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10/25/05
6,957,946 Kaleidoscopic wind machine  10/25/05
6,959,394 Splitting knowledge of a password  10/25/05
6,957,946 Kaleidoscopic wind machine 10/25/05
6,959,303 Efficient searching techniques  10/25/05
How's 17 years for a start-up's payback time? It was a big surprise last week when Intel agreed to pay $300 million to former high-flier MicroUnity to settle patent claims. John Moussouris, chief executive of MicroUnity, founded his company in 1988 to make a new breed of communications chips. The company raised $200 million from Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and others. It recruited a raft of talent and even built its own chip factory in Sunnyvale. But the company predated the Internet's rise and never quite pulled it all together. Moussouris saved the company by cutting back to a skeleton crew, selling off the factory and licensing the chip making technology. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 01:48:25 pm into the following categories: In The News10/25/05
HP today notified Cartridge World North America that it has discovered infringements of an HP ink patent in inks sold by multiple Cartridge World franchisees. The infringements were discovered as part of ongoing worldwide testing and enforcement efforts within HP's Imaging and Printing Group in order to protect its intellectual property rights. In March 2005, the same initiative also uncovered ink patent infringements in certain InkCycle cartridges sold under the Staples brand. HP and InkCycle quickly resolved the matter after InkCycle changed its ink formulations. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 01:42:47 pm into the following categories: In The News10/25/05
Hyperion has filed a patent infringement claim against HyperRoll. Hyperion also said it remains confident that its declaratory judgment action filed against HyperRoll will additionally establish that Hyperion has not infringed any of HyperRoll's patents. Hyperion filed a declaratory judgment action in Federal District Court for the Northern District of California against HyperRoll on November 30, 2004. Hyperion also filed a request for reexamination of a HyperRoll patent with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The Patent Office accepted the request, reexamined the patent, and issued a notice of allowance of the patent's claims. According to the rules of the Patent Office, Hyperion was not permitted to participate in the proceeding. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 01:40:45 pm into the following categories: In The News10/18/05
6,957,224 Efficient retrieval of uniform resource locators  10/18/05
6,956,492 Display signs comprising a flat panel loudspeaker  10/18/05
6,956,158 Method of determining the fret positions for a fingerboard  10/18/05
A California court affirmed a jury verdict Friday ordering Toshiba Corp. and a subsidiary to pay Lexar Media Inc. $465.4 million for sharing trade secrets with another rival maker of flash memory chips used in digital cameras and consumer electronics. In March, a Santa Clara County Superior Court jury found that Japanese electronics maker Toshiba violated its fiduciary duty and stole Lexar's trade secrets. Toshiba vowed to fight the decision. "We will continue to pursue all legal avenues available to us to correct what we believe to be an erroneous jury verdict in this case, including filing post-trial motions or applicable appeals," the company said in a statement. During the appeals process, Lexar said California law allows it to start accruing interest at a rate of 10 percent on the amount of the award, or roughly $46 million a year. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 02:49:44 am into the following categories: In The News10/18/05
A jury in the U.S. District Court in Denver has awarded $51 million to Medtronic Navigation in a longstanding dispute with BrainLAB AG, of Germany, involving four patents related to image-guided surgical techniques and devices. Medtronic Navigation claimed that BrainLAB AG's VectorVision, Kolibri, Exactrac, and BrainSuite infringed claims of four patents held by Medtronic. Medtronic immediately requested an injunction, but the court declined to rule on this issue at this time. "We will always place a premium on our intellectual property and are extremely happy with the jury's decision in this case," said Pete Wehrly, Medtronic Vice President and President of Medtronic's Spinal and Navigation businesses. BrainLAB is seeking a modification of the jury’s verdict. Final judgment on the case by the District Court is still pending. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 02:48:30 am into the following categories: In The News10/18/05
Ixys Corp. said on Wednesday that a jury has ordered it to pay $6.2 million dagaes in a patent infringement claim by International Rectiffier Corp. Santa Clara-based Ixys said it will appeal the jury award in the latest trial in its long-running dispute with IRS over three patents. The power semiconductor maker was originally ordered to pay IRF more than $27 million for willfully infringing on the patents but that was vacated on appeal. A jury then decided that Ixys did not infringe on two of the disputed patents, but did infringe on a third, although not willfully. On Oct. 6, the jury awarded IRF $6.2 million. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 02:46:41 am into the following categories: In The News10/11/05
6,954,659 Fashion accessory with wireless signal alerting device  10/11/05
6,954,858 Computer virus avoidance system and mechanism  10/11/05
