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GEN-ERIC Patent News Tuesday, April 13,
2004
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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.
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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.
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Advance Notice of Change to MPEP 605.04(b), (c), and (f)
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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