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GEN-ERIC Patent News Tuesday, May 25,
2004
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Printer Friendly Version ================================================== HEADLINES (patents issued a few hours
ago..) The Way Broad Claim Patent of the Day goes
to Nortel Networks Limited of California for a Method
and apparatus of presenting ticker information
The Wacked
Out Patent of the Day goes to NCR Corporation of Dayton for a
Consumer model
Index ================================================== NEWS Xerox loses single-stroke
patent claim against PalmOne http://www.itworld.com/Man/2687/040524xeroxpatent/ In a patent
infringement lawsuit that has survived various rulings and company
configurations, a U.S. District Court on Friday ruled that Xerox Corp.'s patent
for its Unistrokes single-stroke handwriting recognition software is invalid and
as a result dismissed its suit against PalmOne Inc. Xerox had contended that
Palm's handwriting recognition technology for PDAs (personal digital assistants)
violated Xerox U.S. Patent number 5,596,656, which covers Unistrokes symbols.
But for the second time, Michael Telesca, a judge for the U.S. District Court
for the Western District of New York, terminated the patent infringement
lawsuit.
Index Monsanto Wins Canola Patent Case in Canadian
Supreme Court http://newstribune.com/articles/2004/05/22/business/0522040033.txt Canada's
highest court sided Friday with Monsanto Co. in a seven-year dispute over
technology in farming, giving the Missouri-based agribusiness titan broad rights
under patent law to control its genetically engineered crops. The Supreme Court
of Canada rejected a Saskatchewan farmer's contention that he was an innocent
bystander and should not have to pay for seeds he insists had arrived on his
field by accident. The legal battle dates to 1997 when St. Louis-based Monsanto
found on Percy Schmeiser's farm a canola variety the U.S. company had engineered
to resist its powerful Roundup weedkiller. Index Station Casinos gets
judgment in Harrah's patent suit http://www.nola.com/newsflash/louisiana/index.ssf?/base/business-1/108541255160010.xml A
Las Vegas casino company said Monday it won a favorable judgment in a
three-year-old patent battle with rival gambling company Harrah's Entertainment
Inc. Harrah's filed suit against Station Casinos Inc. in July 2001, alleging
Station's Boarding Pass player rewards program violated three patents for
technology used in Harrah's Total Rewards customer-loyalty program. Harrah's
seeks actual and punitive damages and an injunction against Station. A U.S.
District Court judge in Nevada ruled two of Harrah's patents invalid "due to
indefiniteness and lack of enabling disclosure of the claimed subject matter,"
Station said.
Index ================================================== PATENTS OF THE DAY
6,742,042
Method and apparatus of presenting
ticker information
Abstract: A
communication system includes a packet-based data network that is coupled to
various network elements. The network elements include user systems and a
service provider system. Each of the user systems may send requests to the
service provider system to receive selected categories of information. In
response, the service provider system (or alternatively another information
provider) transmits the requested information to each subscribing user system,
which then presents the information as a ticker. Messaging used for
communicating the ticker information may be based on the Session Initiation
Protocol (SIP), including Subscribe and Notify messages or Info messages.
Index
6,741,973
Consumer model
Abstract: A model of
consumer behavior in a transaction environment such as customers moving around a
bank branch, is generated from an artificial life algorithm to create a number
of agents. In each agent, a genetically encoded drive, equivalent for example to
hunger, is defined so as to correspond to a transaction need such as the need
for cash. Interaction rules, such as navigation rules, are set for interaction
between the agents and a first representation of an environment, and the program
is run and the agents observed, then compared with real human behavior. The best
matched agents are selected and the program run again, the steps being repeated
until a required level of comparison with real behavior is reached. The model
can then be used with different transaction environments to study customer
behavior and to select the best branch layout or the like.
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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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