Wednesday, April 30, 2008

There's a prize in every box - Metro.us


There's a prize in every box
Metro.us, NY - 1 hour ago
Many attendees support a proposal to replace drug patents with a “prize” system, wherein governments offer monetary rewards for new pharmaceuticals. ...
Two-Year Process to Overhaul Health R&D System Reaches Critical ... Doctors Without Borders
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Talking Patents And Protocols With Tom Kemp - InformationWeek


Talking Patents And Protocols With Tom Kemp
InformationWeek, NY - Apr 28, 2008
... the map was simple: he wanted to simply provide anyone who might be interested with hard details about which protocols might correspond to what patents. ...

Patents: Quicktime, Shuffle dock - MacNN


Patents: Quicktime, Shuffle dock
MacNN, CA - 17 hours ago
Apple today was granted four patents by the US Patent and Trademark Office, pertaining to the dock for the new iPod shuffle, QuickTime, measuring bandwidth, ...
Apple Patents Dock, Methods Relating to Networking Palluxo! - Mac Dose of All Things Apple
Apple granted patent for QuickTime, iPod MacNN
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Beijing Komoxo Mobile Software Licenses Patents From Microsoft - Earthtimes (press release)


Beijing Komoxo Mobile Software Licenses Patents From Microsoft
Earthtimes (press release), UK - Apr 28, 2008
The licensed patents allow Komoxo to integrate Microsoft's statistical language modeling methods into its next-generation text-input engine for reduced ...

The poor stand to lose from Anti-Patent Crusades - Afrik.com

The poor stand to lose from Anti-Patent Crusades
Afrik.com, France - 6 minutes ago
By Franklin Cudjoe Top-notch policy experts from around the world have gathered to make formal policy recommendations about patents to Third World ...

Generics Market Heats Up As Patents Keep Expiring - MediaPost Publications

Generics Market Heats Up As Patents Keep Expiring
MediaPost Publications, New York - Apr 28, 2008
by Aaron Baar, Monday, Apr 28, 2008 5:01 AM ET As the patents for well-known branded prescription drugs expire, the market for generics has grown into a $36 ...

PuriCore plc Preliminary Results - PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung)


PuriCore plc Preliminary Results
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung), Austria - 3 hours ago
... Sterilox Solution -- Patents and awards -- 2 new US patents granted (now 34 patents in total with 32 more pending in global IP estate) -- New US patents ...

Cracking codes is day-to-day business in one campus building - ASU Web Devil


Cracking codes is day-to-day business in one campus building
ASU Web Devil, AZ - 1 hour ago
Michaelson, Kuchta said Michaelson had developed over 1000 patents and eventually sold them to a company that was later sold to Medtronics, ...

Monday, April 28, 2008

Seagate patents Compact Flash - 10 years late! - ZDNet


Seagate patents Compact Flash - 10 years late!
ZDNet - Apr 25, 2008
While it will take time for KSR to play out, in the short term it almost certainly reduces the value of existing patents - like Seagate’s ludicrous flash ...

iPhone rumors galore: Haptic / vibration feedback touchscreen, GPS ... - IntoMobile

iPhone rumors galore: Haptic / vibration feedback touchscreen, GPS ...
IntoMobile, CA - 2 hours ago
Recently published patents also point to Apple revamping their touchscreen UI. Three new patents have been issued to Apple that detail new input methods on ...

Universities shudder over patent ruling - The Age


Universities shudder over patent ruling
The Age, Australia - Apr 27, 2008
EMPLOYERS' claims on patents for inventions made by their staff may be under threat after a landmark Federal Court ruling in a case pitting the University ...

Sam Stovall Of S&P Equity Research Reveals The Light At The End Of ... - RTT News


Sam Stovall Of S&P Equity Research Reveals The Light At The End Of ...
RTT News, NY - 4 hours ago
TO), an intellectual property company, announced that it has granted the first license to its wireless patents portfolio to Matsushita Electric Industrial ...

Rambus Dodges An Antitrust Bullet From The FTC - Mondaq News Alerts (subscription)


Rambus Dodges An Antitrust Bullet From The FTC
Mondaq News Alerts (subscription), UK - 4 hours ago
The rules required disclosure of patents and patent applications. According to the court, Rambus had neither at the relevant time, although it arguably had ...

