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Tuesday, July 6, 2004

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The EarCon Patent of the Day goes to
AT&T Corp of New York City for a
System, method and apparatus for communicating via sound messages and personal sound identifiers

The Body Jewelry Patent of the Day goes to
an Independent Inventor from Florida for a
Nipple hugger jewelry system
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NEWS
Bausch & Lomb and CIBA Vision Announce Final Global Settlement of Patent Litigation
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20040702005168&newsLang=en
Bausch & Lomb (NYSE:BOL) and CIBA Vision Corporation, the eye care unit of Novartis AG (NYSE:NVS), today announced that they have reached a final settlement agreement that resolves disputes between the two companies in patent infringement lawsuits and associated patent proceedings related to breakthrough silicone hydrogel contact lens materials. Under the terms of the agreement, the companies have agreed to cross-license rights to their silicone hydrogel contact lens technologies. Bausch & Lomb will pay CIBA Vision a royalty on net U.S. sales of its PureVision(TM) brand contact lenses until 2014 and on net sales outside the U.S. until 2016. Specific terms of the agreement are confidential.
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Pfizer Prevails in Accupril Patent Suit
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040630/nyw100_1.html
Pfizer Inc said today it has prevailed in a patent infringement suit in which Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. (Teva), was seeking approval to sell a generic version of Pfizer's blood pressure medicine Accupril (quinapril hydrochloride). In a June 29 decision, Judge Dickinson R. Debevoise of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey held that Warner-Lambert's patent on a stable formulation of quinapril (U.S. 4,743,450), was valid, infringed and enforceable against Teva. The decision affirmed the court's previous findings of infringement and validity. The court also rejected Teva's allegations that Warner-Lambert had committed inequitable conduct in obtaining the patent.
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No Allegra patent infringement, court rules
http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=262791&category=BUSINESS&BCCode=&newsdate=7/2/2004
Barr Pharmaceuticals Inc. said Thursday that a U.S. District Court judge in New Jersey has ruled the company didn't infringe three patents involving Aventis SA's Allegra allergy treatment. Five other patents remain in litigation, and Aventis and Albany Molecular Research Inc., the Albany-based drug-discovery firm, are challenging two others, Barr said in a statement. Those cases probably will be ready for trial by the middle of next year, it said. Barr and four other companies are seeking to make generic versions of Allegra, Aventis' second-best-selling product. The French drugmaker and Albany Molecular, which licensed technology to Aventis, claim in their own suit that five generic-drug makers are violating patents scheduled to start expiring in 2013.
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PATENTS OF THE DAY

6,760,754

System, method and apparatus for communicating via sound messages and personal sound identifiers

Abstract: A system, method and apparatus for facilitating communication among a number of distributed clients in a distributed network is disclosed. A user, such as through a personal digital assistant device, may select one or more sound messages for transmission to one or more other users in the network. Each sound message may be preceded by a sound identifier which identifies the sending user. Users may select or create their sounds message and/or person sound identifiers. The sound messages will typically be abbreviated melodies or note strings which are associated with certain conversational messages.

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6,758,061

Nipple hugger jewelry system

Abstract: A wire is fabricated of a semi-rigid material. The wire may be bent by a user. At least three primary sections are formed. A nipple reception circle is located between the primary sections. The circle has a center. Each primary section extends radially outwardly from the center of the circle. A pair of end sections are formed. Two stem sections extend radially from the circle. An interior point is formed. An exterior point is formed. The end sections and the stem sections are oriented in a common plane prior to use. The end and stem sections are movable to an orientation with the end sections overlapped into a locking relationship when the circle encompasses the nipple of a user. The interiors of the primary sections are in holding contact adjacent to at least three spaced points around the nipple of the user.