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10/23/07
7,286,692 Automatic celebrity face matching and attractiveness rating machine
Issued: October 23, 2007
Filed: December 26, 2002
U.S. Class: 382/118
Abstract: The present invention teaches an amusement machine having the abilities of automatically finding the most likely match of a user facial image to a prestored database of facial images such as celebrity images and in estimating the degree of attractiveness of the user facial image. The amusement machine has a camera for taking a facial image of the user, automatically compares it to said prestored database of facial images, and assigns the attractiveness score. The results are then displayed to the user on a computer screen.

Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:53:34 pm into the following categories: Announcements
10/23/07
7,287,029 Tagging data assets
Issued: October 23, 2007
Filed: September 25, 2003
U.S. Class: 707/7
Abstract: Computer-implemented methods, program products and data structures for tagging data assets are disclosed. An interface which can receive location information to identify a storage location identifier for a data asset to be saved is presented to a user. The location information for the data asset to be saved and a selection identifying a concept and a relation between the concept and the data asset to be saved are received from the user through the interface. The asset reference for the data asset to be saved is stored in a tag database and an association is created in the tag database representing the relation between the data asset to be saved and the identified concept.

Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:53:08 pm into the following categories: Patents of the Day
10/23/07
7,285,714 Pickup for digital guitar
Issued: October 23, 2007
Filed: September 9, 2005
U.S. Class: 84/726
Abstract: A reluctance pickup for a guitar including a pair of magnetic pole pieces disposed within wire coils. The coils are oppositely wound and wired in series. Each pole piece has an elongated magnetic pole end extending above its respective coil. The pole pieces are disposed so as to form a pickup face having two approximately parallel elongated pole ends. The elongated pole ends have opposite magnetic polarities and create a magnetic field therebetween. The pickup is mounted beneath a magnetically permeable string such that a projection of the string intersects the pole ends at a selected orientation angle between approximately 28 degrees and approximately 58 degrees, preferably, 43 degrees, so as to optimize selected performance parameters of the pickup, including: channel-to-channel separation, frequency response, and dynamic response.

Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:52:35 pm into the following categories: Patents of the Day
10/23/07
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10/23/07
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10/23/07
First, Verizon did it. Then Sprint Nextel got in on the action. And now Vonage has admitted in a regulatory filing that AT&T has also joined the patent infringement party. After failing to arrange a settlement over a single patent that "lets users access an internet phone system using a standard phone device," AT&T told the Wall Street Journal that it was forced to take legal action against the beleaguered VoIP company. This means that every major wireless company here in the U.S. has singled out Vonage in patent infringement cases. It also means one more nail has been placed in Vonage's coffin. Most recently, Vonage settled the Sprint Nextel lawsuit for $80 million. The out of court deal covers both past and future use of patents and came only weeks after a federal jury ordered Vonage to pay Sprint $69.5 million in damages.
Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:25:52 am into the following categories: In The News
10/23/07
Nutratech, Inc. has successfully concluded its patent infringement lawsuit against Syntech (SSPF) International, Inc., over the sale of Citrus aurantium (bitter orange) extract. Syntech has acknowledged the validity and infringement of U.S. patents licensed exclusively to Nutratech on the use of Citrus aurantium extract for stimulating thermogenesis, reducing weight, and suppressing appetite. Advantra Z®, Nutratech’s proprietary Citrus aurantium extract, is the industry’s leading patented thermogenic ingredient.
Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:25:00 am into the following categories: In The News
10/23/07
Wellman, Inc. announces the initiation of a patent infringement lawsuit against Eastman Chemical Company for infringement of United States Patent Nos. 7,129,317 and 7,094,863 owned by Wellman that cover titanium catalyzed polyethylene terephthalate (“PET”) resins and the preforms made from titanium catalyzed PET resins. The complaint alleges that Eastman infringes Wellman’s ‘317 patent with its ParaStar resins that are made from its IntegRex process and Eastman is inducing third parties, including its customers, to infringe Wellman’s ‘863 patent when they make preforms using ParaStar resin.
Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:24:12 am into the following categories: In The News
10/23/07
Renesas Technology Corp. today announced that the company has won the patent infringement lawsuit filed by Translogic Technology, Inc. against Renesas Technology America, Inc., Hitachi, Ltd. and its affiliates. Recently, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) upheld a ruling of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that the patent (No. 5,162,666) issued to Translogic Technology is invalid. In addition, the CAFC ordered the dismissal of the patent infringement suit, overturning the judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon, which had awarded Translogic Technology $86.5 million (plus interest) in damages and to suspend sales of products incorporating the disputed technology.
Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:22:59 am into the following categories: In The News
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