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The Insurance Credit Account Patent of the Day goes to an Independent Inventor from Las Vegas for a Computerized system for combining insurance company and credit card transactions
07/17/07

7,246,068 Computerized system for combining insurance company and credit card transactions
  Issued: July 17, 2007
  Filed: August 10, 2001
  U.S. Class: 705/2
Abstract:  A method and apparatus for combining a credit card account with a medical services or insurance account. A client establishes a credit card account and links the credit card account to an insurance policy or medical services account. The client uses the credit card and generates rebates used to offset the cost of the insurance policy or make payments into the medical services account. The form of the rebate depends on the type of insurance policy or medical services account selected by the client. An interactive Web site is provided for creation, coordination, and monitoring of the linked credit card accounts and insurance policies. A client uses the interactive Web site to explore different insurance policies and the effects of using credit card rebates to offset the price of an insurance policy. The interactive Web site also provides services for the client to maintain and monitor the linked accounts.

Posted by GEN-ERIC at 11:01:06 am into the following categories: Patents of the Day

The Emergency Patent of the Day goes to BellSouth Intellectual Property Corporation of Delaware for an Automated third party call activated when 911 dialed
07/17/07

7,245,704 Automated third party call activated when 911 dialed
  Issued: July 17, 2007
  Filed: January 30, 2004
  U.S. Class: 379/45
Abstract:  Methods, systems, and apparatuses that operate with different communications devices, different users, and/or different communications networks to generate, enable, disable, transmit, and/or otherwise control an Emergency Third Party Communications Signal. According to embodiments of this invention, a communications network establishes an emergency communications link between a calling party and an emergency response call center. Thereafter, the communications network automatically associates a third party to add to the emergency communications link and uses the Emergency Third Party Communications Signal to establish an emergency conferencing communications link between the third party, the calling party, and/or the emergency response call center.

Posted by GEN-ERIC at 11:00:37 am into the following categories: Patents of the Day

The Packet Insurance Patent of the Day goes to TranSurety, LLC of Minneapolis for Systems and methods for underwriting coverage for data transmissions
07/17/07

7,246,157 Systems and methods for underwriting coverage for data transmissions
  Issued: July 17, 2007
  Filed: February 4, 2006
  U.S. Class: 709/217
Abstract:  The present invention provides systems and methods which afford a technical application for insuring, bonding, and underwriting a transmission of a data set, streaming data, and/or document over the Internet through TCP/IP and all other electronic media such as WAP, VOIP, fiber optic channels, microwave channels, and through standard electrical switches, electrical outlets and power lines. The present invention includes a computer readable medium having computer executable instruction to cause a system perform a method for insuring, bonding, and/or underwriting data transmission. The method includes enabling a first remote client coupled to a communications network to insure, bond, and/or underwrite a transmission of an electronic data set, streaming data, and/or document, with a selected coverage type for a selected coverage amount, from the first remote client to one or more second remote clients. The method includes charging a fee to an appropriate account for the selected coverage type and amount.

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Reissue Applications Filed - 7/17/2007
07/17/07
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Requests for Ex Parte Reexamination Filed - 7/17/2007
07/17/07
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QLT likely to appeal order to pay US$69.6 million in Visudyne lawsuit
07/17/07

Eye drug developer QLT Inc. (TSX:QLT) is on the hook for nearly US$70 million in past penalties and tens of millions of dollars for future sales of its Visudyne drug in the wake of a legal decision by a U.S. district court Tuesday. The Vancouver company said the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts affirmed a 2006 decision by a federal jury that had found QLT liable for unfair trade practices and ordered it to pay damages to the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. Under the decision the company must pay US$69.6 million as past damages for royalties, plus interest and legal fees, and royalties on future Visudyne sales.

Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:04:12 am into the following categories: In The News

Plasma Panel Patent Infringement Case Settles
07/17/07

Competitive Technologies, Inc. announced today that CTT, its client, the University of Illinois, and all Fujitsu defendants have reached a settlement in the long-standing patent infringement suit regarding US Patent Nos. 4,866,349 and 5,081,400 covering plasma display panels (PDPs) and related circuitry. As part of the settlement, CTT will pay Fujitsu a minor portion of the approximately $233,000 costs awarded to Fujitsu by the courts in 2006. The parties will dismiss with prejudice all claims and counterclaims in the suit.

Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:03:02 am into the following categories: In The News

Warner Music Settles With Social Networking Startup imeem
07/17/07

Warner Music Group said Thursday it would drop its patent infringement lawsuit against social-networking site imeem, instead offering access to the music giant's catalog for a cut of the startup's revenue. Imeem didn't disclose the percentage of revenue it would share with Warner. In May, Warner Music sued San Francisco-based imeem , charging the company let users share copyrighted content without permission. Imeem now says it wants to offer other record labels a share of the profit from its music-sharing service in exchange for access to copyrighted content.

Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:01:36 am into the following categories: In The News

Spectranetics sues rival over patent infringement
07/17/07

Medtronic Inc., the world's largest maker of devices used to regulate heart rhythms, was sued by Spectranetics Corp. over a technology for sucking deposits out of blood vessels, the heart and lungs. Medtronic's Export XT 6F model aspiration catheter is among the products that violate a U.S. patent covering a device and method for removing intravascular, pulmonary and cardiac obstructions, Spectranetics said July 10 in a complaint in federal court in Austin, Texas. Spectranetics, a maker of medical lasers based in Colorado Springs, asked the court to block Minneapolis-based Medtronic from using the patented technology and to award cash compensation for past infringement.

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