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11/27/07
7,302,395 Speech notification  11/27/07
7,302,349 System and a method for observing and predicting a physiological state of an animal  11/27/07
7,300,625 Chlorine gas generating candle  11/27/07
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) must pay more than $140 million for infringing on software patents owned by a Michigan-based technology company, a federal appeals court has ruled. Z4 Technologies Inc. sued Microsoft and Autodesk Inc. (ADSK), maker of drafting software, in 2004, claiming the technology they used to activate newly installed software and deter piracy infringed on patents created and owned by David Colvin, the owner of privately held z4. Commerce Township, Mich.-based z4 argued that Microsoft's Windows XP and Office 2003 suite of productivity software used its patented method of asking computer users to supply two passwords, or authorization codes, before they could fully use new software. The technology in question also can be used to deactivate software. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:30:18 am into the following categories: In The News11/27/07
Ten million dollars. That's the amount Apple has agreed to pay software developer Burst in exchange for a non-exclusive license to most of the company's patent portfolio, excluding 3 pending U.S. patent applications related to new DVR technology. Oh, and Burst also promised not to sue Apple for any future infringement of these patents. After a prolonged two-year court battle, the two companies recently announced that the they settled their ongoing dispute, which had to do with a handful of audio and video delivery technologies. In 2004, Burst claimed that Apple's iPod, iTunes and Quicktime products used many of its audio and video patents and subsequently asked Apple to license them. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:28:12 am into the following categories: In The News11/27/07
CIBA Vision and CooperVision Inc. reported they have reached an agreement to settle patent litigation that resolves all current patent infringement lawsuits between the two companies. CIBA Vision, the Duluth, Ga.-based eye-care unit of Novartis, said it has licensed its so called "Nicolson" patents to CooperVision. This will enable both companies to move forward in bringing forth new and improved products. The Nicolson patents cover high-oxygen-transmissible contact lenses, including CIBA Vision's O2OPTIX AIR OPTIXand NIGHT & DAY silicone hydrogel contact lenses. In exchange, CooperVision will pay CIBA Vision a royalty on U.S. sales of its Biofinity contact lenses until 2014 and on sales outside of the United States until 2016. CIBA Vision also has licensed two types of patents from CooperVision related to contact lens designs. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:18:25 am into the following categories: In The News11/27/07
Cooper Cos., which is moving to Pleasanton from Lake Forest, said Wednesday that it settled a patent infringement lawsuit with rival Ciba Vision, the eye care unit of Switzerland’s Novartis AG. The settlement stems from Cooper and Novartis trading patent infringement suits in April 2006. CooperVision, Cooper’s dominant contact lens unit, said its suit against Ciba involved a pair of patents, one relating to features controlling contact lenses’ edge characteristics and another relating to design. Ciba alleged CooperVision infringed on patents relating to silicone hydrogel contact lenses. Under the settlement, CooperVision will pay a royalty to Novartis on domestic sales of its Biofinity contact lenses until 2014 and on international sales until 2016. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:16:51 am into the following categories: In The News11/20/07
7,297,860 System and method for determining genre of audio  11/20/07
7,297,000 Periodic table of the elements in three dimensional form  11/20/07
7,297,110 Systems and methods for remote monitoring of fear and distress responses  11/20/07
A U.S. appeals court judge upheld a $140 million judgment Friday against Microsoft Corp. for patent infringement against David Colvin, a Commerce Township inventor and founder of z4Technologies Inc.Judge Elaine Bucklo of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois upheld a lower court jury that ruled last year in Texas that Microsoft willfully infringed two of z4’s patents involving digital rights management in the Windows XP operating system. The jury awarded $115 million in damages, and Judge Leonard Davis added $25 million because of what he called litigation misconduct during the trial. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:11:16 am into the following categories: In The News11/20/07
Microsoft did not infringe on patents over technology that helps computers boot up faster, a Texas court ruled late last week after a seven-day trial. The suit, filed by Acceleration Software International Corp, claims that Microsoft infringed on United States patent 5933639, issued in 1999. The suit asked the court to award the patent holder $2.50 per copy of Windows XP sold in the United States, or between $600 million to $900 million. Microsoft argued that there are many ways to improve the boot speed of PCs and that Windows XP does not infringe on the technology in the patent. In addition, the jury also found that the patent is invalid because it was obvious and the technology already existed. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:10:24 am into the following categories: In The News11/20/07
"A little-known corporation from Newport Beach, California is suing Mac maker Apple Inc., alleging that a new version of the company's iChat video conferencing software infringes on patented technology through its use of custom video backdrops," Kasper Jade reports for AppleInsider. "In the 6-page complaint, filed Wednesday in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, Digital Background Corporation claims that the Apple software infringes on its 1998 patent entitled 'Real-Time Method of Digitally Altering a Video Data Stream to Remove Portions of the Original Image and Substitute Elements to Create a New Image,'" Jade reports. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:09:03 am into the following categories: In The News11/20/07
A North Texas federal court recently issued a Final Judgment in favor of a subsidiary of Dallas-based Heelys, Inc. in a lawsuit against a patent infringer selling knock-offs of patented Heelys wheeled footwear in shopping malls throughout the Dallas area. The alleged patent infringers, operating under the company name Ohayan, were ordered to cease all sales of the wheeled footwear, which were conducted at kiosks in numerous North Texas malls including Irving Mall, Valley View Center and Stonebriar Center, under the brand name “Air” and others. “We are pleased that the federal court agreed with our position and shut Ohayan down,” said Mike Staffaroni, CEO of Heelys, Inc. “We now need the mall operators to do the right thing and stop leasing kiosks to infringers.” Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:07:47 am into the following categories: In The News11/13/07
