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GEN-ERIC Patent News Tuesday, June 22,
2004
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Printer Friendly Version ================================================== HEADLINES (patents issued a few hours
ago..) The E-Dial Patent of the Day goes
to Agere Systems Inc. of Allentown for a Telephony
access using an email address
The Red Light Patent of the
Day goes to Nestor, Inc. of Rhode Island for a Video-file based citation
generation system for traffic light violations
Index ================================================== NEWS Judge doubles award to
Meridian http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/business/stories.nsf/0/8012E1FA06F36CB986256EBB000BA97E?OpenDocument&Headline=Judge+doubles+award+to+Meridian A
federal judge has awarded Meridian Enterprises Corp. $24.6 million in a
patent-infringement suit against Carlson Marketing Group, more than doubling the
original jury verdict. Meridian, which is based in Hazelwood, claimed that
Carlson had violated its patent on a card-based incentive system that Meridian
markets to corporate clients. Meridian and Carlson both offer card-based systems
that companies can use to reward employees for meeting sales or performance
goals. Meridian's system uses a credit card; Carlson's is built around a debit
card.
Index Key figure in BlackBerry case dies http://news.com.com/Key+figure+in+BlackBerry+case+dies/2100-1041_3-5238198.html Campana
died June 8 at the age of 57, a day after an appeal got under way in a
high-profile patent infringement case launched by Campana's company, NTP,
against RIM and its renowned BlackBerry device for sending and retrieving e-mail
wirelessly. "Tom's whole professional life was primarily concerned with offering
engineering services for people," said Don Stout, a business partner who worked
with Campana for 18 years and an attorney at Antonelli, Terry, Stout &
Kraus. "He was good at recognizing problems and was pragmatic about finding
solutions." Campana won some 50 patents in his 30-year career, but none raised
as much of a fuss as those involved in the dispute over the BlackBerry. Campana
was co-founder and president of NTP, and the co-inventor of patented technology
the company is seeking to protect. Index Inamed Corporation
Reaches Settlement of Patent Litigation with Ethicon Endo-Surgery
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20040621005445&newsLang=en Inamed
Corporation (Nasdaq:IMDC), a global healthcare company, today announced that the
Company has resolved its patent infringement lawsuit with Ethicon Endo-Surgery,
Inc. ("Ethicon") regarding various patents related to gastric banding, which
Ethicon purchased from Dr. Lubomyr I. Kuzmak. Under the terms of the settlement
agreement executed effective June 21, 2004, Inamed will pay Ethicon $17,250,000
by June 26, 2004, and, pursuant to a license arrangement included in the
settlement agreement, will pay royalties to Ethicon on future United States
sales of the LAP-BAND(R) System, initially at 7.5%.
Index ================================================== PATENTS OF THE DAY
6,754,317
Telephony access using an email
address
Abstract: A
method and apparatus for placing a telephone call is provided in which an email
address is used to identify an intended recipient of the call and initiate a
telephone connection. An email address is input and transmitted to an email
address receiver. A telephone number is determined by a central communications
provider via accessing a database or series of databases of telephone numbers
associated with the email address. The telephone number thus determined is
dialed to connect the user with the intended recipient.
Index
6,754,663
Video-file based citation
generation system for traffic light violations
Abstract: A system
for generating a traffic violation citation, which operates using at least one
image data file including digitized video data. The image data file includes
multiple images of an intersection during a red light violation. The image data
file is, for example, derived from the output of one or more video cameras
positioned to record respective views of an intersection being monitored for red
light violations. The disclosed system provides a user with an interface
including at least one image display window. The image display window is used to
display portions of the image data file. Where the image data file includes
multiple video clips, such clips may be displayed simultaneously in respective
ones of multiple display windows. The system further includes a selection
interface that permits a user to select at least one image from the image data
file, for example a current image being displayed in an image display window.
The system generates a citation associated with the traffic violation, including
a copy of the selected image.
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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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