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Tuesday, May 11, 2004

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HEADLINES (patents issued a few hours ago..)
The Mobile Gaming Patent of the Day goes to
Motorola, Inc. of Illinois for a
Method for providing entertainment to portable device based upon predetermined parameters

The Matchmaker Patent of the Day goes to
Eharmony.com of Pasadena for a
Method and system for identifying people who are likely to have a successful relationship
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Gateway files patent suit against H-P
http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2004/05/10/gateway_files_patent_suit_against_h_p/
Gateway Inc. said Monday that it filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Hewlett-Packard Co., alleging that the computer hardware and software company violated five of its patents. The salvo comes six weeks after HP filed a similar lawsuit against Poway-based Gateway, alleging that its rival violated six patents on technologies such as laptop hinges, keyboards that require passwords and the cursor that points to icons on a computer's video display. Last week, HP, based in Palo Alto, asked the International Trade Commission to investigate whether Gateway had violated seven patents.
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Rambus sues four memory-chip makers
http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/business/technology/8601904.htm
Ensuring that it will be fighting in the courts for years to come, Rambus filed an antitrust lawsuit Wednesday against four major memory-chip manufacturers. Rambus, a chip-design company based in Mountain View, accused the four companies -- Micron Technology, Hynix, Infineon Technologies and Siemens -- of conspiring to block the adoption of Rambus' memory-chip technology. The suit was filed in Superior Court in San Francisco and seeks more than $1 billion in damages. The lawsuit isn't entirely unexpected because it draws upon a wealth of evidence that Rambus presented in its own defense during the past year in a case in which the Federal Trade Commission accused it of violating antitrust laws. In February, an FTC administrative law judge dismissed the antitrust case against Rambus, citing evidence of collusion among the memory-chip makers. The FTC is appealing that decision. ''The evidence we uncovered in the FTC case is way too compelling,'' said John Danforth, general counsel at Los Altos-based Rambus, which since 1990 has designed technology to speed the flow of data within electronic products, ranging from memory chips to video game consoles. ``We have a fiduciary duty to do something about it.
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Repligen, MIT sue ImClone over patent infringement
http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/business/technology/8597269.htm
Repligen Corp. and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology filed a patent infringement lawsuit against ImClone Systems Inc. on Wednesday in U.S. District in Boston. The complaint alleges that ImClone's manufacturing process for its cancer drug Erbitux infringes on a patent that was developed at MIT and licensed to Repligen. The patent allows cells to produce high levels of proteins, a Repligen spokeswoman said. MIT and Repligen are seeking unspecified damages. Erbitux was approved earlier this year.
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PATENTS OF THE DAY

6,735,435

Method for providing entertainment to portable device based upon predetermined parameters

Abstract: A unique method for providing entertainment to a portable device, such as a wireless communication device communicating with a host vehicle, is disclosed. The method includes the steps of providing a game to a user of the wireless communication device; receiving game parameters to be used by the user of the wireless communication device; operating the game based upon data associated with the wireless communication device and/or the host vehicle.

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6,735,568

Method and system for identifying people who are likely to have a successful relationship

Abstract: The functions and operations of a matching service are disclosed. This includes approximating the satisfaction that a user of the matching service has in the relationships that the user forms with others and identifying candidates for a relationship with the user based on the approximated satisfaction. This also includes approximating the satisfaction that the user will have in a relationship with a particular candidate. The matching service also identifies two parties for a relationship. The matching service makes available a plurality of communication levels at which the parties can communicate. Each communication level allows the parties to exchange information in a different format. The parties are permitted to exchange information at one of the communication levels.