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GEN-ERIC Patent News Tuesday, October 19,
2004
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Printer Friendly Version ================================================== HEADLINES (patents issued a few hours
ago..) The Caller History Patent of the Day goes
to BellSouth Intellectual Property Corporation of Delaware for a System, method and apparatus for court-ordered surveillance of call
records
The Aural Pleasure Patent of the Day goes to
Two Inventors from California for a Method of shared erotic experience
and facilities for same
Index ================================================== NEWS General Patent Files Patent
Infringement Lawsuit Against Bausch & Lomb Surgical for Scieran Technologies
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041018/nym181_1.html General Patent
Corporation of Suffern, NY, has announced today that it has filed a patent
infringement lawsuit, on behalf of Scieran Technologies, Inc. of San Juan
Capistrano, CA (Scieran), against Bausch & Lomb Surgical, Inc. of San Dimas,
CA (Bausch & Lomb). General Patent Corporation International (GPCI) of
Suffern, New York, a leading contingency patent enforcement firm, is the
exclusive licensing agent for Scieran and is representing the company in the
licensing and enforcement of its patent portfolio. The suit was filed in the
U.S. District Court of Delaware. Scieran is represented by the prominent IP
litigation boutique Levin and O'Connor. GPCI retained Levin & O'Connor on
behalf of Scieran after licensing negotiations with Bausch & Lomb reached a
dead end. The complaint alleges that Bausch & Lomb Surgical Inc, a unit of
Bausch & Lomb, Inc., manufactured, used, sold and/or offered for sale a
disposable high-speed vitrectomy cutter, without the rights or license from
Scieran, in infringement of Scieran's US Patent Nos. 6,629,986 and 6,258,111.
Scieran seeks unspecified compensatory damages and a permanent injunction
against Bausch & Lomb. Index PalmSource settles Digeo
patent suit http://news.zdnet.com/2110-3513_22-5411911.html PalmSource, the
developer of the Palm operating system for portable devices, announced on Friday
that it has settled a patent infringement lawsuit brought against it by Digeo
Interactive, a subsidiary of Digeo. As part of the settlement, PalmSource has
become a licensee of technology covered by Digeo's 5,734,823 patent and related
patents, and Digeo has agreed to dismiss all legal claims. The two companies
also agreed that for a period of five years, neither company will assert their
patents in each other's business segments. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Index Digene settles patent lawsuit for $30.5 million http://baltimore.bizjournals.com/baltimore/stories/2004/10/11/daily31.html Gaithersburg-based
Digene, which markets a DNA-based test for cervical cancer, has settled a
patent-infringement suit against it by Enzo Biochem for $16 million, plus
guaranteed royalty payments in future years. Under the agreement, Digene has
paid Farmingdale, N.Y.-based Enzo Biochem $16 million -- $2 million of which
will go toward royalty payments. It also agrees to pay royalties of at least
$2.5 million in the first year and at least $3.5 million in each of the next
four years. Digene says its obligation to pay royalties to Enzo will expire no
later than 2018. It will take a $14 million charge in its fiscal 2005 first
quarter as a result of the settlement.
Index ================================================== PATENTS OF THE DAY
6,807,265
System, method and apparatus for
court-ordered surveillance of call records
Abstract: A system,
method and apparatus is disclosed for communicating one or more
telecommunication call records requested through a court order to a
predetermined account in response to a court-ordered request. The system
includes a telecommunication switch circuit; a computing system in communication
with the switch circuit, the computing system including one or more computers
having one or more processors for executing logic instructions and a memory for
storing the instructions and a storage device in communication with the
computing system; and one or more sets of logic instructions operative with the
one or more processors to cause the one or more processor to: at predetermined
scheduled intervals, identify one or more call records in a call records
database in accordance with the court-ordered request; retrieve the identified
one or more call records from the database; and transmit the one or more call
records to the predetermined account. The method includes, at predetermined
scheduled intervals, identifying one or more call records in a call records
database in accordance with the court-ordered request; retrieving the identified
one or more call records from the database; and transmitting the one or more
call records to the predetermined account. The apparatus includes a computing
system including one or more computers having one or more processors for
executing logic instructions; a memory for storing the instructions; and a
storage device in communication with the computing system.
Index
6,805,663
Method of shared erotic experience
and facilities for same
Abstract: A method
of sharing erotic experiences includes providing a building with a number of
compartments, entertainment viewable from inside the compartments and surround
sound music audible throughout the building, participants entering the building
and go to the compartments, starting the entertainment at a proscribed time, and
turning on the power from a central control booth at a proscribed time to a
stimulation device for sexual pleasure found in each of the compartments. The
facilities are such that sounds from the participants are transferred between
the compartments, such that couples or individuals in one compartment can hear
others in the building also experiencing intense sexual pleasure. The individual
compartments may further contain a whirlpool tub with jets starting at a
proscribed time. Importantly, security is provided to maintain order in the
building, and regular cleaning and sanitizing of the compartments and
stimulation device is provided.
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Requests for Inter Partes 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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