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Tuesday, August 5, 2003

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HEADLINES (patents issued a few hours ago..)
The Smart Link Patent of the Day goes to Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. of Netherlands
for a Speech recognition method for activating a hyperlink of an internet page

The POKEMON Patent of the Day goes to Nintendo Co., Ltd. of Japan
for a Card game toy for use in a battle game
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NEWS
IPix drops injunction request
http://eastbay.bizjournals.com/eastbay/stories/2003/08/04/daily7.html
San Ramon-based Internet Pictures Corp., also known as iPix, said Monday it has dropped its request for a preliminary injunction against a New York-based inventor the company accuses of infringing on its digital imaging patents. In a statement, the company said it voluntarily withdrew, without prejudice, its motion for preliminary injunction against Minds-Eye-View Inc. and Ford Oxaal. The company said it withdrew the motion based on sworn statements by the defendant only eight copies of the infringing product have been sold to date.
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Aventis sues generic firms seeking to make Lovenox
http://www.forbes.com/home_europe/newswire/2003/08/05/rtr1048507.html
PARIS, Aug 5 (Reuters) - French-German drugmaker Aventis said on Tuesday it was suing two generic drug firms seeking to market cheaper copies of its top-selling anti-thrombosis drug Lovenox for patent infringement. By suing to enforce a key patent protecting the drug which expires on February 4, 2012, Aventis said in a statement that it was entitled to automatic stays prohibiting U.S. drug authorities from approving applications to market Lovenox by the generic drug firms for 30 months.
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Permlight Products Files Patent Infringement Suit Against SloanLED
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030804/lam106_1.html
Permlight Products announced today that it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against SloanLED in the United States District Court for the Central District of California. The lawsuit alleges that SloanLED's ChannelLED3 system infringes Permlight's patent, U.S. Patent No. 6,578,986, entitled "Modular Mounting Method and Arrangement for Light Emitting Diodes." The patent is related to Permlight's popular RL, SL, DL, DL2, DL3, DSL, and Twister product families. The complaint requests damages and an injunction against infringement.
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PATENTS OF THE DAY

6,604,076

Speech recognition method for activating a hyperlink of an internet page

Abstract: A speech recognition method is disclosed for activating a hyperlink of an Internet page. In particular the method comprises determining hypertexts of the hyperlinks in text information, determining corresponding first phoneme sequences of hypertexts, receiving a spoken command from a user, determining a second phoneme sequence corresponding to the spoken command, determining the hyperlink selected by the user using the first and second phoneme sequences, activating the selected hyperlink, where one quality value is determined for each hypertext when first phoneme sequences are determined and where an extra hypertext is determined when the quality value of a hypertext is below a threshold and is assigned to the hypertext of the Internet page or in lieu of the hypertext, and where a first phoneme sequence determined for the extra hypertext has a quality value that exceeds the threshold.

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6,601,851

Card game toy for use in a battle game

Abstract: A card game toy includes a master card as an other self of a player and a plurality of monster cards, and is used for a card game that a battle is played by placing own and opponent cards in a proper positions of a battle field. The master card includes a character display portion to display a character, an ability-reducing indication to indicate an ability to reduce the attack power from the opponent, and a card-hand-ability indication to indicate an ability to use a card hand. The monster card includes a character display region to display a character, a position indication indicative of whether of a forward type or backward type, a physical-power indication indicative of a physical-power of the monster, and an ability indication indicative of an ability of the monster.