03/27/07
7,197,544 Voice and video greeting system for personal advertisement and method  03/27/07
7,197,135 Systems and methods for caller-controlled tune notification of a call  03/27/07
7,197,143 Digital video authenticator  03/27/07
Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio have both been sued by Austin, Texas-based company Keystone Autonics, for alleged patent infringement. Keystone Autonics claims that both radio companies are using technology taken directly from patents it owns. Sirius and XM are already experiencing several problems, which include the RIAA and critics of their proposed merger. The patent in question was awarded to George Hindman of Keystone Autonics in January. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is also clashing with the pair over a bill the trade group supports that would prevent users from being able to locally store and record songs aired over satellite radio. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:03:55 am into the following categories: In The News03/27/07
A U.S. Court of Appeals has overturned a 2005 patent verdict in favor of Biomet Inc. and ruled in favor of rival Medtronic. The Appeals Court this week said that Medtronic's multiaxial pedicle screw products do not infringe on a patent held by Cross Medical Products, a subsidiary of Biomet. The screw is used by surgeons to stabilize and correct back disorders. The ruling leaves Medtronic free to continue to sell its products. Medtronic is pursuing several patent claims of its own, alleging Biomet products infringe on its patents, the company reported in Memphis. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:03:09 am into the following categories: In The News03/27/07
TechWing, Inc., a specialized semiconductor test handler manufacturer, announced that TechWing has filed a patent infringement claim against Mirae in Suwon District Court, South Korea, on Mar. 26, 2007. TechWing said, Mirae's M420 (256 parallel semiconductor test handler), M500 (512 parallel semiconductor test handler) and M520 (640 parallel semiconductor test handler) models infringed on TechWing's temperature control technology. Therefore, TechWing filed an action for injunction and compensation for damages against Mirae. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:02:23 am into the following categories: In The News03/27/07
A long-awaited first ruling in the European Central Bank’s patent validity lawsuit against Document Security Systems Inc. was announced Monday—going against the local firm. The English High Court deemed DSS’ patent invalid in the United Kingdom in its interpretation of “added matter,” which the company’s chairman and CEO called a technical interpretation in the suit over DSS anti-counterfeiting technology used in the production of billions of euro banknotes. “Our shareholders should be aware that we successfully defended against all forms of ‘prior art’ and all other claims of invalidity where science and facts were involved,” CEO Patrick White said in a statement. “It all came down to the test where the court’s understanding of the scope of the disclosure of the patent as filed differed from the Technical Board of Appeal of the European Patents Office’s interpretation, which allowed the scope of the claims to grant.” White said the company is considering its options to appeal the decision but will continue to defend the patent’s validity in the eight remaining European national courts where the case also will be heard. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:01:33 am into the following categories: In The News03/20/07
7,194,484 Correction of address information  03/20/07
7,194,253 Product order method and system  03/20/07
7,194,289 Cell phone with mirror  03/20/07
Nokia filed complaints on Monday against Qualcomm in Germany and the Netherlands asking that its wireless technology rival’s European patents be declared “exhausted” for products on that market. Nokia has been buying Texas Instruments chipsets for its mobile phones and claims it is protected from patent infringement suits from Qualcomm because of an existing cross-licensing agreement between Qualcomm and TI. The suit is the latest skirmish in an ongoing battle between the two mobile technology companies over patents. Qualcomm has a large set of patents covering CDMA (code division multiple access) technology and has been trying to extend them to the kinds of high-speed technologies such as WCDMA (wideband CDMA) to which the mobile industry has been moving. If Nokia’s claim succeeds, the company said, Qualcomm would be prevented from enforcing its patents with respect to Nokia’s phones that contain the TI chipsets. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:05:30 am into the following categories: In The News03/20/07
