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10/31/06
7,127,783 Underwater burial garden method  10/31/06
7,130,878 Systems and methods for domain name registration by proxy  10/31/06
7,130,624 System and method for destabilizing improvised explosive devices  10/31/06
The Supreme Court said Friday it would intervene in a patent dispute between giants Microsoft Corp. and AT&T Corp. over Windows programs distributed overseas. An appeals court ruled that Microsoft had infringed on an AT&T patent for a type of speech-coding technology. The outcome could be worth more than $1 billion to Microsoft if the justices find that the lower court ruling improperly extended U.S. patent protections to overseas transactions, said Dennis Crouch, a visiting law professor at Boston University. “Almost every patent infringement lawsuit against Microsoft asks for damages for U.S. sales as well as foreign export sales,” Crouch said. Microsoft has acknowledged its liability for domestic sales. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:07:59 am into the following categories: In The News10/31/06
MoSys Inc. said Thursday it will pay $2.4 million to settle all outstanding litigation with UniRAM Technology Inc. related to a trade secret misappropriation and patent infringement suit. Sunnyvale-based MoSys said the suit was filed by Santa Clara-based UniRAM in 2004. Under the settlement agreement, the companies will dismiss all outstanding claims and counterclaims with prejudice. MoSys will pay UniRAM $2.4 million for a release of claims as well as a future fully paid license for itself and all of its licensees. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:05:17 am into the following categories: In The News10/31/06
Synergetics USA Inc. made its first effort at having the courts throw out a pending patent infringement lawsuit brought by Iridex Corp. against the firm. Synergetics said Thursday that it filed its first motion for summary judgment, which is a request made by the defendant, Synergetics, to the court that asserts that the plaintiff, Iridex, has raised no genuine issue to be tried based on their failure to timely bring the claim and asks the judge to rule in favor of the defense. If the court agrees, the damages and injunctive relief sought by Iridex could be eliminated altogether or significantly reduced, according to a release. The move by Synergetics stems from a suit Iridex filed Oct. 19, 2005, against Synergetics alleging patent infringement. Iridex, of Mountain View, Calif., alleged that Synergetics infringed on its patent (U.S. Patent No. 5,085,492) for laser probe technology used in its EndoProbe products and other laser-delivery devices. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:03:21 am into the following categories: In The News10/24/06
7,127,334 System and methods for preventing the unauthorized use of aircraft  10/24/06
7,127,238 Method and apparatus for using Caller ID information in a browser of a mobile communication device  10/24/06
7,127,425 System and method for providing a loan to a taxpayer based on a pre year-end tax refund  10/24/06
IBM, which is based in New York State, said Monday it has filed two patent infringement suits against Amazon.com. The lawsuits, one of which was filed in Lufkin, Texas, and the other in Tyler, Texas, come after nearly four years of attempts by IBM to resolve its concerns with Amazon.com over infringement of IBM's patents, the big computer maker said in a news release. Dating back to September 2002, IBM said it had notified Amazon.com numerous times of the infringement, but the Internet giant has shown no willingness to have meaningful discussions. "We filed this case for a very simple reason. IBM's property is being knowingly and unfairly exploited," said Dr. John E. Kelly III, senior vice president of IBM Technology and Intellectual Property. "IBM is one of the world's leading creators of intellectual property and one of the most progressive in embracing new, highly collaborative ways of driving and managing innovation. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:19:55 am into the following categories: In The News10/24/06
LG.Philips LCD ("LPL") began opening statements yesterday for the patent infringement trial in the Central District of California against Chunghwa Picture Tubes, Ltd. ("Chunghwa") and Tatung Company ("Tatung"). Earlier this week, news agencies erroneously reported that a U.S. Judge had dismissed a lawsuit filed by LPL against Chunghwa and Tatung involving patent infringement. However, while certain other claims were dismissed, the trial in which LPL is seeking $80 million for damages is underway and expected to last until early November. LPL is asserting that Chunghwa and Tatung willfully infringed LPL's semiconductor patents. LPL's patents at issue relate to the process for manufacturing liquid crystal displays (LCDs). LPL is seeking in excess of US $80 million in damages as well as an order enjoining Chunghwa and Tatung products from entering the United States. "Chunghwa and Tatung have been found to have willfully infringed another LCD patent of LPL," said Gaspare J. Bono, partner with McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP. "In July, a jury returned a $52.4 million verdict in favor of LPL for that infringement. Based upon the jury's finding of willful infringement, we have asked the Court for enhanced damages as well as a permanent injunction." Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:18:31 am into the following categories: In The News10/24/06
Amgen Inc. can pursue a patent lawsuit that seeks to block Roche Holding from selling the anemia drug Cera in the U.S., a judge ruled Friday, agreeing to a timetable that may lead to a trial as early as May. U.S. District Judge William G. Young in Boston rejected Roche's request that the suit be thrown out because Cera isn't yet sold in the U.S. The Food and Drug Administration may decide in February whether to approve the drug, used to boost red blood cells, Amgen said. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:17:30 am into the following categories: In The News10/24/06
