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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
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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
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Implantable fuel
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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
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