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GEN-ERIC Patent News Tuesday, October 26,
2004
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Printer Friendly Version ================================================== HEADLINES (patents issued a few hours
ago..) The Way Cool Patent of the Day goes
to International Business Machines Corporation of New York for a Method and computer program product for color coding search results
The Trainmation Patent of the Day goes to Submedia,
LLC of New York City for an Apparatus for displaying images to viewers in
motion
Index ================================================== NEWS PerkinElmer Optoelectronics
Awarded $15M Digital X-Ray Contract with Elekta http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20041022005403&newsLang=en PerkinElmer,
Inc. (NYSE:PKI), a global technology leader providing market-driven integrated
solutions for biomedical and industrial applications, today announced that the
company signed a multi-year, $15 million agreement with Elekta to supply
amorphous silicon (a-Si) digital flat panel X-Ray detectors for their portfolio
of Image Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT) products. As part of the agreement,
PerkinElmer Optoelectronics will supply new high-speed detectors to Elekta. The
new detectors will be integrated into treatment solutions including Elekta
Synergy(TM), which use high resolution patient images to guide radiation
precisely to cancerous tumors while sparing healthy tissues around them. "We are
particularly proud that PerkinElmer's unique a-Si digital flat panel technology
is providing Elekta with the highest contrast resolution and the largest field
of view available in radiation oncology today. We will continue to drive
innovation in our aSi technology so that cancer patients worldwide can benefit
from continuing advancements in IGRT oncology solutions," said John Murphy,
president of PerkinElmer Optoelectronics. Index Small Grosse Pointe group
wins big photo patent cases http://www.freep.com/news/statewire/sw106216_20041025.htm A small
company with an office over a storefront has won a series of big patent
infringement cases against major photography companies such as Canon Inc. and
Sony Corp. St. Clair Intellectual Property Consultants Inc., founded by lawyers
and with six staff members, has won cases against Canon and Sony and has settled
with six other companies. The disputes are over technology that allows digital
cameras to take pictures in more than one format, such as TIFF and JPEG files.
The technology also covers cameras that can take short video clips besides still
pictures, St. Clair lawyer Ron Schutz said. St. Clair purchased the patent for
the digital technology from a group of inventors who unsuccessfully tried to
start a camera company.
Index Federal Circuit Defines Requirements For
Declaratory Judgment Action http://www.patentlyobviousblog.com/2004/10/patents_federal.html Dioptics
produces "wear-over" sunglasses that are adapted to fit over or clip onto
eyeglasses. Capo is a wholesale marketer of sunglasses. Prior to suit, the
president of Dioptics (Henry Lane) called the president of Capo (Mark Ascik):
Lane left a voice mail message stating that if he did not hear promptly from
Ascik, he would have to "presume that you are just ducking and racing forward to
infringement;" Lane cautioned Ascik about "charging down a path here that's
going to end up into a multi-million dollar lawsuit." Ascik then phoned Lane,
and Ascik's affidavit states that Lane said that Dioptics had thirteen United
States patents and would soon have forty, and that these patents covered all of
the basic wear-over sunglass frame shapes. Lane said that Dioptics would have no
choice but to defend its patents against infringement, and that he was sure he
would win an infringement suit. After the conversations, Capo filed a
declaratory judgment complaint, asking for a preemptive noninfringement holding.
Dioptics moved for dismissal of the declaratory action, on the ground that
Dioptics could not have threatened suit because no one at Dioptics had seen
Capo's product or analyzed it for infringement. The district court dismissed the
declaratory action, finding that the dispute was not "sufficiently crystallized"
for declaratory action. On appeal, the Federal Circuit reversed: Objective
Apprehension Of Being Sued Sufficient For Declaratory Judgment Action.
Index ================================================== PATENTS OF THE DAY
6,810,402
Method and computer program
product for color coding search results
Abstract: Colors are
associated with source locators such as URLs that identify sources found by a
search, in order to enable a searcher to see at a glance how closely the search
results match keywords that convey the searcher's intended search criteria. A
browser prompts keyword entry, reads the keywords, associates colors with the
keywords to form a color code, and displays a color code map that explains the
color code to the searcher. The browser sends the keywords to a search engine.
The search engine performs a search, and sends to the browser source locators
that identify sources of interest such as web pages, along with occurrence data
indicative of how often each of the keywords appears in each of the sources. For
each source locator, the browser formulates a correlation indicator, which
includes a visual area that is colored according to the color code and the
occurrence data for occurrence of each keyword. The browser displays links to
the sources and the associated correlation indicators to the searcher.
Index
6,807,760
Apparatus for displaying images to
viewers in motion
Abstract: Apparatus
for displaying still images to viewers in motion relative to those images, such
as passengers on a subway train, includes a plurality of images mounted on a
surface, and a slitboard mounted between that surface and the viewer. As the
viewers pass by, the slitboard acts like a shutter, creating an animation
effect. In addition, there is a stretching or widening effect that enlarges the
images, allowing images to be "preshrunk," thereby allowing a large number of
images in a small space, increasing the available frame rate of the animation.
The stretching effect depends on the distance between the image surface and the
slitboard.
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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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