A federal jury in Wilmington, Del., found that Illumina Inc. infringed on five patents controlled by Affymetrix Inc. San Diego-based Illumina said Tuesday it will appeal the outcome of a patent infringement verdict in which it has been ordered to pay Santa Clara-based Affymetrix Inc. $16.7 million. Affymetrix, which is expanding its West Sacramento plant, makes microchips used in genetic research. Illumina said it will continue to sell the products in dispute while it pursues its appeals. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:04:40 am into the following categories: In The News03/20/07
Pennsylvania-based Document Solutions Group (DSG) has settled a longstanding, patent infringement suit filed by St. Paul, Minn.-based technology company Datasci. Financial terms were not released. "We are very pleased that this lawsuit is dismissed, and our current customer base and prospects will be excited to know that this lawsuit is behind us so we can put all our energies toward our customers and products in the life sciences industry,"stated DSG's chief executive officer, Tony Varano. Datasci filed similar lawsuits against eClinical companies Phase Forward, Datatrak, etrials and DataLabs. Phase Forward settled for $8.5 million in the suit Datasci filed against the company in June 2004. In August 2006, DataLabs, which was acquired by ClinPhone in October 2006, settled its suit for an undisclosed amount and a nonexclusive licensing arrangement. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:03:34 am into the following categories: In The News03/20/07
Codon Devices Inc. announced today that the Company has filed a lawsuit against Blue Heron Biotechnology of Bothell, WA. The Complaint, filed in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, asserts that Blue Heron Biotechnology, through use of its Genemaker(r) gene synthesis platform, is infringing five U.S. patents. The asserted patents, which cover pioneering DNA error correction technologies, include United States Patent Nos. 5,459,039; 5,556,750; 5,679,522; 5,702,894; and 5,750,335, all of which are exclusively licensed to Codon Devices. The Complaint seeks unspecified monetary damages and a court injunction against future infringement by Blue Heron Biotechnology. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:02:29 am into the following categories: In The News03/13/07
7,191,116 Methods and systems for determining a language of a document  03/13/07
7,189,134 Interactive beverage bottle top  03/13/07
7,191,219 Self-destructing document and e-mail messaging system  03/13/07
A federal jury on Thursday found that Internet phone carrier Vonage Holdings Corp. had infringed on Verizon Communications Inc.'s patents and ordered Vonage to pay $58 million. The judgment is far less than the $197 million that Verizon had requested, and it was more in line with the figure that Vonage had suggested—if the Holmdel, N.J.-based company was found to be liable. Still undetermined is whether Vonage will be barred from using Verizon's technology. Following the verdict, attorneys for New York-based Verizon requested a permanent injunction barring Vonage from further use of the patented technology. A hearing on the request was scheduled for March 23. Verizon sued Vonage last year for infringing on five patents that it said Vonage uses to make its Internet telephone service network functional. The eight-person jury found Vonage infringed on three of the five patents. The jury found in its verdict that Vonage's infringement was not willful. That means that Verizon cannot collect triple damages, which can be awarded in patent infringement cases. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:06:09 am into the following categories: In The News03/13/07
A U.S. judge ruled that Google Inc.'s 3D modeling software, which gives Web users an astronaut's view of the earth and allows them to zoom down to street level, does not infringe the patent of a rival. Judge Douglas Woodlock of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts in Boston denied a complaint by Skyline Software Systems Inc. that the Google Earth mapping software of Google's Keyhole Inc. infringed Skyline patents. The judge also denied motions from both parties on whether the patents in question were valid, but left the possibility for either party to reassert these issues if they do so before April 20. He canceled a planned trial date set for June. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:04:15 am into the following categories: In The News03/13/07
3M has filed a federal lawsuit alleging that several IT vendors, including Lenovo Group, Hitachi, Sony and Panasonic, violated two patents the company holds for the design for lithium-ion batteries. The lawsuit, which was filed in U.S. District Court in Minnesota on March 7, also names CDW, Batteries Com, Total Micro Technologies and Matsushita Electronic Industrial. In addition to damages, the lawsuit asks that these companies stop selling batteries that infringe on 3M's patented designs. In its lawsuit, 3M, which is based in Maplewood, Minn., claims these companies infringed on lithium-ion battery designs the company filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Nov. 15, 2005, and July 18, 2006. Specifically, the patents— No. 6,964,828 and No. 7,078,128—refer to 3M's design of "Cathode Compositions for Lithium-Ion Batteries." In designing lithium-ion batteries, the cathode is a reference to the positive electrode within the battery. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:03:22 am into the following categories: In The News03/13/07
