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09/27/05
6,950,730 System for certified use of electrical energy  09/27/05
6,950,986 Simultaneous display of a coded message together with its translation  09/27/05
6,950,933 Method and system for management and notification of electronic certificate changes  09/27/05
Denmark's Novo Nordisk, the world's largest maker of diabetes drugs, on Thursday said it was suing Sanofi-Aventis for infringing patents related to the FlexPen insulin delivery device. Novo said it filed the lawsuit in a Delaware Federal court earlier this month. It seeks an injunction against Sanofi's OptiClik pen delivery system and accuses the French drug maker, the world's third-largest, and certain of its U.S., German and Swiss affiliates, of "willful and deliberate patent infringement." Novo's FlexPen is a widely used insulin delivery device in the United States and is used with several of the company's brands of injectable insulin. The OptiClik pen system is Sanofi's only insulin delivery device approved in the U.S. and is used with all of its U.S. insulin products. James Shehan, Novo's general counsel, said the case could go to trial in 2007. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:07:01 am into the following categories: In The News09/27/05
A ruling by Judge Ronald Guzman of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois concluded an Abbott Laboratories patent related to sevoflurane combined with 09/27/05
a federal jury rendered a verdict in favor of Acumed LLC, finding that one of its competitors, Stryker Corporation, infringed on an Acumed patent. The jury awarded damages in favor of Acumed for $458,853. It also made a finding of willfulness, which allows the Court to treble the damages and award attorneys' fees. The patent in question relates to a specialized rod that is considered cutting edge and used for the treatment of bone fractures. "This is an important win for Acumed," said Alan Kozlowski, Acumed's President. "Stryker was using its rod l to target Acumed's customers, so it was important to stop them from infringing our patent." Acumed's founder, Randall Huebner, invented the rod, which was the first rod specifically designed for treating proximal humeral bone fractures. Acumed has been selling its rod, called the Polarus, since 1994. Stryker began impermissibly selling its rod in 2004. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:04:25 am into the following categories: In The News09/20/05
6,944,921 Burial urn for a plurality of cremated remains  09/20/05
6,947,978 Method for geolocating logical network addresses  09/20/05
6,945,872 Apparatus for generating an optical illusion  09/20/05
Chemical producer Celanese Corp. on Tuesday said it won $28 million in a patent infringement lawsuit against China Petrochemical Development Corp. A Taiwanese court ruled that China Petrochemical infringed on Celanese's acetic acid patents and awarded damages for the years 1995 to 1999, Celanese said. The company added that while the decision may be appealed, it expects to prevail due to the validity of its patents. David Weidman, Celanese's president and chief executive, said the ruling "reinforces Celanese's position as the technology leader in acetic acid." Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:21:17 am into the following categories: In The News09/20/05
A developer of predictive text input technology for mobile devices sued Research In Motion (RIM) this week, claiming that RIM's BlackBerry 7100 series of devices infringes on its patents. In court filings in federal court in the Northern District of Texas, Eatoni Ergonomics claimed it owns a fundamental patent on small keyboards that look and act like full-sized keyboards. The company has asked the court to issue an injunction preventing the manufacture and sale of the devices. "The problem is that the RIM 7100 is good, good enough to infringe the patent, but not good enough to create a new standard for mobile text entry," Howard Gutowitz, Eatoni's CEO, said in a statement. "That's why we have to stop it now, and hopefully convince RIM and others to introduce new devices which implement the technology properly." Eatoni was granted a U.S. patent entitled "Touch-Typable Devices Based on Ambiguous Codes and Methods to Design Such Devices." The suit also names T-Mobile USA, which sells BlackBerry devices. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:20:22 am into the following categories: In The News09/20/05
Rubbermaid Home Products today announced it has reached a settlement of its patent infringement lawsuit brought against Plano Molding Company of Plano, Illinois. Under the terms of the settlement, Plano will discontinue selling the products which were at issue in the lawsuit and has agreed to pay Rubbermaid an undisclosed royalty for previous sales of certain Plano plastic shelving products. In a lawsuit filed earlier this year in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, Fairlawn, Ohio-based Rubbermaid accused Plano of infringing on Rubbermaid's U.S. patent relating to plastic shelving products. "We are pleased with the resolution of this matter, which is one of our many efforts currently pending or anticipated," said Dave Lumley, president of Rubbermaid Home Products. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:19:16 am into the following categories: In The News09/20/05
