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GEN-ERIC Patent News Tuesday, November 23,
2004
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Printer Friendly Version ================================================== HEADLINES (patents issued a few hours
ago..) The Smart Dial Patent of the Day goes
to Sprint Communications Company of Kansas for an Auto-dial business card system
The You are Here
Patent of the Day goes to Intel Corporation of Santa Clara for Non-GPS
navigation
Index ================================================== NEWS Court Maintains Preliminary
Injunction Preventing the FDA from Approving any Generic Versions of Periostat
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20041122005885&newsLang=en CollaGenex
Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq:CGPI) today announced that the U.S. District Court
for the District of Columbia has maintained the preliminary injunction
preventing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration from approving any generic
versions of Periostat(R). In maintaining the preliminary injunction, Honorable
Judge Collyer ordered expedited briefing of the issue of whether or not
Periostat was correctly classified as an antibiotic. A motion by IVAX
Pharmaceuticals Inc. and CorePharma LLC to dissolve the preliminary injunction
was heard by Honorable Judge Collyer on November 18, 2004. The injunction had
originally been ordered pending final resolution of CollaGenex's challenge to
the FDA's decision to classify Periostat(R) as an antibiotic, thereby denying
CollaGenex the patent and exclusivity protection otherwise available under the
Hatch Waxman amendments to the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. CollaGenex continues
to challenge the FDA's decision. Index Gillette sues Water Pik
over dental floss patents http://www.pbn.com/contentmgr/showdetails.php/id/109883 Gillette
Co., owner of the Braun Oral- B line of electric toothbrushes, filed a lawsuit
seeking to avoid paying royalties to Water Pik Technologies Inc. for inventions
used in Gillette's new electric dental flosser. Gillette began selling the
Oral-B Hummingbird Power Flosser and Pick in March for about $7, and Gillette
spokesman Eric Kraus said ``it's been very successful.'' He declined to provide
sales figures. Water Pik, which makes products that use jets of water to clean
teeth, announced a battery-operated flosser in March selling for about the same
price. Gillette's suit said Water Pik claims to own the rights to the technology
used in both devices and sought licensing fees from Gillette. The suit asked a
court to rule Gillette doesn't owe a fee to Water Pik. ``We filed this because
Water Pik has threatened a patent- infringement suit and we strongly believe
there's no merit to Water Pik's position,'' Kraus said in an interview.
Index Court to Enter Injunction Against Acon Laboratories http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/11-22-2004/0002496036&EDATE= Inverness
Medical Innovations, Inc. (Amex: IMA), a leading manufacturer and marketer of
rapid diagnostics products for the consumer and professional markets, announced
today that the jury in its patent infringement case against Acon Laboratories in
the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts has ruled
unanimously in favor of Inverness against Acon's three principal invalidity
defenses. Inverness sued Acon last year for patent infringement based on various
patents, including U.S. Patent No. 6,485,982 (the "'982 Patent"). The Court had
earlier ruled that a number of Acon's test devices, including its pregnancy,
ovulation, Strep and H pylori tests, infringed the '982 patent. The jury's
decision upholding the validity of Claims 7 and 19 of the '982 Patent covered
three basic questions, including whether the invention had been anticipated by
certain work allegedly done by others in the early 1980s, whether the invention
was "obvious" based on the prior art that Acon considered to be its best prior
art, and whether the "best mode" requirement was satisfied by the disclosure in
the patent. The jury found in Inverness' favor, and against Acon, on all
questions.
Index ================================================== PATENTS OF THE DAY
6,823,065
Auto-dial business card system
Abstract: A business
card communication system and auto-dial business cards. The auto-dial business
cards include business information indicia and computer readable call connection
information. The computer readable call connection information is configured to
permit a card holder to automatically place a call to a call destination
designated by the card provider. The business card communication system
comprises a processing system coupled to an interface system. The processing
system is configured to process a call request from a communication device to
translate an access number provided in the call request and generate call
handling information that routes the call request to the business premise. The
interface system is configured to receive the call request from the
communication device and transmit the call handling information for the
processing system. The communication device is configured to read the computer
readable call connection information from the auto-dial business card and
automatically generate the call request for a call to the business premise.
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6,823,257
Non-GPS navigation
Abstract: Non-GPS
based navigation may be implemented by a cellular network service provider. The
service provider may have data regarding a cellular radiotelephone's location
within its coverage area. Geographic data for the cell phone's location may be
obtained from a geographic database. Accordingly, navigational assistance may be
provided to the user of the cellular radiotelephone through the interplay
between the provider, telephone and geographic database. Additionally, the
telephone may have a database storing telephone number-address pairs. Thus, when
the user of the telephone inputs a telephone number as destinational
information, the address corresponding to that phone number may be the
destination location to which the user is traveling.
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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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