MOSAID signs up Matsushita as first wireless licensee - Ottawa Business Journal

MOSAID signs up Matsushita as first wireless licensee
Ottawa Business Journal,  Canada - 40 minutes ago
Matsushita, which is the parent company of the Panasonic brand, has licensed MOSAID's wireless patents for its Wi-Fi, WiMAX and CDMA-enabled notebook PCs ...

Container-lid patent offers more room on buffet table - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette


Container-lid patent offers more room on buffet table
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, IN - 2 hours ago
The preceding are lay descriptions of patents obtained from the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s public records and are provided for general ...

Sunday, April 27, 2008

LG Claims Whirlpool Refrigerators Infringe Patents (Update2) - Bloomberg


LG Claims Whirlpool Refrigerators Infringe Patents (Update2)
Bloomberg - Apr 24, 2008
LG filed a separate lawsuit April 16 in New Jersey, asking the court to invalidate Whirlpool patents or rule that LG refrigerators don't violate them. ...

LG Electronics charges Whirlpool with infringing 3 patents - Forbes


LG Electronics charges Whirlpool with infringing 3 patents
Forbes, NY - Apr 24, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO (Thomson Financial) - LG Electronics Inc.'s LG Electronics USA Inc. Thursday charged Whirlpool Corp. with infringing three patents owned by LG ...

It’s not only what you know, but who - The Times


It’s not only what you know, but who
The Times, South Africa - Apr 26, 2008
Clear evidence of intellectual gains from an inventor’s departure shows up in patents, of which we studied about 42000 issued to 154 firms in the ...

Train safety system granted patents - GulfNews

Train safety system granted patents
GulfNews, United Arab Emirates - Apr 25, 2008
By Pamela Raghunath, Correspondent Mumbai: An anti-collision system for trains developed by the Konkan Railway has secured patents from three countries ...
Konkan Railways gets patent for anti-collision device in 3 nations Economic Times
Konkan Rly gets patent for Anti-Collision Device Zee News
Konkan Railway's anti-collision device patented India PRwire (Press Release)
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Patent reform bill has friends, foes in Del. - The News Journal


Patent reform bill has friends, foes in Del.
The News Journal, DE - 5 hours ago
Both sectors are bedeviled by lawsuits from what are derisively referred to as "patent trolls," companies that gather patents to file lawsuits and collect ...

No versions for patented drugs - Business Standard


No versions for patented drugs
Business Standard, India - 16 hours ago
"The decision was taken at my level as we need to reassure the industry that patents are honoured in India. I have asked drug companies to provide the ...

Saturday, April 26, 2008

LG ELECTRONICS SUES WHIRLPOOL OVER FRIDGE PATENTS - Trading Markets (press release)


LG ELECTRONICS SUES WHIRLPOOL OVER FRIDGE PATENTS
Trading Markets (press release), CA - Apr 24, 2008
In the suit filed Thursday with a federal court in Wilmington, Delaware, LG claims that Whirlpool's 11 refrigerator models infringe upon its patents on a ...

Apple iPod Periphery Patents - AVreview.co.uk


Apple iPod Periphery Patents
AVreview.co.uk, UK - Apr 25, 2008
By Duncan Madden Apple has been caught filing some new patents for add-on units to complement its iPhone and iPod Touch. First in the patent pipeline is a ...

How Can We Measure Innovation? A Freakonomics Quorum - New York Times


How Can We Measure Innovation? A Freakonomics Quorum
New York Times, United States - Apr 25, 2008
Patents are another widely used measure. Typically, patents were thought to apply mainly to technical inventions, and in most of the world, they still do. ...
Thomson Innovation Enhances Intellectual Property Research with ... WebWire (press release)
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Patently Unfair - National Review Online


Patently Unfair
National Review Online, NY - Apr 25, 2008
States own thousands of patents and raise millions by licensing them — and that is good innovation policy. And, when someone infringes their patents, ...

Microsoft's Patents, Under The Microscope - Information Week Weblog


Microsoft's Patents, Under The Microscope
Information Week Weblog, NY - Apr 24, 2008
Microsoft's whole Catch-22 of Linux infringing on certain patents claimed by them has gone on long enough. We all know this -- but barring some major (and I ...

Apple files patents for iDVD, Scalable - MacNN


Apple files patents for iDVD, Scalable
MacNN, CA - Apr 24, 2008
This patent report mainly covers two of these patents. The first is believed to be in relation to Apple’s iDVD. The patent relates to graphical user ...

