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Tuesday, December 14, 2004

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The Disposable Pay-Per-View Patent of the Day goes to
Intel Corporation of Santa Clara for a
Method and apparatus to select content

The Brain Storm Patent of the Day goes to
Think Tanks Co., Ltd. of Japan for an
Instrument for contemplation
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NEWS
Slot maker sued over patent infringement
http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2004/12/10/slot_maker_sued_over_patent_infringement/
Reno-based International Game Technology has sued Alliance Gaming Corp., claiming several of its rival's new slots and gambling systems infringe on IGT patents. In the suit filed earlier this week in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas, the world's biggest slot maker accuses Alliance of infringing on six IGT patents covering slots and systems featuring bonus wheels and touch-screen display devices. Also named in the suit Tuesday were Alliance subsidiaries Bally Gaming and Bally Gaming International. "IGT has always vigorously defended its intellectual property," said Dave Johnson, general counsel for IGT. "Consistent with that philosophy, we have filed this case to stop defendants from misappropriating IGT's patented innovations."
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Hyperion Files Patent Infringement Action Against OutlookSoft
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20041210005359&newsLang=en
Hyperion Solutions (Nasdaq:HYSL), the global leader in Business Performance Management software, announced today that it has filed a Federal court action against OutlookSoft Corporation, charging that OutlookSoft is infringing two Hyperion patents relating to its financial consolidation, reporting and analysis applications, Hyperion Financial Management and Hyperion Enterprise. Hyperion is asking for damages for past infringement, including treble damages for willful infringement, and an injunction against further infringement. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.
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Chase Medical Files Patent Infringement Suit against CHF Technologies
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20041208005459&newsLang=en
Chase Medical, Inc., a Dallas company specializing in products for the treatment of cardiovascular disease, today announced that it had filed a patent infringement lawsuit against CHF Technologies, Inc. and Endoscopic Technologies, Inc. (also known as Estech). The lawsuit alleges that products/methods related to the "Blue Egg" left ventricular restoration products infringe, induce others to infringe, and/or contributorily infringe one or more claims of U.S. Patent No. 6,681,773 (the "'773 Patent"). The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Dallas. The '773 patent relates to products and methods for treating congestive heart failure. Chase Medical's Vice President of Research and Development, Suresh Reddy, stated: "Our company was the first to develop the technology described in our '773 patent. This patent, along with other patents/patent applications owned by Chase Medical, protect valuable TRISVR(TM) technology that is now being used by a growing number of professionals. We firmly believe that our patent rights are being infringed, which is why this suit was filed."
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PATENTS OF THE DAY

6,831,570

Method and apparatus to select content

Abstract: A remote control device is configured to select predetermined content prior to providing the remote control device to a media consumer, and provided to the media consumer such that the media consumer associates the remote control device with the predetermined content. In one embodiment, the remote control device is configured to select at least one predetermined content and has a form that identifies the predetermined content for the media consumer.

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6,830,455

Instrument for contemplation

Abstract: The tool for contemplation comprises a paper on which a main unit and a sub unit that surrounds the main unit are printed. The main unit includes a subject display cell that displays a subject and a plurality of thought results display cells that display a plurality of thought results found from the subject. Each sub unit includes a new subject display cell that displays each thought result as a new subject, and a plurality of new thought results display cells that surrounds the new subject display cell and that display a plurality of thought results found from the new subject. Thereby, the tool for contemplation enables readily seeing and utilizing a plurality of thought results found from a subject.