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Printer Friendly Version ================================================== HEADLINES (patents issued a few hours
ago..) The Captain, You can't mix Matter and
Anti-Matter Patent of the Day goes to an Independent Inventor from
Germany for a System for the storage and transportation of
anti-matter
The MEMS Patent of the Day goes to an Acuson
Corp. of California for a Diagnostic medical ultrasound systems and
transducers utilizing micro-mechanical components
Index ================================================== NEWS Microsoft ordered to pay $521 million http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-5062409.html A federal court in
Chicago has ruled that Microsoft must pay $521 million to a Web technology
company and the University of California after finding that the software giant's
Internet Explorer infringed on their patents. The company, called Eolas
Technologies, originally filed suit against Microsoft in 1999, alleging that the
Redmond, Wash., giant infringed on its patents when enabling Internet Explorer
to use plug-ins and applets in the software. The company's technology was first
outlined in a patent application in the early 1990s. Martin Lueck, an attorney
with Robins Kaplan Miller & Ciresi who represented Eolas, said the jury
likely was swayed by internal documents from Microsoft. The specific patent from
Eolas was not mentioned in the documents, but Microsoft executives had described
the necessity for technology that conformed to the outlines of the patent. The
University of California will receive 25 percent of the proceeds from the
verdict, while Eolas will obtain the rest, minus legal fees and costs, Lueck
said. The university owns the patents for the technology, which it licensed to
Eolas in 1994.
Index Broadcom will pay Intel $60M to settle patent cases
http://portland.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2003/08/04/daily48.html Patent
infringement lawsuits filed by Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel Corp. and
Broadcom Corp. of Irvine, Calif., against each other have been settled, the two
companies said Friday. Also settled are complaints the two have been arguing
before the International Trade Commission. Broadcom will pay Intel $60 million
in cash in two equal installments in the third and fourth fiscal quarters of
2003. The two chipmakers have signed reciprocal releases covering all patent
claims and certain other claims. Additionally, Broadcom and Intel entered into a
separate comprehensive cross-license agreement covering patents owned or
controlled by either company. Index Blackberry maker to pay
$53.7 million for infringement http://www.out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=blackberrymakerto1060256661&area=news Research
In Motion (RIM), maker of the BlackBerry PDA, was found to be guilty of patent
infringement on Tuesday and fined $53.7 million. The company is also forbidden
to sell its products in the US, but the injunction will not take effect until
RIM’s appeal has been heard. The dispute dates back to a lawsuit filed in
November 2001 by a patent holding company, NTP Inc. NTP claimed that certain RIM
products were infringing on its patents covering a method of using radio
frequency wireless communications in e-mail systems. Last November, a jury found
in favour of NTP and awarded $23 million to the holding company, subject to an
increase if the judge found that RIM wilfully infringed NTP’s patents. The judge
did, so this week awarded aggravated damages of $53.7 million.
Index ================================================== PATENTS OF THE DAY
6,606,370
System for the storage and
transportation of anti-matter
Abstract: According
to the invention, anti-matter can be stored in a spherical shell container and
is introduced into or extracted from the latter by being loaded in an attached
piece adjoining an.opening in the container from the exterior of the sphere into
its interior, and this always taking place without touching the container wall
and attached piece, which consist of matter. In accordance with a particularly
preferred exemplary embodiment; spherical shell segments generate in the
interior of the sphere an electrostatic field which keeps electrically charged
anti-matter in a stable position in a fashion centered about the center of the
sphere of the storage system. Index
6,601,851
Diagnostic medical ultrasound
systems and transducers utilizing micro-mechanical components
Abstract: The use of
any micro-mechanical component in an ultrasound system is disclosed. In
particular, the use of micro-relays, micro-switches and inductors in the
transducer probe head, in the transducer connector, coupled with the system
transducer connector(s) or anywhere else in the system. In an ultrasound system,
micro-mechanical components such as micro-fabricated switches, relays and
inductors permit impressive size reduction, cost reduction, signal-integrity
enhancement and improved operational flexibility.
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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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