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GEN-ERIC Patent News Tuesday, May 11,
2004
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Printer Friendly Version ================================================== 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
Index ================================================== NEWS 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. Index 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. Index 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.
Index ================================================== 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.
Index
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.
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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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