Patent News Watch
From First to File (www.firsttofile.com)July 21st, 2008
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-Thomson wins appeal of software patent verdict
-3Com to Receive $70 Million from Realtek to Resolve Patent and Technology Issues
-Patents: The New Class Action Frontier?
-Hynix Might Pay $51 Million to Rambus for U.S. Access (Update3)
-Can a Patent Plaintiff Reserve Claims to be Filed in a Later Lawsuit?
-Protect later innovations without starting new patent application
-Creating A List From A Database? Prepare For A Patent Infringement Suit
-Trade agreement plans do not include iPod frisking
-Job Spotlight: Why Patent Examiners are getting upto a $9,000 signing bonus from Uncle Sam
-Patent Expiries, Empty Pipelines, And Safety Concerns Spell Woe For Pharma Industry
-Attorney dies after 107 well-spent years
FTC hammers invention, patent promoters with $10M settlement
(NetworkWorld) The owners of an invention promotion operation that charged up to $12,000 to evaluate and promote consumers' inventions agreed today to pay $10 million in consumer redress to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they deceived consumers across the country.
Read More
Thomson wins appeal of software patent verdict
(AP) A federal appellate court in Philadelphia on Monday overturned a jury's finding that Thomson Reuters Corp. infringed a patent for trading municipal bonds in Internet auctions.
Read More
3Com to Receive $70 Million from Realtek to Resolve Patent and Technology Issues
(BUSINESS WIRE/WSJ) 3Com Corporation today announced that on July 11, 2008 3Com and Realtek Group reached an agreement with respect to certain networking technologies of 3Com that will resolve the long-standing patent dispute between the companies
Read More
Patents: The New Class Action Frontier?
(The Recorder/Law.com) An intense patent fight between rivals Synopsys Inc. and Magma Design Automation cost Magma $12.5 million to settle last year.
Read More
Hynix Might Pay $51 Million to Rambus for U.S. Access (Update3)
(Bloomberg) Hynix Semiconductor Inc., the world's second-largest maker of memory chips, might be forced to pay more than $51 million a year, or 11 cents a share, to Rambus Inc. rather than be barred from its $1.2 billion computer-chip market in the U.S. by a federal judge in California.
Read More
Can a Patent Plaintiff Reserve Claims to be Filed in a Later Lawsuit?
(PatentlyO) Over the past few years, the CAFC has been developing its jurisprudence on both claim preclusion and issue preclusion. A new appeal will likely add to the mix.
Read More
Protect later innovations without starting new patent application
(TechJornal) Today's rapidly-changing technological environment mandates that companies continually revise and refine their innovations to keep up with their markets.
Read More
Creating A List From A Database? Prepare For A Patent Infringement Suit
(Techdirt) Thanks to the whole slew of folks who sent this in: TechCrunch has the details on Channel Intelligence, a company that owns a ridiculously broad and obvious patent on creating a list from a database and is now suing a whole bunch of small websites that offer things like wishlists.
Read More
Trade agreement plans do not include iPod frisking
(Proportal) A feared trade agreement between the world's richest countries that opponents claimed would allow for the examining and impounding of iPods at airports is unlikely to result in such activities.
Read More
Job Spotlight: Why Patent Examiners are getting upto a $9,000 signing bonus from Uncle Sam
(OhMyGov!) One could argue that the patent system in the United States is the single key to the economic success of capitalism in this country.
Read More
Patent Expiries, Empty Pipelines, And Safety Concerns Spell Woe For Pharma Industry
(Pharmaceuticalonline) Informa Pharma analyst Dr Peter Charlish highlights the tough issues facing the pharma industry and explains why the next few weeks will be critical in gauging how the world's major drug companies will fare during the next couple of years.
Read More
Attorney dies after 107 well-spent years
(ConcordMonitor) Where do you start when speaking about Charles Yardley Chittick?
Read More
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The First to File EFR™ electronic filing and storage system is our next generation product which is designed to reduce paper output in corporate patent departments. This system integrates seamlessly with outside docketing providers and document management systems using XML API technology. The First to File EFR system is an out of box solution with customized fields and user profiles to match your company's IP management workflow.
First to File EFR™ also features the following:
· Exclusive Tri-Fold™ interface
· Effective patent workflow process management
· Fully searchable text with InstantOCR™
· WebDAV drag-and-drop functionality
· Centralized Reference Library with search and ranking
· PAIR integration
· LDAP administration
· Managed user access
· Effective group collaboration
· Serversecure™ technology
· Document level security access
FTF Technologies specializes in finding cost-effective solutions to meet the needs of individual patent departments. To find out more information about First to File EFR™, please click Here.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
No comments:
Post a Comment