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RETURN to News Archive ================================================== Copyright(c) 1998-2004 GEN-ERIC Channel. All rights reserved. GEN-ERIC Patent News Tuesday, May 4, 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 WAY BROAD PATENT CLAIM Patent of the Day goes to Context Connect, Inc. of Massachusetts for a System and method for context association The Pet DNA Bank Patent of the Day goes to Hemopet of Santa Monica for an Animal genetic and health profile database management Index ================================================== NEWS Google faces legal challenge on ad practices http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=businessNews&storyID=502515§ion=finance Google, the world's leading Web search engine, has disclosed that it faces legal challenges over its practice of selling advertising key words, which contributed virtually all of its revenue in 2003, as the company readies an initial public offering of its shares. In a financial disclosure filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday as a prelude to its widely anticipated IPO, Google said that it had been sued in 2002 by Overture Services, which pioneered paid-search advertising and is now owned by Yahoo, which claims patent infringement related to advertisement placement processes. Google said it believed the lawsuit was without merit but cautioned that a loss in court could significantly limit its ability to use a program called "AdWords". Index Leading Electronics Companies Sue SAGEM S.A. for MPEG-2 Patent Infringement http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20040503005865&newsLang=en MPEG LA today announced that several leading electronics companies have filed suit in Dusseldorf, Germany, against Sagem Societe d'Applications Generales d'Electricite et de Mecanique S.A. ("SAGEM") for infringing eleven patents that are essential to the MPEG-2 digital video compression standard, which is used worldwide in digital television broadcasting and DVD. Included among the plaintiffs are Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Sony Corporation, Thomson Licensing S.A., and Victor Company of Japan, Ltd. (JVC). According to the complaint, SAGEM manufactures and markets set-top boxes that use patent-protected MPEG-2 methods and devices without having entered into licenses with the individual patent holders or a portfolio license that includes these patents offered by MPEG LA. In its advertising and promotion, SAGEM touts the benefit of its products for their compatibility with the MPEG-2 standard. Index ScanSoft files second infringement suit on voice-dialing patent http://www.masshightech.com/displayarticledetail.asp?Art_ID=65557 Peabody’s ScanSoft Inc. has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Israeli company ART Advanced Recognition Technologies Inc. in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. In its complaint, ScanSoft alleges that ART Advanced Recognition Technologies infringes a ScanSoft patent that covers voice-activated dialing for mobile telephones. In the claim, ScanSoft seeks unspecified monetary damages for infringement and injunctive relief to prevent ART from continuing to infringe U.S. Patent No. 6,501,966 “Speech Recognition System for Electronic Switches in a Non-Wireline Communications Network.” ScanSoft filed a similar lawsuit against Voice Signal Technologies in February 2004. Index ================================================== PATENTS OF THE DAY
First Claim: A method for providing information or access to a subscriber comprising the steps: associating a subscriber or data with at least one predetermined context; locating the at least one context; and providing information or access to the subscriber or data when the at least one context is located, wherein a service provider of the subscriber or data provides the information or access to the subscriber or data.  Index
 Index ================================================== ACCESS OFFICIAL GAZETTE AND NOTICES Access this week's Official Gazette http://www.uspto.gov/web/patents/patog/week18/OG/index2.htm Excerpt from OG Notices 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 |