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GEN-ERIC Patent News Tuesday, October 5,
2004
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Printer Friendly Version ================================================== HEADLINES (patents issued a few hours
ago..) The CyberTraffic Jam Patent of the Day goes
to Yahoo ! Inc. of Sunnyvale for a Systems and methods
for predicting traffic on internet sites
The Sweet Sound
Patent of the Day goes to an Independent Inventor fom Phoenix for a Method
and apparatus for producing acoustical guitar sounds using an electric guitar
Index ================================================== NEWS Kodak Asks Jury for $1
Billion in Sun-Java Patent Case http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Kodak-Asks-Jury-for-1-Billion-in-Sun-Java-Patent-Case-37077.html Sun
faces the prospect of being forced to pay more than US$1 billion in damages now
that a federal court jury has found the computer giant's popular Java languages
infringed on a patent held by Eastman Kodak. After a three-week trial, a jury
found that Sun violated a patent that Kodak acquired when it bought Wang
Laboratories in 1997. The penalty phase in the case begins later this week in
western New York, not far from Kodak's headquarters in Rochester, with Kodak
seeking a lump-sum payment of $1.06 billion. That figure represents half of
Sun's profits from computer servers and storage units loaded with Java sold
between 1998 and 2001.
Index Microsoft To Appeal Denial of Its FAT Patent
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/Microsoft-To-Appeal-Denial-of-Its-FAT-Patent-37037.html The
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has ruled against Microsoft in its attempts to
patent and license a technology that forms the basis of several of its software
programs. Though Microsoft was granted a patent for file allocation tables, or
FAT, in 1996, that patent was challenged earlier this year by the Public Patent
Foundation after Microsoft moved late in 2003 to start collecting royalties and
licensing fees for FAT. The patent office sided with the foundation, which
argued that several examples of so-called "prior art" existed at the time that
Microsoft sought to patent FAT. The decision now requires Microsoft to respond
to the patent office, which the company said it would do. Such third-party
challenges are upheld a majority of the time, however. Index Bombardier
Recreational settles lawsuit with U.S.-based Simmons http://www.cbc.ca/cp/business/041004/b100462.html Bombardier
Recreational Products Inc. has settled a three-year-old patent infringement
lawsuit brought on by Simmons Inc., a U.S.-based snowmobile ski maker. The
Quebec-based maker of recreational products such as Ski-Doos, said Monday the
two companies had resolved the patent dispute over Ski-Doo's Precision ski.
Financial terms of the settlement were not revealed. Simmons, a family-owned
company based in Providence, Utah, had begun the infringement lawsuit in 2001
over Bombardier's Precision snowmobile ski, which the company claimed had
infringed on its own patent for its Flexi-Ski product.
Index ================================================== PATENTS OF THE DAY
6,801,945
Systems and methods for predicting
traffic on internet sites
Abstract: Systems
and methods are provided for predicting visitor traffic to a network of web site
pages. The systems and methods are used, as an example, to predict the inventory
of total available online advertisements available within the network for a
forthcoming period. The visitor traffic includes page viewing, listening or
transacting on web pages within a web site, wherein the web pages are
categorized by subject, interest areas or specific user queries such as word or
phrase searches. For each page whose traffic is being predicted, the system
takes into account annual seasonality, day-of-week, holidays, special events,
short histories, user demographics, user web behavior (viewing, listening and
transacting) and parent and child web page characteristics.
Index
6,800,797
Method and apparatus for producing
acoustical guitar sounds using an electric guitar
Abstract: An
electric guitar includes a hollow acoustic body, a plurality of strings, a
fingerboard, air in the hollow acoustic body, and at least one speaker mounted
in the hollow acoustic body. A sound system operatively associated with the
strings and speaker causes sound to emanate from the speaker when the strings
are played and causes sound to vibrate and resonate the hollow body and air in
the hollow acoustic body.
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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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