7,294,053 Prescription paper for physicians  11/13/07
7,296,016 Systems and methods for performing point-of-view searching  11/13/07
7,295,127 National security warning system integrated with building fire alarm notification system  11/13/07
Japan's Canon won a patent lawsuit against a recycled ink cartridge supplier as the country's Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed an appeal against a lower court decision in favor of the camera and office gear maker. Canon filed a suit at a Tokyo court in 2004, asking a court injunction to block imports and sales by Tokyo-based Recycle Assist of recycled Canon ink cartridges that are refilled with non-Canon ink, claiming the products infringe Canon patents. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 04:09:41 am into the following categories: In The News11/13/07
A Boston university and an affiliated start-up have sued Google for patent infringement related to search engines. The suit was filed by Boston's Northeastern University and Jarg, a company that specializes in distributed search technologies and one of whose co-founders, Kenneth Baclawski, is an associate professor at Northeastern. The suit accuses Google of using a distributed database technology developed by Baclawski. The lawsuit seeks an injunction, royalty payments and damages. The patent describes a distributed database system that breaks queries into fragments and distributes them to multiple computers in a network to get faster search results. The patent was assigned to Northeastern University, which licensed it exclusively to Jarg, according to the lawsuit, filed last Tuesday in a Texas court. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 04:08:41 am into the following categories: In The News11/13/07
OpenTV, a provider of interactive TV software and services, announced on Friday that it has settled its lawsuit against former competitor Liberate Technologies, with Liberate admitting that it infringed two OpenTV patents. Under the terms, the court permanently enjoined Liberate from infringing OpenTV's patents, while Liberate dismissed all of its counterclaims against OpenTV. San Francisco-based OpenTV originally filed suit in 2002 against Liberate, which sold its assets in 2005 to TVWorks, a joint venture between cable TV providers Comcast and Cox. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 04:07:43 am into the following categories: In The News11/13/07
A patent infringement suit by a three-person company against Apple Inc. will go forward, a U.S. District Judge has ruled. Santa Rosa-based Burst.com Inc., a company that lost $533,000 last year, contends its founder invented some of the technologies used by iPod. The company wants millions of dollars in royalties from Cupertino-based Apple, which has a campus in Elk Grove. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 04:06:10 am into the following categories: In The News11/06/07
7,292,994 System and method for establishing value and financing of intellectual property  11/06/07
7,292,683 Ad ringer  11/06/07
7,290,501 System and method for relaxing laying hen  11/06/07
Procter & Gamble and Kraft have filed fresh lawsuits in their continuing legal fight over allegations of patent infringements of plastic coffee cups. As FLEXNEWS reported last week, Kraft Foods went on the offensive when it filed a patent infringement lawsuit against P&G and its plastic Folgers coffee container on October 26 in the District Court of the Western District of Wisconsin. However, just days later, P&G filed a retaliatory suit with a counter-claim that Kraft has committed a second infringement of its coffee cup patent. The latest legal exchanges follow the one launched by P&G on August 27 in the US District Court in San Francisco alleging Kraft’s Maxwell House coffee cup has infringed the patent of its Folgers product. A case due to be heard on October 24 was, at Kraft’s request, adjourned to allow examination of the patents. Commenting on the latest legal actions a P&G spokesman told FLEXNEWS: “We were surprised that on October 26, 2007, Kraft decided to sue P&G for patent infringement after a recent product change to Folgers large-size plastic canisters. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 01:08:14 am into the following categories: In The News11/06/07
GPS Industries, Inc. (GPSI), the world's leading provider of WiFi-enabled golf management systems, intends to respond decisively and aggressively to the patent infringement lawsuit filed last week by ProLink Holdings Corp. Robert Silzer, President and CEO of GPSI, provided these initial comments about the suit: "Our Inforemer Golf Management System is built on our own state of the art technology and is protected by our own intellectual property. We are familiar with ProLink's patents, but simply have no use for that technology. We are confident that the Inforemer system does not infringe any aspect of ProLink's patents. We are advised by Uplink, and our own investigation confirms, that the Uplink systems do not encroach upon these patents. So from our point of view, the lawsuit has no merit whatsoever." Posted by GEN-ERIC at 01:06:04 am into the following categories: In The News11/06/07
Martek Biosciences Corp., a developer of health and wellness food and supplements, said Thursday it expects to receive a permanent court injunction against a Swiss drug company related to its fatty acid product. Columbia, Md.-based Martek said the U.S. District Court judge in Wilmington, Del., will enter a permanent injunction against Lonza Ltd. marketing its fatty acid product. The decision came in a patent infringement suit against Lonza Ltd., Nutrinova Inc. and Nutrinova Nutrition Specialties & Food Ingredients GmbH. Martek said the judge also ruled in favor of two of Martek's three patents for the fatty acid product, sold by Martek under the name life's DHA. Martek filed suit in 2006 after Swiss drug company Lonza began marketing the product under a different name. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 01:04:46 am into the following categories: In The News11/06/07
Multisorb Technologies Inc. said it has won a patent infringement case against Sud-Chemie Inc., a company headquartered in Louisville, Ky. Sud-Chemie had alleged infringement of the U.S. Patent No. 5793942 by Multisorb's TranSorb sorbent packs. On Sept. 7, the U.S. District Court in the Western District of Kentucky ruled Sud-Chemie's patent invalid, and dismissed Sud-Chemie's patent infringement case against Multisorb. Multisorb will continue to sell Transorb sorbent packs, which are designed specifically for use within ocean cargo containers to protect products against moisture damage during international and domestic shipping. These sorbent packs absorb moisture that builds up in containers and condenses that can cause rusting, peeling of labels and wrinkled packaging. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 01:03:18 am into the following categories: In The News
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