Patents aren't the problem - The Gazette (Montreal)


Patents aren't the problem
The Gazette (Montreal), Canada - Apr 21, 2008
But drug patents and drug prices aren't the main obstacle to Third World patients seeking treatment. The truth is that even if medicine were completely free ...

Friday, April 25, 2008

New guidelines on gene patents published - Science Business


New guidelines on gene patents published
Science Business, UK - Apr 24, 2008
The European Society of Human Genetics wants to ban the patenting of genes and DNA sequences but allow patents on genetic tests. This page is available to ...

Nike patent reveals info regarding this - MacNN

Nike patent reveals info regarding this
MacNN, CA - 11 hours ago
The touch screen is clearly supported by a recent series of Apple patents relating to the upcoming Nike + iPod update that also covered reward programs, ...
iPhone Patent: Mail Client MacNN
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Company awarded $66 million in lawsuit against Clear Channel - Houston Chronicle


Company awarded $66 million in lawsuit against Clear Channel
Houston Chronicle, United States - Apr 24, 2008
Dallas-based Grantley Patent Holdings Ltd. sued Clear Channel in 2006 in US District Court in Lufkin, claiming a violation of four patents. ...
Jury Finds Against Clear Channel in Viero Suit Radio World
Federal Jury Finds Clear Channel Infringed Patent Streaming Magazine
Jury Hits CC with $66M Judgement in Infringement Suit Radio Online
CNNMoney.com
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SC Tosses $200 Million Punitive Damage Award to City of Hope - Metropolitan News-Enterprise


SC Tosses $200 Million Punitive Damage Award to City of Hope
Metropolitan News-Enterprise, CA - 59 minutes ago
The contract stated that, in return for the payment of royalties to City of Hope, Genentech was to be the sole owner of patents it would obtain for City of ...
Genentech Must Pay $475 Million in Damages: Court International Business Times
Genentech Must Pay $300 Million Award, Court Rules (Update2) Bloomberg
California's Top Court Backs Wall Street Journal
San Francisco Chronicle - Legal News Line
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How Can We Measure Innovation? A Freakonomics Quorum - New York Times Blogs


How Can We Measure Innovation? A Freakonomics Quorum
New York Times Blogs, NY - 4 minutes ago
Patents are another widely used measure. Typically, patents were thought to apply mainly to technical inventions, and in most of the world, they still do. ...

Court overturns government's ruling against Rambus - The Associated Press

Court overturns government's ruling against Rambus
The Associated Press - Apr 22, 2008
The FTC ruled in 2006 that Rambus illegally obtained a monopoly in the 1990s when it secured patents for two popular types of memory chips used in personal ...
Court overturns FTC decision against Rambus Silicon Valley / San ... Bizjournals.com
US appeals court overturns FTC order versus Rambus Guardian
DC Circuit Reverses Federal Trade Commission In Important Standard ... Mondaq News Alerts (subscription)
EDN.com - ElectronicsWeekly.com
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Schumi agent patents invention - Wheels24.co.za


Schumi agent patents invention
Wheels24.co.za, South Africa - Apr 24, 2008
Willi Weber, Michael Schumacher's long time agent, is hoping to add to his huge personal fortune with a new invention. According to the German newspaper ...

Tessera files ITC complaint over patents - Forbes


Tessera files ITC complaint over patents
Forbes, NY - Apr 22, 2008
"More and more products that infringe our patents are outsourced for manufacturing abroad and importation into the US, in direct competition with our paying ...

Thursday, April 24, 2008

LG Countersues Whirlpool Over Freezer Patent - 코리아타임즈


LG Countersues Whirlpool Over Freezer Patent
코리아타임즈, South Korea - 1 hour ago
For the second time this month, LG has filed the suit in the US District Court of Delaware, regarding its three patents concerning refrigerator technology _ ...

Update: Sun confirms it's buying Montalvo - CNET News.com


Update: Sun confirms it's buying Montalvo
CNET News.com, CA - 1 hour ago
Montalvo has had trouble producing chips, but it has some interesting patents. Sun is likely interested in the patents and the engineering team. ...

Patents in China – Is There Any Real Protection? - Local Tech Wire


Patents in China – Is There Any Real Protection?
Local Tech Wire, SC - Apr 23, 2008
The United States grants three different patent types: utility patents (which cover any new and useful process, machine, article of manufacture, ...

