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GEN-ERIC Patent News Tuesday, November 18,
2003
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Printer Friendly Version ================================================== HEADLINES (patents issued a few hours
ago..) The Dude, Where's My Car Patent of the Day
goes to Two Independent Inventors from Germany for a Method and device for finding a parked vehicle
The
Pay to Play Patent of the Day goes to BBNT Solutions LLC of
Massachusetts for Systems and methods for reducing the occurrence of
annoying voice calls
Index ================================================== NEWS Jury awards SPX $62 million
in Microsoft case http://news.com.com/2100-1014-5108297.html Diversified
manufacturer SPX said a jury awarded its Imagexpo unit $62.3 million in damages
and found that Microsoft had infringed on a patent for conferencing software.
Additional issues remain for the court to rule on that could ultimately impact
the amount of the award, and any final ruling and court award is subject to
appeal, SPX said Friday about the case, which it filed in October 2002.
Index Delco Remy files patent infringement lawsuit http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/7290588.htm Delco
Remy International has filed a lawsuit accusing three companies that make auto
parts for the aftermarket of violating its patents. The suit filed Monday in
U.S. District Court in Indianapolis alleges the companies copied the
Anderson-based manufacturer's automotive starter and alternator designs. Named
in the lawsuit were Unipoint Electric Manufacturing Ltd. of Taiwan; NSA Corp. of
Sterling, Va.; and Unit Parts Corp. of Oklahoma City. The lawsuit also seeks to
stop about 30 smaller distributors and manufacturer from selling alleged
knockoff products.
Index Biotech wins battle for junk justice
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/11/17/1069027047154.html Investors
piled into Genetic Technologies yesterday after the biotech company announced
that two US groups it was suing for patent infringement had settled out of
court. The win leaves only one outstanding lawsuit over Genetic Technologies'
claim to have patent control over methods for researching non-coded, or "junk",
DNA. The Melbourne-based Genetic Technologies has consistently warned it would
sue any company, research institution or university that infringed its patent
over the so-called junk DNA. In the past, scientists concentrated on a tiny 1.5
per cent slice of the human genome, dismissing the remaining 98.5 per cent DNA
system as useless. But since early sequences of the human genome were released
in 2000, scientists around the world realised the non-coded sections of DNA
played a role in switching particular genes on and off and so were crucial in
finding cures for gene-related diseases.
Index ================================================== PATENTS OF THE DAY
6,650,999
Method and device for finding a
parked vehicle
Abstract: The
invention discloses a device and an apparatus with the assistance of which a
driver can locate his parked vehicle of unknown location. The information
concerning the instantaneous location of the vehicle gained by a navigation
system located in the vehicle is transferred, prior to or at completion of
parking, to a mobile terminal which can be carried along by the driver when
leaving his vehicle and stored therein. When needed, the driver can recall the
information concerning the parked location from the memory of the mobile
terminal for display on a monitor in a recognizable manner. Instead of direct
storage in the mobile terminal, the information concerning the parked location
can also be stored in a remote intermediate memory to which the terminal has
access. Index
6,650,742
Systems and methods for reducing
the occurrence of annoying voice calls
Abstract: A system
penalizes callers for annoying voice calls. The system identifies a caller
associated with a call to a called party in response to invocation of a feature
activation code by the called party. The system records the occurrence of the
feature activation code invocation and notifies a billing entity of the identity
of the caller and the invocation of the feature activation code so that the
billing entity can charge the caller for the call to the called party.
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Temporary Postponement of Electronic Filing and Payment Rules for Certain
Madrid Protocol-Related Rules
Emergency Closure of the Customer Service Window On Friday, October 10, 2003
Index ================================================== PATENTS AVAILABLE FOR
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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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