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GEN-ERIC Patent News Tuesday, May 18,
2004
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Printer Friendly Version ================================================== HEADLINES (patents issued a few hours
ago..) The Smart Address Patent of the Day goes
to Avaya Technology Corp. of New Jersey for a Unified
communications automated personal name addressing
The Hybrid
Document Patent of the Day goes to an Independent Inventor From Florida
for a Speech recognition system for interactively gathering and storing
verbal information to generate documents
Index ================================================== NEWS Gateway settles patent suit
with Intergraph http://www.computerweekly.com/articles/article.asp?liArticleID=130562&liArticleTypeID=1&liCategoryID=6&liChannelID=28&liFlavourID=1&sSearch=&nPage=1 Intergraph
has settled its Clipper patent lawsuit with Gateway. PCs sold under the Gateway
and eMachines brands now have a licence for Intergraph's Clipper memory
management technology, Intergraph said. The licence cost Gateway a one-time $10m
(£5.7m) fee spread out over the rest of this year as well as future royalty
payments of $1.25 on select PCs sold by Gateway until February 2009. Intergraph,
now a software company, used to manufacture graphics workstations and
processors. The company has sued a number of PC and processor companies alleging
that their chips infringe on a patent Intergraph holds for the cache memory
design of its Clipper processors sold in the 1980s. Index Monsanto sues
Syngenta over genetically modified corn http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/business/8660626.htm Monsanto
Co. has accused Syngenta AG of patent infringement, looking to block the rival
agribusiness giant from technology used in producing a popular genetically
modified corn. Syngenta fired back Thursday, calling the legal action groundless
and suggesting it would press ahead in using the technology. "This case is
totally without merit," said David Jones, Syngenta's business-development chief.
"Monsanto's lawsuit is a flagrant attempt to intimidate customers and restrict
choice in the market." The federal lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Delaware,
involves what St. Louis-based Monsanto called its "fundamental technique" used
in producing glyphosate-tolerant plants, namely corn. Index Maxim claims
legal victory over Qualcomm http://www.commsdesign.com/news/market_news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=20300831 Maxim
Integrated Products Inc. said Wednesday (May 12) that the U.S. District Court in
San Diego has entered partial summary judgment in favor of Maxim in the patent
infringement suit filed against it by Qualcomm Inc. "The partial summary
judgment decision confirms that manufacturers of CDMA cellular phones who have
signed a Qualcomm license agreement with the same pertinent terms as the license
agreements presented to the court do not infringe the patents asserted against
Maxim when the manufacturers incorporate Maxim products into their phones," the
company said in a statement.
Index ================================================== PATENTS OF THE DAY
6,738,462
Unified communications automated
personal name addressing
Abstract: A unified
communications automated personal name addressing system is provided. The system
creates personal address books for system subscribers automatically, without
requiring the manual entry of name and address pairs by the subscriber. The
system enables a subscriber to appropriately address a communication by
providing the name of the intended recipient. In particular, the system of the
present invention allows a subscriber to conveniently address any type of
communication that may be sent from a unified communication server, even while
interfacing with the unified communications server using a conventional voice
telephone.
Index
6,738,740
Speech recognition system for
interactively gathering and storing verbal information to generate
documents
Abstract: A voice
recognition system and method for interactively gathering information to
generate a document, form, or application. An applicant using a remote device to
establish a voice connection with the system over a communication network
provides verbal responses to a plurality of verbal questions generated by the
system. The system stores and converts the verbal responses to a textual
document, such as a form or application.
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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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