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GEN-ERIC Patent News Tuesday, December 16,
2003
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Printer Friendly Version ================================================== HEADLINES (patents issued a few hours
ago..) The Smart Weapon Patent of the Day goes to
the United States Navy of Washington, DC for an Identification friend or foe system including short range UV shield
The Voodoo Doll Patent of the Day goes to Independent
Inventors from Massachusetts for Aggression-relieving stuffed doll
Index ================================================== NEWS PCTEL and Broadcom Settle
Patent Infringement Dispute http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20031216005208&newsLang=en PCTEL,
Inc., a leader in intelligent wireless solutions, announced today that it has
settled a patent infringement lawsuit with Broadcom Corporation. The settled
lawsuit pertains to "soft modems," a technology pioneered by PCTEL in the 1990s,
and other voice band modem technology. Under the agreement, Broadcom will
receive a license to all of PCTEL's modem patents, including those related to
V.92 technology, and other patent applications recently acquired from Conexant
Systems, Inc., as well as a conditional covenant not to sue under PCTEL's
remaining patents. Additionally, PCTEL will assign to Broadcom two key patents
relating to Ethernet technology. Index NICE to pay Dictaphone
$10M to settle patent litigation http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=371176&contrassID=1&subContrassID=4&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y A
$100 million lawsuit dating from 2000 was put to bed Thursday as Nice Systems
(NASDAQ:NICE) announced that it has reached a settlement with Dictaphone
Corporation. NICE will be paying Dictaphone $10 million to make the $100 million
patent infringement suit against it go away. Both companies agreed to dismiss
all claims and counterclaims in respect to the alleged infringement. NICE will
be paying $5.1 million out of pocket, and its insurers will cover the remaining
$4.9 million.
Index Embrex Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against
French Company http://www.localtechwire.com/article.cfm?u=6399 Embrex has filed
suit in the U.S. District Court of Eastern N.C. against Gainesville, GA-based
New Tech Solutions, the American arm of French company Breuil S.A. The suit
claims that an “in ovo” (in the egg) injection device designed by New Tech to
compete with Embrex's system violates two U.S. patents. In the suit, Embrex
seeks injunctive relief and monetary damages for the alleged infringements and
is demanding a jury trial. The first patent relates to the company's proprietary
method for distinguishing live eggs from infertile or "dead" eggs using an
infrared light source and a light detector. This is done by passing an egg
between a rapidly pulsing light source and light detector. Embrex’s second
patent relates to the method and apparatus for selective injection of poultry
eggs. It covers both the method of injecting specific eggs identified as
suitable for inoculation as well as the apparatus performing this function.
Index ================================================== PATENTS OF THE DAY
6,664,915
Identification friend or foe
system including short range UV shield
Abstract: An
identification friend or foe system for use by a weapon to determine whether a
target that has been selected is a friendly target comprises a signal source
attached to the target and arranged to radiate encrypted signals. A detection
system attached to the weapon includes a receiver arranged to receive the
encrypted signals when the weapon is within a predetermined range from the
target. Signal processing apparatus is connected to the receiver and arranged to
determine whether the encrypted signals identify the target as being friendly.
The central processing unit is arranged to decrypt the encrypted signal and
produce a disarm signal if the target is identified as being friendly. The
central processing unit preferably is also arranged to produce a signal that
causes the weapon to perform a collision avoidance maneuver to avoid colliding
with the target if the target is identified as being friendly.
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6,663,462
Aggression-relieving stuffed doll
Abstract: An
aggression-relieving stuffed doll includes a doll body having a torso, arms, and
legs, the doll body being formed of a soft material and filled with soft,
stuffing material. A rigid plate is situated in the torso of the doll body and
is substantially impenetrable. The invention includes a plurality of pins, each
pin having a blunt end simulative of a sports ball and a sharp end capable of
penetrating the doll body but not the inner torso plate. Therefore, a user may
stick pins into the doll to relieve aggression caused by the simulated sports
player although the pin is prevented by the inner plate from penetrating through
the back of the doll and into the user's hand.
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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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