Sprint Nextel filed a patent-infringement lawsuit this week, seeking an injunction and unspecified damages against Vonage, Voiceglow and TheGlobe.com, all providers of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services. The suit accuses Vonage -- the largest U.S.-held independent provider of Internet-based telephony services -- and the two other companies of violating seven patents dealing with voice carried over data packets. Sprint Nextel filed the suit after year-long negotiations with the three companies fell through. The company now is seeking an injunction against its three competitors to prevent them from "further misappropriating" the technology. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:07:41 am into the following categories: In The News10/11/05
A U.S. appeals court refused on Friday to reconsider a patent infringement ruling against Research In Motion Ltd. in a case that could halt U.S. sales of its popular BlackBerry wireless e-mail device. The Canadian firm had asked that all the judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit rehear and reconsider the ruling of a three-judge panel first issued in December. The case goes back to 2002, when patent holding company NTP successfully sued RIM in a lower court. That first ruling found RIM infringed on 16 claims tied to five NTP patents. NTP won an injunction in 2003, stayed pending appeal, to halt U.S. sales of the BlackBerry and shut down its service in the United States. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:06:05 am into the following categories: In The News10/11/05
BioGenex Laboratories Inc., a private company which develops technologies for drug and life science research, said Tuesday an Arizona district court ruled in its favor in a patent infringement lawsuit against Ventana Medical Systems Inc. The ruling, known as a Markman Ruling, limits the scope of Tucson-based Ventana's patent for a research process known as automated staining. In the suit, Ventana had claimed that BioGenex's automated staining device infringes on its patent for a similar device. Ventana's tissue processors and staining instruments are used by cancer research centers and drug discovery labs. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:04:32 am into the following categories: In The News10/04/05
6,952,558 Wireless sports view display and business method of use  10/04/05
6,952,678 Method, apparatus, and manufacture for facilitating a self-organizing workforce  10/04/05
6,951,515 Game apparatus for mixed reality space, image processing method thereof, and program storage medium  10/04/05
Medtronic Navigation on Friday won a $51 million jury verdict in its seven-year patent dispute with competing medical technology company BrainLAB. The Louisville, Colo.-based company sued BrainLAB in U.S. District Court in 1998 for infringement on four patents involving image-guided surgical techniques and devices. "We will always place a premium on our intellectual property and are extremely happy with the jury's decision in this case," Pete Wehrly, Medtronic's vice president, said in a statement. The patents cover technology that allows a surgeon to operate on the brain freehanded, discern tumors from healthy tissue and utilize scanning technology and magnetic resonance imaging in the operating room. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:09:18 am into the following categories: In The News10/04/05
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) this week dealt Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) a blow that may not be a knock-out punch, but comes pretty close to hobbling its argument that Internet Explorer (IE) does not infringe on a Web browser patent because prior art makes the patent invalid. The USPTO reviewed and reaffirmed the patent owned by the University of California and licensed exclusively to Eolas Technologies. The patent, known as the 906 patent after its official patent number, 5,838,906, covers a method used to call up interactive applications, or plug-ins, within a browser. Microsoft will have to redesign IE, the most widely used Internet browser by far, if it loses the suit and cannot come to a licensing agreement with Eolas. "That decision is certainly going to make it harder for Microsoft in court," Bruce Sunstein, a patent attorney with Bromberg and Sunstein, told TechNewsWorld. "The patent office viewed the prior art and said, 'We think the patent is OK.' It will make it harder to invalidate at trial -- not impossible, but hard." Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:07:31 am into the following categories: In The News10/04/05
Metrologic Instruments, Inc. today announced that it has been served with a complaint alleging that certain of its products infringe certain patents owned by Symbol Technologies, Inc. The lawsuit has been filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. Symbol also filed a similar complaint with the International Trade Commission (ITC) naming certain of Metrologic's products that were recently found by an arbitrator not to be included under the parties' existing cross license agreement. Metrologic strongly believes there is no basis for these claims. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:06:06 am into the following categories: In The News10/04/05
Power-One Inc., a maker of power switches and converters, on Monday said it is suing power supplies manufacturer Artesyn Technologies Inc. over alleged patent infringement. In its complaint, Power-One claims Artesyn's DPL20C POL converter product violates two of Power-One's proprietary patents. The lawsuit seeks monetary damages and a permanent injunction that would prohibit Artesyn from manufacturing the converter. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:04:47 am into the following categories: In The News
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