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Tuesday, February 11, 2003
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HEADLINES
(patents issued a few hours ago..)
The Pay More, Wait Less
Patent of the Day goes to Keen.com, Inc. of California
for a System and method for conducting a time auction
(The economics of waiting)
The EmotiBot
Patent of the Day goes to Sony Corporation of Japan
for a Robot and control method for controlling the robot's emotions
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NEWS
Sony Asked to Pay $171.4 Million as Digital-Camera Patent Trial Begins
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Sony Corp., the world's largest video-game maker, infringed patents for digital- camera technology and should have to pay $171.4 million, a patent- licensing company's lawyer told jurors in a federal trial. Attorney Ronald Schutz said some of Sony's cameras use technology owned by St. Clair Intellectual Property Consultants Inc. that can display pictures in various formats on both International Business Machines Corp. and Apple Computer Inc. computers. Sony's lawyer denied the claim. St. Clair sued Tokyo-based Sony in August 2001 claiming the Japanese company's products infringe equipment and processes for the multiple-format images. Schutz said Sony has sold $3.01 billion worth of the cameras since 1998, and that St. Clair, which owns four patents for the technology awarded starting in 1992, is entitled to royalties.
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Amex Files Suit Against Towergate Over Exchange-Traded Funds
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The American Stock Exchange, the third largest U.S. stock market, wants a judge to declare that it owns the copyright to software and other intellectual property relating to a new type of exchange-traded fund. The investment devices are similar to index mutual funds except that their shares trade continually through the day like stocks. The American Stock Exchange dominates trading in the funds and this week won a patent suit against an Illinois company that claimed it had patented a different type of ETF.
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Furukawa Sues Corning for $52 Million, Alleging Fiber Patent Violation
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Furukawa Electric Co., the world's No. 2 maker of optical fiber, is suing a unit of its main rival Corning Inc. for alleged patent infringement. Furukawa filed the suit at the Tokyo District Court against Corning Cable Systems. Furukawa had a loss of 101.5 billion yen in the six months that ended Sept. 30 and has seen its stock slump by 92 percent from its high in September 2000 as demand for fiber-optic products failed to meet forecasts. Preserving intellectual property rights is now a main tool for generating earnings said one investor.
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PATENTS OF THE
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Abstract: A system and a method of conducting a time-auction among queuing customers is described. A bid is received from one of the queuing customers and compared with the prices being offered by the other customers waiting in line. If the bid is higher than at least one of the prices, the bidding customer is advanced in line ahead of the customer offering the lower price. The system and method provide a mechanism for customers willing to pay more to advance in the queue and to move ahead of those not willing to pay as much. At the same time, the system and method allow vendors such as service providers, for whose good or services customers are willing to wait in line, to maximize the price charged for their services at any given moment.
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Abstract: With a robot and a control method for it, information is read in from the outside, based on which a particular object is detected, and it is judged upon detecting the object whether or not the object satisfies given conditions, based on the judgment results of which a robot generates predetermined actions. Thus, a robot can be realized that acts naturally like a living thing. Consequently, its entertaining quality for human beings can be increased greatly.
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PATENTS AVAILABLE FOR LICENSING
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Implantable fuel cell
This invention makes use of an electrostrictive material
to increase the efficiency of a fuel cell as used for the
production of power within a human.
Powder conveying and dispensing method
and apparatus using traveling wave transport
This invention is a major advance in printing technology
by resolving a problem with "toner clouds".
Embedded Display
A material that looks like paper functions like a display, with excellent contrast. It can be read in ordinary light and looks just like ordinary paper. It is expected to revolutionize publishing in our lifetimes, allowing for electronic newspapers and magazines. A pending patent cover several exciting applications for this new medium, including intelligent maps, low cost paper brochures with full motion video display and interactive web pages, cereal boxes with built in games, and much more. This invention teaches how an ordinary sheet of paper, or a substrate having the appearance of paper, can contain information related to the document itself. This might take the form of voice annotation that can be played back on a host of devices.
Other Patents
ALL-TERRAIN, ALL WEATHER WHEELCHAIR
EARTHQUAKE DETECTOR
FREEZER ORGANIZER SYSTEM
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PATENT EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
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