RETURN to News Archive ================================================== Copyright(c) 1998-2004 GEN-ERIC Channel.  All rights reserved. GEN-ERIC Patent News Tuesday, April 13, 2004 ================================================== Use Quick Links to Access any Area of Interest Headlines News Patents of the Day Access Official Gazette and Notices Patents Available for Licensing Patent Related Opportunities Printer Friendly Version ================================================== HEADLINES   (patents issued a few hours ago..) The CyberDefense Patent of the Day goes to CyberSoft, Inc. of Pennsylvania for a Hostage system and method for intercepting encryted hostile data The Hands Free Patent of the Day goes to Okamoto Industries, Inc. of Japan for a Condom     Index ================================================== NEWS Microsoft pays $440M to settle suit http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20040412-103943-3181r.htm U.S. software giant Microsoft will pay $440 million to InterTrust Technologies to settle a patent infringement suit, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday. The deal gives the software giant a license to InterTrust's numerous patents in technology for protecting music, movies and other digital content against unauthorized copying. InterTrust's patent suit against the company was filed in April 2001.     Index AMD to pay $10M in Intergraph case http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2004/04/12/daily13.html Advanced Micro Devices Inc., of Sunnyvale, says it will pay $10 million for a microprocessor patent license to Huntsville, Ala.-based Intergraph Corp., resolving all patent litigation between the two companies. The settlement provides a license to AMD and its customers for Intergraph's Clipper family of patents. AMD will make additional cash payments of 2 percent of its Computation Products Group's pretax operating profit for the next three years with an annual cap of $5 million, making the total settlement as much as $25 million.     Index Fujitsu Sues Samsung Group Over Plasma Panel Tech Patents http://www.quicken.com/investments/news_center/story/?story=NewsStory/dowJones/20040407/ON200404070210000067.var&column=P0DFP Fujitsu Ltd. said Wednesday it has filed several lawsuits against Samsung Corp. group companies over what Fujitsu says is infringement of patents on its plasma display panel technologies by the South Korean high-tech giant. Samsung SDI specializes in manufacturing cathode ray tubes, liquid crystal displays and PDP components, while Samsung Electronics produces a wide range of electronics products globally, including semiconductors and plasma televisions. Samsung Japan Corp. is a sales subsidiary for the group's PDP-related components. The lawsuits come at a time when an increasing number of Japanese firms are taking the offensive in protecting their intellectual property rights on technologies that could earn them large profits from patents, as well as from sales of the hot gadgets these technologies help produce. PDPs are the key components of plasma-display television sets, one of the rapidly growing segments of the flat-screen television market, along with liquid crystal display panel TVs.     Index ================================================== PATENTS OF THE DAY 6,721,424 Hostage system and method for intercepting encryted hostile data Abstract:  A method for intercepting data transmissions in a system which is comprised of an external network and computers within a protected local network. A proxy server located in the communication path, between the external network and the computers, is equipped with virus detection capability and includes, also, key storage means and a hostage storage facility. If the proxy server determines that an incoming transmission from the external network contains hostile data, a key is obtained from the key storage means so as to decrypt the transmission. If no such key is available, the proxy server prevents the data transmission from entering the protected network and stores the data transmission as "hostage data" within the hostage storage facility until the intended user provides the proxy server with a key capable of decrypting the hostage data transmission.     Index 6,718,983 Condom Background:  According to the prior art, condoms are fitted by breaking the seal of a package, removing the condom body and fitting it on the penis with the fingers, but as the fingers touch the penis and the condom body when it is fitted, there is a problem as to hygiene and whether the condom fits satisfactorily, and if any lubricating oil or powder is used, it adheres to the fingers and must therefore be wiped off. Further, as air enters the condom body, the air must be expelled when it is fitted, which was a nuisance. Abstract:  A condom which can be fitted onto a penis without requiring for fingers to touch the penis and a condom body when in use, and which preferably does not admit the entry of air during fitting and is free from remnant air after fitting, wherein extension portions (5) of a specified length are ensured on a fitting tape (B) rolled up along with the condom body (A), and the condom body can be stored in a package (C) without this length being increased nor decreased during a packaging process.     Index ================================================== ACCESS OFFICIAL GAZETTE AND NOTICES Access this week's Official Gazette http://www.uspto.gov/web/patents/patog/week15/OG/index2.htm Excerpt from OG Notices Patent Application Publications May Now Include Amendments Advance Notice of Change to MPEP 605.04(b), (c), and (f)     Index ================================================== PATENTS AVAILABLE FOR LICENSING to Learn More or to List a Patent 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.     Index ================================================== EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES to List a Job Patent Related Jobs from Monster Patent Related Jobs from www.IntelPropLaw.com     Index ================================================== GEN-ERIC Channel