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GEN-ERIC Patent News Tuesday, August 24,
2004
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Printer Friendly Version ================================================== HEADLINES (patents issued a few hours
ago..) The Holographic Identifier Patent of the
Day goes to Digimarc Corporation of Oregon for Watermark holograms
The Way COOL Patent of the
Day goes to The Coleman Company, Inc. of Wichita for a Mosquito
trapping apparatus utilizing cooled carbon dioxide
Index ================================================== NEWS Genesis Microchip Wins
Patent Infringement Cases Against MStar, MRT and Trumpion http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20040820005412&newsLang=en Genesis
Microchip Inc. (Nasdaq:GNSS), a world leader in the development of image
processing technologies for LCD monitors, flat-panel televisions and other
consumer display products, today announced that the U.S. International Trade
Commission (ITC) has determined that MStar Semiconductor, Inc., Media Reality
Technologies, Inc. (MRT) and Trumpion Microelectronics, Inc. all infringe
Genesis Microchip's U.S. Patent No. 5,739,867 entitled "Method and Apparatus for
Upscaling an Image in both Horizontal and Vertical Directions." The ITC also
issued an exclusion order today preventing the importation of MStar, MRT and
Trumpion's display controllers into the United States, as well as LCD monitors
and boards containing these products. For the next sixty days, infringing goods
may continue to enter the country upon the payment of a bond by the importer.
Thereafter, U.S. Customs will block imports of infringing goods.
Index Glaxo beats Teva in patent suit http://money.cnn.com/2004/08/23/news/international/glaxo_teva.reut/ GlaxoSmithKline
PLC, Europe's biggest drugmaker, said Monday a U.S. court had ruled in its favor
in patent litigation with Israel's Teva Pharmaceuticals over anti-nausea drug
Zofran. Zofran, used to counteract nausea in cancer patients undergoing
chemotherapy, had first-quarter sales of £180 million ($327 million), of which
£132 million was in the United States. Index Novell wins 12-year-long
patent infringement charge http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0819billings.html Roger Billings
is laying down his decade-long dispute with Novell for allegedly stealing his
plans for the LAN. Billings is instead turning to manufacturing hydrogen fuel
cells and assuming the mantle of a Mormon-offshoot church, the Church of Jesus
Christ in Zion. Twelve years ago in December 1991, Billings, an ex-Utah
resident, filed patent infringement charges against Novell, the owner of the
NetWare operating system, for $220 million. He claimed that Novell had usurped
his idea for connecting machines to a single file server so they could
communicate and share files. Billings argued that Novell’s NetWare had caused
$62.5 billion worth of damages to his company Billings Computers.
Index ================================================== PATENTS OF THE DAY
6,782,115
Watermark holograms
Abstract: Methods
for integrating digital watermarks into holograms, watermarked hologram
structures, and related applications. One method creates a watermark image, and
then embeds the watermark image into a holographic structure. The holographic
structure is created using computer generated holography to create a digital
representation of the holographic structure. This digital representation is
recorded on a physical substrate using optical techniques or microlithography.
As an alterative, a watermark signal is embedded in a physical holographic
structure by embedding the signal into an image that is optically merged with
the holographic structure as it is optically recorded, or by embedding the
signal into an image or physical model from which the holographic structure is
formed. Another approach the creates a halftone watermarked image, and forms the
halftone watermarked image in the hologram by creating hologram dots
corresponding to the dots in the halftone watermarked image.
Abstract: An insect
trap that utilizes a combustion chamber to produce carbon dioxide for an
attractant. Combustion gasses from the combustion chamber are cooled in a
conduit for the trap inlet. Thus, a single fan may be used for both drawing
insects into the insect trap and for cooling the combustion chamber. Combustion
gasses, after being cooled by the flow of air through the conduit connected to
the trap inlet, may be further cooled by a cooling system, such as a
thermoelectric device. As such, the insect trap of the present invention may be
used to produce carbon dioxide, via combustion, at temperatures at or below
ambient temperature.
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Disconnection of Voice Response Systems
Requests for Ex Parte Reexamination
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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