Synergetics USA Inc. said Monday that a pending patent infringement lawsuit brought by Iridex Corp. will be taken before a jury. In October 2005, Iridex, of Mountain View, Calif., filed a suit against Synergetics in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri alleging patent infringement. Medical device maker Synergetics said Feb. 28 that, according to a court-issued order, its current connector design does not infringe on Iridex Corp.'s patent. But Synergetics said the court also found that Synergetics' old product design infringes some claims of the Iridex patent. Iridex's lawsuit alleged that Synergetics infringed on its patent (U.S. Patent No. 5,085,492) for laser probe technology used in its EndoProbe products and other laser-delivery devices. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:02:13 am into the following categories: In The News03/06/07
7,188,153 System and method for managing connections in an online social network  03/06/07
7,186,226 Process for making a massage device departing from an electric toothbrush  03/06/07
7,187,932 Autopopulation of address book entries  03/06/07
Sony has agreed to pay Immersion $150.3 million in ending a patent-infringement suit in which the latter company claimed the consumer electronics giant used its technology in the PlayStation videogame console. The agreement followed Sony's decision to withdraw its appeal of a federal court jury decision awarding Immersion $127.8 million, an Immersion spokeswoman said Friday. The Oakland, Calif., jury found Sony guilty of patent infringement in 2004. In a separate but related agreement, Sony has licensed Immersion technology for $22.5 million, the spokeswoman said. The suit stemmed from Sony's use of Immersion software that causes the PlayStation controller to vibrate in sync with the videogame action. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 02:42:04 am into the following categories: In The News03/06/07
A week after Microsoft was ordered to hand over $1.5 billion in an Alcatel-Lucent MP3 patent dispute, a federal judge has ruled that the Windows maker did not violate a patent at the heart of a second trial that was set to begin soon. The ruling from the bench by U.S. District Judge Rudi Brewster in San Diego late Thursday relates to an Alcatel-Lucent patent covering speech coding technology, the companies said. The judge dismissed all of Alcatel-Lucent's claims, which means a jury trial set to begin March 19 will not proceed, Microsoft spokesman Jack Evans said. Alcatel-Lucent plans to appeal the ruling and is "comfortable with our chances of success as the case makes its way through the legal system," spokeswoman Joan Campion said Friday. Microsoft deputy general counsel Tom Burt said the ruling "reaffirms our confidence that once there's judicial review of these complex patent cases, these Alcatel-Lucent claims ultimately won't stand up." Posted by GEN-ERIC at 02:39:22 am into the following categories: In The News03/06/07
Intel and privately held AmberWave Systems said they have settled all patent infringement lawsuits related to AmberWave's strained silicon patent portfolio. Under the agreement, the world's largest maker of chips has received a license to all AmberWave patents and patent applications either existing today or filed during the agreement's 10-year term, the companies said. Intel will make license payments to AmberWave over the term of the agreement. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 02:38:16 am into the following categories: In The News03/06/07
Israel-based Nova Measuring Instruments Ltd. said Monday the court has granted its motion for a stay in a patent suit filed against it by Nanometrics Inc. Judge Saundra Brown Armstrong in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted the stay, while the U.S Patent & Trademark Office re-examines the patent, the company said. The patent infringement suit was filed in late March 2006. Nova, which makes optical monitoring systems used in chip manufacturing, denies that it has infringed a Nanometrics patent. Nanometrics Chief Financial Officer Douglas McCutcheon confirmed that the judge stayed the proceedings and said this is very common in the early stages of litigation when not much discovery has taken place. The Milpitas, Calif., company provides thin-film metrology and inspection systems used to make precision electronic gear. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 02:35:32 am into the following categories: In The News
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