A federal court dismissed a patent lawsuit against Color Kinetics Inc. Thursday, deciding that the plaintiff did not own the patent in question and was only a non-exclusive licensee. The plaintiff, Super Vision International Inc. (Nasdaq: SUPVA), plans to file another suit against Boston-based Color Kinetics (Nasdaq: CLRK) rather than appeal the ruling. Orlando-based Super Vision said the decision was procedural and not based on the merits of the company's claim against Color Kinetics. Super Vision sued Boston-based Color Kinetics in March 2004 alleging that Color Kinetics infringed on a patent relating to variable color lighting. Color Kinetics develops and sells solid-state lighting systems. Super Vision claimed it had acquired the patent from High End Systems the day before filing suit against Color Kinetics. The suit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida and sought damages of $10.5 million. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:18:20 am into the following categories: In The News09/13/05
6,942,569 Drawing for winners over the internet using receipts and zipcodes  09/13/05
6,944,770 Methods and systems for generating and validating value-bearing documents  09/13/05
6,942,538 Inflatable humanoid forms  09/13/05
Symbol Technologies, Inc., The Enterprise Mobility Company(TM), today announced that the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has affirmed the Nevada District Court's favorable decision in Symbol's patent lawsuit against the Lemelson Foundation. On Friday, September 9, the Appeals Court published its decision, holding that the Lemelson Foundation's patents at issue in this case are not enforceable. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:05:53 am into the following categories: In The News09/13/05
U.S. business software maker ePlus is suing its biggest rival, Germany's SAP, claiming infringement of three of its software patents, SAP said Wednesday, confirming a German magazine report. A representative for SAP, which denies the allegations, said the case had been filed in the U.S. District Court in Richmond, Va., in April and was due to be heard next March. The SAP representative declined to comment on how much ePlus was seeking in damages, and business weekly WirtschaftsWoche said in a release ahead of publication that ePlus had also declined to comment on the size of the claim. The SAP representative said: "On June 15, 2005, SAP filed an answer and counterclaims alleging that it does not infringe the ePlus patents and that the ePlus patents are invalid." The patents concerned are for software used to source goods electronically. Previous Next Earlier this year, ePlus accepted $37 million in settlement of a patent lawsuit it had filed against fellow U.S. business software maker Ariba. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:04:24 am into the following categories: In The News09/13/05
Solomon Technologies, Inc. announced today that it has filed an action against Toyota Motor Corporation in federal district court in Tampa, Florida for infringement of Solomon's Electric Wheel(R) patent. Solomon alleges that the hybrid transmission drive in the Toyota Prius and Highlander infringes a number of claims contained in its U.S. Patent No. 5,067,932. In the lawsuit Solomon is asking for an injunction barring further infringement as well as damages for the unauthorized use of its patent by Toyota. Solomon President Peter DeVecchis said, "We commenced this lawsuit based on extensive review and research including a thorough review by our special patent counsel, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., of the basis of our claims. In determining this course of action we examined an existing Toyota Prius transmission against our patent claims." Mr. DeVecchis further stated, "While we are aware of the difficulties faced by a small company seeking to protect its patent rights against a large company like Toyota, we are determined to use every effort to realize for our shareholders the benefits from our patented technology." Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:02:49 am into the following categories: In The News09/13/05