SGI announced today that it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against ATI Technologies Inc. in U.S. District Court -- Western District of Wisconsin. In its Complaint filed today, SGI asserts that products in ATI's line of Radeon® graphics processors infringe U.S. Patent No. 6,650,327. The Complaint seeks unspecified damages and a Court Ordered injunction against future infringement by ATI. "The Company's technology covered by the '327 patent is an important resource in achieving enhanced graphics processing demanded by today's computer systems," said Dennis McKenna, CEO of SGI. "SGI has licensed this technology to ATI's major competitors and, as I have previously been stating publicly, SGI intends to aggressively protect and enforce its IP. This is the first visible step in that process." Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:16:39 am into the following categories: In The News10/17/06
7,121,509 Alerting system for aircraft crew  10/17/06
7,121,028 Method and apparatus for converting a rearview mirror into a dedicated information display  10/17/06
7,124,129 Identifying the items most relevant to a current query based on items selected in connection with similar queries  10/17/06
Transmeta, a Santa Clara, Calif. company, has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Intel, claiming the microprocessor giant has used its architecture and power efficiency technologies in its products. The lawsuit, which was filed Oct. 11 in U.S. District Court in Delaware, claims that Intel has infringed on 10 Transmeta patents. In its complaint, Transmeta asks that Intel, which is also based in Santa Clara, stop using the technology in its microprocessors, and that Intel should pay an unspecified amount of royalties and other monetary damages to Transmeta. Transmeta charges that Intel used the technology in the Pentium III, Pentium 4, Pentium M, Core and Core 2 processors. "After endeavoring to negotiate with Intel for fair compensation for the continued use of our intellectual property, we have concluded that we must turn to the judicial system to be fairly compensated for our inventions," John O'Hara Horsley, executive vice president and general counsel at Transmeta, wrote in a statement announcing the lawsuit against Intel. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:05:08 am into the following categories: In The News10/17/06
Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc. has sued Digeo Inc.'s Moxi interactive program guide in a patent infringement case filed in federal court in the Central District of California, the company said Friday. The suit was filed after discussion over patent licenses failed between the two companies and after Kirkland, Wash.-based Digeo filed an antitrust suit against Gemstar-TV Guide. The suit says Digeo engaged in infringement of Gemstar-TV Guide's patents through the Moxi guide and that Charter Communications is also liable by deploying unlicensed Moxi guides, an on-screen programming guide. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:03:55 am into the following categories: In The News10/17/06
Freedom Wireless has resolved its alleged patent infringement issues with Virgin Mobile USA without having to go to court. The two sides have come together to forge a licensing agreement. The companies did not reveal the financial terms of the pact, but said the royalty-bearing licensing deal involved certain prepaid wireless systems and methods. "This agreement allows both companies to move ahead with our business goals without litigation," said Virgin Mobile USA CEO Dan Schulman in a prepared statement. In July, Boston Communications Group Inc. (bcgi) settled its long-standing legal battles with Freedom Wireless. The agreement between the two companies called for bcgi to pay Freedom Wireless $55 million. As with the deal reached with Virgin, the bcgi settlement also included a licensing agreement. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:02:36 am into the following categories: In The News10/17/06
Nanometrics Inc., a maker of measurement systems for computer chips, said Wednesday it filed a new patent infringement lawsuit against Israeli competitor Nova Measuring Instruments Ltd. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, is in addition to a complaint filed in March, Nanometrics said. The patents at issue in the current lawsuit relate to optical critical dimension technology, also called scatterometry. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:01:19 am into the following categories: In The News10/10/06
7,119,682 Facility and method for crowd screening and protection  10/10/06
7,120,668 Systems and methods for matching participants to a conversation  10/10/06
7,117,570 Cross-shaped urn  10/10/06
A federal jury on Thursday awarded $38.4 million to MuniAuction Inc. in a patent infringement suit against Thomson Financial and a related company, i-Deal. Jurors found that New York-based Thomson Financial and i-Deal willfully infringed a MuniAuction patent for a method of electronically trading municipal bonds, according to court documents. The case centered on software developed by Pittsburgh-based MuniAuction for auctioning municipal bonds online. The company held the first-ever online auction for the bonds in 1997, according to lawyers representing MuniAuction. Thomson Financial unveiled a similar product in 1998 that was found to have infringed MuniAuction's patent. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:19:30 am into the following categories: In The News10/10/06
