RETURN to News Archive ================================================== Copyright(c) 1998-2004 GEN-ERIC Channel.  All rights reserved. GEN-ERIC Patent News Tuesday, February 17, 2004 ================================================== Use Quick Links to Access any Area of Interest Headlines News Patents of the Day Access Official Gazette and Notices Patents Available for Licensing Patent Related Opportunities Printer Friendly Version ================================================== HEADLINES   (patents issued a few hours ago..) The Patent on Patents Patent of the Day goes to Knowledge Management Objects, LLC of Virginia for an Apparatus for and method of searching and organizing intellectual property information utilizing a classification system The Scratch Cat Patent of the Day goes to Inventors from Texas for a Method and device for preventing cat from clawing home furnishings     Index ================================================== NEWS TiVo Wins: Patent Dispute, Nielsen Measurement, and Most-Watched Moment http://www.tvtechnology.com/dailynews/one.php?id=1788 TiVo announced that it won a patent infringement suit brought against it in 2001 by Pause Technology LLC. U.S. District Judge Patti Saris of the District of Massachusetts ruled that TiVo did not infringe Pause's patent. TiVo said it would file a motion seeking Pause to pay all its attorney fees and costs.     Index Appeals court rules for Intel in dispute over chip http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/business/7940021.htm A federal appeals court dealt Huntsville-based Intergraph Corp. a setback in its long-running patent dispute with Intel Corp. over a postage stamp-sized computer chip. The dispute centers on whether Intel's Itanium processors infringed on two Intergraph parallel instruction computing patents. Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel paid Intergraph $150 million as a result of a federal trial in Marshall, Texas, in October 2002. Intergraph said that under the settlement, the money is not refundable. Intel said it's reviewing the settlement in light of the appeals court ruling Wednesday, which sent the case back to Texas for further review by the court.     Index Court upholds ruling invalidating University of Rochester pain-drug patent http://www.naplesnews.com/npdn/business/article/0,2071,NPDN_14901_2659451,00.html A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court decision invalidating a patent held by the University of Rochester on research used to develop inflammation treatments. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington made the ruling Friday. In 2000, the university received a 17-year patent on research done by Dr. Donald Young in the 1990 discovery of a new cyclo-oxygenase enzyme, cox-2. The school sued the pharmaceutical companies that developed so-called cox-2 inhibitor drugs, claiming patent infringement. The enzyme's discovery led to the creation of drugs that relieve pain without risking the stomach and gastrointestinal ailments associated with regular use of aspirin, ibuprofen and other anti-inflammatory drugs. Five years ago, Celebrex was the first such drug to hit the market.     Index ================================================== PATENTS OF THE DAY 6,694,331 Apparatus for and method of searching and organizing intellectual property information utilizing a classification system Abstract:  An apparatus for and a method of searching and organizing intellectual property (IP) is provided. In accordance with a preferred embodiment of the invention, an apparatus (and corresponding method) is provided for formulating and facilitating searches for intellectual property, and organizing results of such searches. In an exemplary embodiment, a search and organization server is provided with one or more modules to create and process search queries to be run on local or remote database systems. A class search module, for example, may be provided to provide on-line access to classification information and facilitate searching of intellectual property using select classifications. An IP thesaurus module may be provided for developing a list of elements (e.g., words, textual phrases, concepts, representations, numbers, identifications, pictures, graphics, features, etc.) found in select intellectual property information (e.g., groupings of patents). In accordance with an exemplary embodiment, the list of elements may be used as an aid in learning a new technology, as a search tool to refine search queries or criteria, as a drafting tool to assist in the preparation of technical or legal documents (e.g., proposals, licenses, patent applications, etc.), or any other practical use. A field-of-search module may be provided to creation of a field-of-search based on search information identified from select intellectual property information. Additional modules (e.g., search engine, workspace module, alert generator, report generator, etc.) may be provided in the search server to formulate, store, organize and output results achieved through operation of the search server.     Index 6,692,594 Method and device for preventing cat from clawing home furnishings Background:  An array of strips is affixed to a transfer sheet, with the strips uniformly spaced apart. Each strip has a transparent plastic film with an adhesive coating on both sides of the strip. A release layer is affixed each film. A strip is peeled from the transfer sheet so that the adhesive coating is exposed. The user then presses a strip against an item of furniture in a typical area where a cat may tend to "sharpen" its claws. Finally, the release layer is peeled from the strip, thereby exposing the other adhesive coating. When a cat attempts to scratch the furniture, its paw contacts and receives an unpleasant sticking sensation from the exposed adhesive coating, deterring the cat from future contact with that item of furniture. Another embodiment has a rigid substrate with an adhesive side and a release layer. After the release layer is peeled from the strip, the adhesive is exposed and the strip is placed on the soil of a potted houseplant. The adhesive on the substrate deters a cat from future contact with the soil of the houseplant.     Index ================================================== ACCESS OFFICIAL GAZETTE AND NOTICES Access this week's Official Gazette http://www.uspto.gov/web/patents/patog/week07/OG/index2.htm Excerpt from OG Notices Lack of Response to Survey by Practitioners Registration to Practice     Index ================================================== PATENTS AVAILABLE FOR LICENSING to Learn More or to List a Patent 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.     Index ================================================== EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES to List a Job Patent Related Jobs from Monster Patent Related Jobs from www.IntelPropLaw.com     Index ================================================== GEN-ERIC Channel