Competitive Technologies, Inc. (AMEX: CTT) announced that it had filed a complaint against Carolina Liquid Chemistries Corporation ("Carolina Liquid") of Brea, California, alleging patent infringement of CTT's U.S. Patent Number 4,940,658 covering homocysteine assays. The complaint was filed in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado. In the complaint, CTT seeks monetary damages, punitive damages, attorneys' fees, court costs and other remuneration at the option of the court. The homocysteine patent was derived from discoveries made by CTT's clients Drs. Robert Allen and Sally Stabler from the University of Colorado and the late Dr. John Lindenbaum from Columbia University. "The filing of this complaint is part of our comprehensive and ongoing monitoring program to protect the patent rights of ourselves, our clients, and our current homocysteine licensees," said Aris D. Despo, CTT's Senior Vice President, Life Sciences. "While we believe that we already have licensed the majority of laboratories, distributors and other users of homocysteine assay tests in the Unites States, we continue our diligence in seeking those who use or sell tests without a license." Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:01:40 am into the following categories: In The News09/06/05
6,941,172 Method and device for restoring kidney function using electromagnetic stimulation  09/06/05
6,938,832 Scent strip  09/06/05
6,940,958 Forwarding telephone data via email  09/06/05
Cargill Inc.'s Decatur plant is one of 27 corn and oilseed operations affected by a settlement of a clean-air lawsuit. Brought by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency, the lawsuit charged Cargill with underestimating emissions from its operations in 13 states, including Alabama. The settlement, announced last week, requires the company to pay an estimated $130 million for pollution-control equipment. On Friday, in an unrelated lawsuit, a judge ordered Cargill to pay $3 million in attorney fees and costs for allegedly making a "blatant attempt by a giant corporation to coerce a small company with few resources to abandon its patent suit," according to U.S. District Judge David Peebles in New York. Sears Petroleum and Transport Corp. of Rome won a jury verdict of $2.5 million in March. The dispute involved the patent for a formula for thickening road salt with molasses. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:09:44 am into the following categories: In The News09/06/05
International Business Machines Corp. on Tuesday became the latest company to settle charges of infringing a patent owned by the University of Wisconsin's research arm in making computer chips. The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, which owns patents granted to UW researchers, had accused IBM in a federal lawsuit of infringing on patented technology in making and selling copper-based chips. The two sides told a federal judge last week they had a deal and finalized the out-of-court agreement on Tuesday, said foundation spokesman Andrew Cohn. "Both sides are happy with the agreement," said Cohn, who would not provide details. The patent in question covers a metal barrier that prevents conductive metals from getting into the silicon that stores data in computer chips, stopping them from overheating or malfunctioning. It was granted in 1986 to John Wiley, an engineering professor who is now the school's chancellor, and his colleague John Perepezko. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:04:45 am into the following categories: In The News09/06/05
Third Wave Technologies Inc., a maker of diagnostic tools used in DNA testing, on Thursday said a district court ruled in its favor in the company's patent infringement lawsuit against Stratagene Corp. The lawsuit, filed in September 2004, sought monetary damages and a permanent injunction preventing the sale of Stratagene's reagents under its "FullVelocity" product line. A jury in the U.S. District Court of Wisconsin will decide the damages. The two violated patents cover Third Wave's Invader product, the methods and chemistry of which are protected by some 45 patents. In a separate statement, La Jolla, Calif.-based Stratagene said it "believes that certain embodiments of its FullVelocity technology are not covered by Third Wave's patents" and can be sold in the research and diagnostic marketplaces. The company has sued Third Wave, charging that the company has violated Stratagene's five patents that cover the FullVelocity technology. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:03:36 am into the following categories: In The News09/06/05
IMPAX Laboratories, Inc. announced that Alza Corporation and McNeil-PPC, Inc. have filed a complaint against the Company in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, alleging patent infringement related to IMPAX's filing for a generic version of Concerta(r). The plaintiffs have not served IMPAX with the complaint. IMPAX has submitted its filing with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under Paragraph IV of the Hatch-Waxman Amendments, stating that it believes its generic versions of Concerta(r) tablets do not infringe the listed patents or that the listed patents are invalid or unenforceable. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:02:04 am into the following categories: In The News
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