EchoStar Communications Corp. finally got some good news last week. Pending its appeal, the direct-broadcast satellite provider was told by a federal court that it doesn't have to deactivate its subscribers' digital video recorders or stop selling the devices. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit agreed to continue to stay an injunction, issued in August, which ordered EchoStar to pull the plug on its subscribers' DVRs within 30 days. That permanent injunction was issued after a jury and judge awarded TiVo Inc. a total of $89.6 million in damages in its patent infringement case against EchoStar. EchoStar had secured a temporary stay of the injunction, but last week the court said that it will remain in place while the satellite company pursues an appeal of the TiVo verdict. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:18:17 am into the following categories: In The News10/10/06
NetRatings Inc. announced in a Wednesday press release the settlement of NetRatings’ patent infringement action against Coremetrics. Under the terms of the settlement, NetRatings has dismissed all pending legal claims and has licensed its patent portfolio to Coremetrics, granting worldwide rights under all of NetRatings’ patents. The financial terms of the settlement were not disclosed. “NetRatings is pleased to have reached this resolution with Coremetrics, the fifth company now licensing our patented technology,” said William Pulver, president and CEO, NetRatings. “We are delighted with the ongoing progress of our patent enforcement program, and confident in our strategy to expand our licensing efforts in the broader web analytics and online advertising sectors.” Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:17:15 am into the following categories: In The News10/10/06
South Korean chip manufacturer Pixelplus Co. Ltd. on Monday said competitor MagnaChip Semiconductor Ltd. withdrew its patent infringement claims from Seoul Central District Court. Pixelplus said the Seoul-based MagnaChip withdrew its claims regarding photo diode and sensor patents. In September, the Intellectual Property Tribunal in Korea granted Pixelplus's request to invalidate MagnaChip's patents. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:15:30 am into the following categories: In The News10/03/06
7,117,254 Method of inducing content uploads in a social network  10/03/06
7,116,763 Voice and motion activated telephone  10/03/06
7,114,450 Magazine for receiving electric shock bullets  10/03/06
C.R. Bard Inc., a maker of medical devices used in oncology and urology, on Thursday said it agreed to pay $20 million to settle a lawsuit accusing it of patent infringement. Im a regulatory filing, the Murray Hill, New Jersey-based company said the case involved allegations that it infringed patents for dialysis catheters. A catheter is a thin tube that can be inserted into the body to drain or infuse fluids. Under the settlement, C.R. Bard will acquire a paid-up license under the patents at issue, and obtain an agreement not to be sued over its existing products. It will record a $20 million third-quarter pre-tax charge for the settlement. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:12:38 am into the following categories: In The News10/03/06
The DOJ and PTO have given their solid support to Microsoft’s petition for certiorari in its battle over transnational patent infringement. This support makes grant of the petition highly likely. This case, like Eolas and Pellegrini before, questions the scope of Section 271(f) of the Patent Act. That statute allows a U.S. patentee to collect damages for foreign sales of a patented invention based on the export of one or more of its components from the U.S. Recently, the CAFC has expanded the common interpretation of the statute to include the export of software code (AT&T, Eolas) as well as to the export of elements used in a patented method (Union Carbide). In a case that is difficult to square with AT&T or Eolas, the court held that the “component” does not apply to plans or instructions. In this case, Microsoft’s software code was generated in the U.S. and then shipped abroad where copies were then generated and distributed. AT&T claims (and courts have thus far agreed) that sales of those foreign copies infringe the U.S. patent and create liability. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:11:35 am into the following categories: In The News10/03/06
A U.S. court on Monday denied a Qualcomm Inc. (QCOM.O) request for a preliminary injunction in a legal dispute with rival chip maker Broadcom Corp. (BRCM.O), Broadcom said. A U.S. district judge in San Diego ruled that Qualcomm was not entitled to the injunction to stop Broadcom's development and sale of third-generation ("3G") cellular chips, Broadcom said. Broadcom said it and Qualcomm are to agree on a set of documents to be quarantined pending the outcome of the case, whose trial is set for October 2007. It said it has not misused any Qualcomm trade secrets. The hearing at the U.S. District Court in San Diego, California relates to a complaint from Qualcomm accusing Broadcom of misuse of trade secrets. Qualcomm sells technology licenses and chips for mobile phones. The companies have traded lawsuits in recent months with cases including patent infringement claims from both sides and anti-competitiveness allegations by Broadcom against Qualcomm. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:10:19 am into the following categories: In The News10/03/06
Japan's Central Glass Co. Ltd. said on Friday that it and Abbott Laboratories Inc. of the United States have won a patent lawsuit against Baxter International Inc., related to the anaesthesia drug sevofluran. Central Glass, a major sheet glass maker that also makes drugs including sevofluran, filed a lawsuit last May with the Tokyo District Court saying the content of generic drug produced by United States-based Baxter violated its sevofluran patent. The court ruling could ban Baxter from importing and selling its drug in Japan. Central Glass official Takeo Tanaka said it uses Abbott's sales channels to market sevofluran around the world. Early this year, Baxter started selling its generic drug in Japan and the United States. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:09:00 am into the following categories: In The News
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