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GEN-ERIC Patent News Tuesday, November 16,
2004
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ago..) The Why did it take over 8 years to get the
Patent of the Day goes to an Inventor from New Jersey for an Apparatus for generating sales probability
The Way
Cool Music Patent of the Day goes to Stanton Magnetics Inc. of Florida
for a Phonograph turntable with MIDI output
Index ================================================== NEWS Biosite Sued Over Patents,
Shares Drop http://www.forbes.com/work/feeds/ap/2004/11/12/ap1651487.html Medical
diagnostic test maker Biosite Inc. on Friday said that Roche Diagnostics Corp.
has filed a patent-infringement complaint against it in the United States
District Court in Indianapolis, sending the company's stock down almost 4
percent. The company said that the claims that it infringed on two patents owned
by Roche - one for a biosensor, and a second for a device which separates plasma
or serum from whole blood and analyses it - are without merit and that it plans
to vigorously contest them. Index LG to seek nullification
of Matsushita's PDP patents http://www.forbes.com/infoimaging/feeds/infoimaging/2004/11/12/infoimagingcomtex_2004_11_12_ky_0000-319957-.industrytopstories.corp.html South
Korea's LG Electronics Inc. said Friday it will ask the Japan Patent Office
later this month to nullify two plasma display panels patents of Matsushita
Electric Industrial Co. The move would be in response to the Tokyo Customs'
decision Thursday to bar LG-made PDP products from entering the Japanese market
for two years. Earlier this month, Matsushita, in a patent infringement row
related to PDP products, filed for a court injunction in Japan, seeking the halt
of sales of such products made by LG Index Polycom Announces
Settlement of Patent Lawsuit with Collaboration Properties, Inc.
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20041115005342&newsLang=en Polycom,
Inc., the world's leading provider of unified collaborative communications
solutions, today announced it has reached a settlement of the outstanding patent
infringement litigation and has entered into a patent cross-licensing agreement
with Avistar Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ:AVSR) and Collaboration Properties,
Inc. (CPI), a wholly owned subsidiary of Avistar Communications, Inc. In
addition, both companies intend to pursue other business relationships. Under
the terms of the settlement agreement, Polycom has agreed to pay Avistar a
one-time amount of $27.5 million and CPI has agreed to dismiss all claims in the
litigation with prejudice. In addition, the companies have entered into a patent
cross-license agreement whereby patent licenses have been granted by each party
to the other under the respective patent portfolios of each party and its
subsidiaries.
Index ================================================== PATENTS OF THE DAY
6,820,060
Apparatus for generating sales
probability
Abstract: A method
and apparatus for predicting analytically the probability of closing a sale. The
apparatus comprises a general purpose computer having a central processing unit
(CPU) and a memory for generating sales probabilities. An operating system and
sales probability engine are loaded from a storage medium and executed in the
memory. The sales probability engine utilizes various sales information to
determine the account control level corresponding to a particular stage of the
sales cycle. A sales probability is then derived by applying the account control
level and the current stage of the sales cycle as indices to a sales probability
look-up table.
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6,818,815
Phonograph turntable with MIDI
output
Abstract: The
apparatus is a turntable assembly which includes a rotary turntable platter, a
phonographic cartridge, and a tonearm for impinging the phonographic cartridge
against a record on the rotary turntable platter. The record includes MIDI
timing signals encoded therein. The apparatus further includes an amplifier, an
analog-to-digital converter and a signal processing means for amplifying the
resulting phonographic signal, converting the phonographic signal into digital
format and extracting the timing signal so as to generate an output MIDI timing
code for controlling the playback of an external audio signal.
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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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