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Printer Friendly Version ================================================== HEADLINES (patents issued a few hours
ago..) The No School Left Behind Patent of the Day
goes to eChalk: L.L.C. of New York City for a System and
method for creating, processing and managing educational content within and
between schools
The Head Dunk Patent of the Day goes to
Intercraft Company of North Carolina for a Bobblehead photograph frame
Index ================================================== NEWS Constar Receives $25.1
Million in Settlement of Oxbar Infringement Action http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20041101005999&newsLang=en Constar
International Inc. announced today that it has settled its Oxbar(R) patent
infringement action against Continental PET Technologies, Inc. Constar was paid
$25.1 million, which will be applied to Constar's revolving loan facility. In
addition, Constar has granted Continental PET Technologies, Inc. and its former
parent company, Owens-Illinois, Inc., global licenses to multilayer applications
of the Oxbar(R) patents. Constar also announced the settlement of its related
litigation with Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP. The parties have entered
into a new license going forward that grants Chevron Phillips Chemical rights to
practice the Oxbar(R) patents, but not for rigid polyester packages such as PET
containers.
Index Patent Suit Alleges Disney Stole fastPass Idea
http://www.patentlyobviousblog.com/2004/10/patent_suit_all.html Disney's
patented fastPass system allows customers to reserve a time to ride an
attraction, rather than waiting in line. (U.S. Patent No. 6,173,209). According
to a report by Sean Mussenden at the Sun Sentinel, a Tennessee man has sued
Disney for stealing his idea for the line management system. After Robert Keyes
watched a man pass out in a ride queue at Disney-MGM Studios, he had an
epiphany, he said: Theme park visitors do not have to stand in line. So,
according to a patent lawsuit Keyes filed this month in federal court in
Orlando, he sent a letter to Disney executives in 1991 describing a system that
would allow some theme-park visitors to wait in a "standby" line but give others
a ticket to return later and avoid the wait. A top Disney executive sent him a
letter back a month later, telling him the idea wouldn't work and would result
in "more guest inconvenience," according to Keyes' lawsuit. Now, Keyes has sued
Disney for "stealing his idea." In the complaint, he has requested correction of
inventorship and damages for unjust enrichment. Index Foundry Networks to Pay
Nortel $35 Million to End Patent Suits http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000082&sid=a3.i5kdksVEI&refer=canada Foundry
Networks Inc., a maker of equipment to link computers, agreed to pay $35 million
to Nortel Networks Corp. to end patent-infringement lawsuits. In return, Nortel
will grant Foundry a four-year license for certain patents, the companies said
in a joint statement. Nortel, based in Brampton, Ontario, is North America's
biggest maker of phone equipment. Foundry is based in San Jose, California.
Index ================================================== PATENTS OF THE DAY
6,813,474
System and method for creating,
processing and managing educational content within and between schools
Abstract: An
educational content communications system that provides a system and method for
creating, processing and managing educational content so that students,
teachers, parents, and administrators (including staff) can better access,
share, create, input, manage, store and/or deliver educational content. The
educational content communication system is designed with the capability to
create, process and manage educational content within a school, within and
between a system of schools, within and between a community of schools, and
within and between third-party providers of educational content.
Index
6,810,611
Bobblehead photograph frame
Abstract: A
bobblehead has a body and head. The body and head are configured to represent a
characteristic identified with people or animals. The characteristic, for
example, may represent an occupation, an occasion, a hobby, or a fictional or
other character. The head is configured to receive a photograph of a subject
matching the characteristic.
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Reissue Applications Filed
Requests for Inter Partes Reexamination
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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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