Russia lagging behind on international patents for inventions - RIA Novosti


Russia lagging behind on international patents for inventions
RIA Novosti, Russia - Apr 23, 2008
MOSCOW, April 23 (RIA Novosti) - Russian inventors account for only 1.7% of all international patents, severely lagging behind developed countries, ...

LG accuses Whirlpool of patent infringement - Reuters


LG accuses Whirlpool of patent infringement
Reuters - 1 hour ago
N: Quote, Profile, Research) of infringing three of the South Korean company's appliance patents. In a lawsuit filed in federal court in Delaware, ...

Monday, April 21, 2008

Big Pharma defends patent power - BBC News

Big Pharma defends patent power
BBC News, UK - 5 hours ago
"Sometimes we see that Big Pharma tries to extend their own patent lifetimes with patents that are not novel," Mr Wessman told the BBC. ...

Patent trolls and patent-busters - ABC Online


Patent trolls and patent-busters
ABC Online, Australia - Apr 20, 2008
Peter Dekin, an assistant general counsel at Intel, first popularised the phrase "patent troll" to describe firms, which acquired patents only to extract ...
Mintz Levin Adds Leading Patent Litigators to Its Growing San ... Business Wire (press release)
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Apple patents virtual stores - bit-tech.net

Apple patents virtual stores
bit-tech.net, UK - 11 hours ago
How the Apple Virtual Store could look. Note the people being attacked by a giant iPod. The guys over at the Mac News Network have published an interesting ...

A lifeline for millions - Livemint


A lifeline for millions
Livemint, India - 1 hour ago
Three years after India revised its 1970 Patents Act, patent offices have granted product patents on several drugs, including medicines for HIV/AIDS, ...

65% of China's invention patents from SMEs - Xinhua


65% of China's invention patents from SMEs
Xinhua, China - Apr 18, 2008
... in promoting China's science and technology innovation, which take up over 65 percent of the country's invention patents, a senior official has said. ...

It's patently obvious: innovators lose on IP - The Age

It's patently obvious: innovators lose on IP
The Age, Australia - 23 hours ago
AUSTRALIAN innovators are failing to capitalise fully on their research by not having a proper intellectual property strategy, says a leading patents expert ...
Australians patently lacking 10:21am 21.04.08 Dynamic Business
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French Kiteboard Inventors Sell Patents as Knockoffs Multiply - Bloomberg


French Kiteboard Inventors Sell Patents as Knockoffs Multiply
Bloomberg - Apr 18, 2008
Now they are in talks to sell their patents before a new technology makes theirs obsolete. ``The patent can be questioned by counterfeiters at any moment ...

Sunday, April 20, 2008

Growing the Eco-Patent Commons to Truly Promote Green Innovation - GreenBiz


Growing the Eco-Patent Commons to Truly Promote Green Innovation
GreenBiz, CA - 6 minutes ago
IBM, Sony, Pitney-Bowes and Nokia are among the companies who have already donated patents to the initiative, doing their part to protect the environment by ...

Law targeting patent 'trolls' looks set to fail - New Scientist (subscription)


Law targeting patent 'trolls' looks set to fail
New Scientist (subscription), UK - 11 hours ago
A bill going through the US Senate that would have slashed the damages inventors receive when patents are infringed has been kicked into the long grass. ...

Q1 2008 Legislation Review now available - Fuel Cell Today (press release)


Q1 2008 Legislation Review now available
Fuel Cell Today (press release), UK - 8 minutes ago
An historical analysis into patents granted in the area of phosphoric acid fuel cell (PAFC) technology is also given in this Review. ...

'Youngest inventor' patents broom - BBC News

'Youngest inventor' patents broom
BBC News, UK - Apr 16, 2008
Mr Houghton, who by chance is a patents lawyer, was so impressed he decided to help Sam apply for a patent. He said: "It was such a simple solution that ...

Apple patents frickin' lasers on your frickin' head - Ars Technica

Apple patents frickin' lasers on your frickin' head
Ars Technica, MA - Apr 18, 2008
By Chris Foresman | Published: April 18, 2008 - 11:17AM CT Apple continues to apply for novel patents that may or may not have much practical application. ...

Apple patents ultra thin laser based head mounted display for ... - HULIQ (press release)


Apple patents ultra thin laser based head mounted display for ...
HULIQ (press release), NC - Apr 18, 2008
In order to solve this problem, Apple now patents a laser based head mounted display for its iPod and iPhone products. Head mounted display is nothing new ...

