RETURN to News Archive ================================================== Copyright(c) 1998-2003 GEN-ERIC Channel.  All rights reserved. GEN-ERIC Patent News Tuesday, March 18, 2003 ================================================== Use Quick Links to Access any Area of Interest Headlines News Patents of the Day Access Official Gazette and Notices Patents Available for Licensing Patent Employment Opportunities Printer Friendly Version ================================================== HEADLINES   (patents issued a few hours ago..) The aixelsyD Patent of the Day goes to an Inventor from Massachusetts for a System and method for dyslexia detection by analyzing spoken and written words The Duck Hotel Patent of the Day goes to an Inventor from Arkansas for a Duck shooting resort layout and duck training method     Index ================================================== NEWS Ericsson to pay ITC $34m in patent case http://www.nj.com/newsflash/business/index.ssf? /cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?f0223_BC_Ericsson-InterDigital&&news&newsflash-financial Wireless equipment maker LM Ericsson said Monday it has settled a patent dispute with InterDigital Communications Corp., averting a potentially costly trial this spring. The settlement is considered important because it serves as a yardstick for settlements between InterDigital and other manufacturers. InterDigital, based in King of Prussia, Pa., develops technologies for the wireless communications industry.     Index NetRatings files suit against NPD http://rss.com.com/2110-1032-992902.html?type=pt&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=news NetRatings said Monday that it filed a patent infringement lawsuit against The NPD Group, alleging NPD is using methods for computer-use tracking that infringe on its patent. NetRatings, which provides Web metrics data under the name Nielsen/NetRatings, filed the complaint in the United States District Court of Delaware. NetRatings is seeking a permanent injunction and unspecified monetary damages from NPD for past infringements. The suit recalls a long-simmering rivalry between NetRatings and Media Metrix. The NPD Group is a privately held market research firm that developed the technology for the original Media Metrix measurement business, which became Jupiter Media Metrix in March 2001, after it merged with Jupiter Communications.     Index Judge in patent suit orders Pfizer to stop shipping home pregnancy test http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/071/business/ Judge_in_patent_suit_orders_Pfizer_to_stop_shipping_home_pregnancy_test+.shtml Pfizer Inc. was ordered to stop shipping its e.p.t., the best-selling home pregnancy test in the United States, while it battles a patent-infringement lawsuit by rival Inverness Medical Innovations Inc. The order by a federal judge in Newark doesn't affect boxes of e.p.t. already on store shelves, said Pfizer spokesman Bob Fauteux. The New York-based company will seek a court order to delay enforcement of the injunction and an expedited appeal, Fauteux said. The ruling might help Inverness get a bigger share of the $240 million market for home pregnancy tests. Pfizer's e.p.t test has about 29 percent of the market, while Inverness's ClearBlue Easy has 7 percent.     Index ================================================== PATENTS OF THE DAY 6,535,853 System and method for dyslexia detection by analyzing spoken and written words Background:  Dyslexia is a general term for a family of learning disabilities. Its symptoms include problems in expressive or receptive oral or written language. Derived from the Greek words "dys" (poor or inadequate) and "lexis" (words or language). Dyslexia affects reading, spelling, writing, memory and concentration, and sometimes math, music, foreign languages and self-organization. Dyslexia and other related learning disabilities affect about 15% of the population. Abstract:  A dyslexia detection system displays a test word, either alone, or within a sentence. The test subject is asked to pronounce the test word, and to write it on a handwriting input device, such as a tablet. The system analyzes the spoken words, comparing them to sound records in a library of properly pronounced phonemes which make up the test word. The system also analyzes the characters written by the subject, and detects whether any of the characters correspond to a member of a distorted character set containing distortions commonly produced by dyslexics. A summary of errors in pronunciation shows errors in pronunciation as mispronounced phonemes, and errors in writing are displayed as erroneously written characters.     Index 6,532,902 Duck shooting resort layout and duck training method Background:  It is often desired to provide a preserve within which hunters may shoot ducks, and it is also often desirable to fish in water provided in such a preserve. Prior art preserves are necessarily large and rather wasteful of land because groups of hunters must necessarily be separated by great distances so that they do not inadvertently shoot one another while shooting at the ducks. Furthermore, prior art duck hunting resorts rely on the unpredictable behavior of wild ducks, who only occasionally will venture into the hunting area when attracted by decoys and artificial duck calls. This unpredictability as to the presence of ducks can diminish the pleasure of hunting as hunters sit for hours without seeing a duck to shoot. It is therefore desirable to have a duck hunting preserve that provides for higher density of hunters on a given area of land than heretofore possible. It is further desirable that such a duck hunting preserve provide a ready supply of ducks who remain in the preserve for shooting in a natural outdoor setting, without requiring any tethering or artificial restraint to retain the ducks within the preserve. Abstract:  A duck shooting resort layout having a body of water, a peripheral embankment encircling the water, a duck hunting region within the resort, and duck hunting blinds within the hunting region from which hunters may shoot ducks. The resort includes trained ducks taught to fly only within the hunting region. Multiple embodiments, with islands, piers, or embankment fingers, are described that safely allow a high density of hunters within a given land area. A method of training ducks to fly only within the hunting region is described. A construction method for the resort layout is described that allows a terrain to be sculpted into the structure of the invention at a minimum of cost and movement of dirt. The water depth may increase toward the channel ends for harvesting fish by partial draining, and fish grading screens may be provided at the ends for harvesting fish.     Index ================================================== ACCESS OFFICIAL GAZETTE AND NOTICES Access this week's Official Gazette http://www.uspto.gov/web/patents/patog/week11/OG/classIndex.htm Excerpt from OG Notices Director Ordered Reexaminations Benefit of Prior-Filed Application Summary: This notice clarifies how benefit claims under 35 U.S.C. 119(e), 120, 121 and 365(c) must be presented in applications in order to be in compliance with the relevant statute and patent regulations, and accepted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (Office). Certificates of Correction     Index ================================================== PATENTS AVAILABLE FOR LICENSING to Learn More or to List a Patent 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. Laptop Display The invention includes a computer projector in a portable computer or PDA device. The lightweight, relatively low power display, only adds a few ounces of weight to the computer. It can project a large image display on a screen or wall. In several configurations taught by the patent, the LCD and active matrix displays, a considerable component of the cost of any computer or laptop, are eliminated. The projection device images onto the laptop cover panel, saving hundreds of dollars in manufacturing cost. Put the display cover in the projector position and you can project an image onto a large wall for group viewing. 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