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Printer Friendly Version ================================================== 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
Index ================================================== 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.
Index 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. Index 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.
Index ================================================== 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.
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Plug-and-play smart data
cable The invention includes a smart, plug-and-play cable capable of
transparently translating between two different communication protocols. The
cables are "plug-and-play" such that two devices can be coupled together for
communication without the requirement that the user perform any special set-up
steps in order for it to work. To implement this plug-and-play functionality,
the smart cable of the present invention determines which communication
protocols are required at each of its ports, and selects, activates, enables, or
downloads the appropriate communication protocol drivers to enable proper
operation.
Electric shaver having orbitally moving blades An
electric shaver includes blades which while rotating around their own centers
also orbit around another axis, thus providing that the blades sweep a large
area.
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.
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