Saturday, April 19, 2008

Row unfolds over origami maps - Times Online


Row unfolds over origami maps
Times Online, UK - 1 hour ago
Law firm Allen & Overy was criticised last week by a High Court judge for its costs on a Blackberry patents case. The law firm billed the equivalent of nine ...

Dual-licensing with patents: It's bound to happen - CNET Blogs


Dual-licensing with patents: It's bound to happen
CNET Blogs, CA - Apr 18, 2008
Pierre notes it is "only a matter of time before an open source company decides patents could be used to solidify open source dual-licensing schemes. ...

Does Seagate own the patents to the flash hard drive? - CNET News.com

Does Seagate own the patents to the flash hard drive?
CNET News.com, CA - Apr 16, 2008
Seagate Technology just might have a few patents that make the rest of the storage industry squirm. Earlier this week, Seagate, the world's largest ...
Seagate Challenges SSD Vendors Gartner
Seagate sues STEC over 'patent infringements' TechRadar.com
Seagate and STEC Face Off Over SSDs IDM.net.au
BloggingStocks - TG Daily
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Memory Pharmaceuticals and Monogram Biosciences Awarded US Patents - Cell Based Assay News (subscription)


Memory Pharmaceuticals and Monogram Biosciences Awarded US Patents
Cell Based Assay News (subscription), NY - 16 hours ago
Memory Pharmaceuticals has been awarded US Patent 7358057, “QM-7 and QT-6 cells transfected with mutant cell surface expressed channel receptors and assays ...

Friday, 18 April 2008 Apple patents suggest headset display for iPods - Macworld UK


Friday, 18 April 2008 Apple patents suggest headset display for iPods
Macworld UK, UK - 21 hours ago
The patents were submitted in 2006, but, as with all Apple patents, their existence doesn't mean we're looking at a product that's going to ship. ...
Apple files new patents T3
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Friday, April 18, 2008

Brookwood Companies, Inc., a Subsidiary of Hallwood Group Inc., Is ... - CNNMoney.com


Brookwood Companies, Inc., a Subsidiary of Hallwood Group Inc., Is ...
CNNMoney.com - 18 hours ago
Nextec is seeking full damages for infringement of each of the patents-in-suit, enhancement of damages for willful infringement for each of the patents in ...

Country's "youngest inventor" patents brush - AFP

Country's "youngest inventor" patents brush
AFP - Apr 17, 2008
Perhaps no coincidence; proud father Mark is himself a patents lawyer himself and paid around £200 to protect the rights of the invention. ...
'Youngest inventor' patents broom BBC News
Five-year-old boy patents invention Hamilton Advertiser news
Broom for improvement: British boy, 5, hailed as youngest inventor AFP
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Electromagnetic Geoservices wins major round of patent dispute ... - CNNMoney.com


Electromagnetic Geoservices wins major round of patent dispute ...
CNNMoney.com - Apr 16, 2008
EMGS said the patents disputed by Schlumberger Holdings will remain valid. The proceedings were launched in the Netherlands by Schlumberger Holdings on June ...
Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA - Dutch Patent Dispute Decision ABN Newswire (press release)
UPDATE 2-EMGS jumps on M&A talk after Schlumberger patent win Reuters UK
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US Patent Office Upholds StemCells, Inc.'s Patents in ... - FOXBusiness


US Patent Office Upholds StemCells, Inc.'s Patents in ...
FOXBusiness - Apr 16, 2008
The upheld patents, US Patent Number 5851832 and US Patent Number 6497872, have been exclusively licensed by the Company and claim, respectively, ...
StemCells patents upheld in dispute with Neuralstem Conde Nast Portfolio
Neuralstem to Sponsor the National Veterans Wheelchair Games ... PR Newswire (press release)
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Legal dispute could increase cost of digital TV - The Associated Press

Legal dispute could increase cost of digital TV
The Associated Press - Apr 16, 2008
In recent years, the FTC has required companies to license their patents and set maximum royalties in several cases that involve technology standards. ...
Digital TV switch may be gamed by patent jerks CrunchGear
Dollars & Sense Modesto Bee
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Business briefs - Rochester Democrat and Chronicle


Business briefs
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, NY - Apr 17, 2008
Biophan Technologies Inc. of Pittsford said it has two new patents in its intellectual property. One involving the generation of electrical power from body ...