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From First to File (www.firsttofile.com)September 29th, 2008
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| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Judge: Microsoft doesn't owe Alcatel-Lucent $1.5B -Judge to award J&J damages in stent suit -P&G again sues Kraft over plastic coffee containers -Chip Maker Rambus Wins Battles, but Faces Bigger War -Patent exhaustion does not create a cause of action; dismissal affirmed -IP bill passes Senate, no civil enforcement power for DoJ -Controversial patent buyer to start Indian operations in Oct -Google unveils its G1 cellphone, potential rival to Apple's iPhone -An Avatar's Bill of Rights -The Friday Flashback: Schwinn Quality, Made in Chicago -The Birthday Last Wednesday Judge: Microsoft doesn't owe Alcatel-Lucent $1.5B (AP/Physorg) Microsoft Corp. does not have to pay $1.5 billion in damages to Alcatel-Lucent SA, a panel of federal appeals judges ruled Thursday, in what may be the last word on a long-running digital music patent lawsuit. Read More Judge to award J&J damages in stent suit (TwinCities) New Jersey-based Johnson & Johnson moved a step closer to collecting several hundred million dollars from Fridley-based Medtronic and Boston Scientific in an 11-year-old dispute involving patents for heart stents. Read More P&G again sues Kraft over plastic coffee containers (Reuters) Procter & Gamble Co is again suing Kraft Foods Inc. claiming Kraft's new plastic Maxwell House coffee container infringes on patents Procter holds for its Folgers coffee brand. Read More Chip Maker Rambus Wins Battles, but Faces Bigger War (NYTimes) Craig Hampel has spent the last two years trying to design the next leap in memory chip technology, one that will allow computers to display more detailed graphics even faster. Now comes the hard part: persuading the world's memory chip manufacturers to pay for it. Read More Patent exhaustion does not create a cause of action; dismissal affirmed (filewrapper) In a decision last week, the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court's decision dismissing a case for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. The plaintiff brought suit when it believed the patent holder had fraudulently concealed a second licensee of the same patents. Read More IP bill passes Senate, no civil enforcement power for DoJ (Arstechnica_ The PRO-IP Act, which would ramp up enforcement of intellectual property laws and stiffen penalties for infringers, won approval by unanimous consent in the Senate Friday-but only after legislators stripped out a controversial provision that would have empowered the Department of Justice to litigate civil suits on behalf of content owners and hand over the winnings. Read More Controversial patent buyer to start Indian operations in Oct (WSJ) New Delhi: Individual inventors and research organizations here may find their patents turning liquid with the imminent entry of Intellectual Ventures Llc., a controversial company that owns an estimated 20,000 patents and is in the market for as many more as it can lay its hands on. Read More Google unveils its G1 cellphone, potential rival to Apple's iPhone (LATimes) Google Inc. on Tuesday showed off a cellphone that could provide the first real challenge to Apple Inc.'s iPhone: a mass-market device with a sharp touch screen and slide-out keyboard that brings the experience of mobile Web surfing closer to that of a personal computer. Read More An Avatar's Bill of Rights (LAW) The 3-D Internet, or "Web 3.0," is an amalgam of virtual reality, convention center, circus, college campus, nightclub, mall, playground and Main Street. Users are getting their first taste of Web 3.0 on virtual world sites like Second Life, which are typically "members only" proprietary sites accessed through the Internet. People are drawn to the interactive, immersing experience these sites offer, and by some estimates there are as many as 300 million active users. Read More The Friday Flashback: Schwinn Quality, Made in Chicago (CanyonNews) Ahhhh, the Schwinn Stingray. Our first real bicycle at 7 years of age was a Stingray in blue, with a five-speed gear shift on the top tube, banana seat, coaster brake, sissy bar and baseball cards fitted between the spokes. That Stingray sparked a lifelong love affair between the bicycle and us. Over the years we've saddled atop a seeming score of other Schwinns, including our current bike, a 2000 Mesa GS that's logged over 40,000 miles in eight years of riding. Read More The Birthday Last Wednesday Yes, the 17th of September was the 221st birthday of the Constitution, and I choose to talk about it through the three great contributions that Benjamin Franklin made to that document. Plus, of course, his summary comment on the steps of Independence Hall when the delegates were leaving for the last time, A woman approached Dr. Franklin and said, "What kind of government have you given us?" He replied, "A republic, if you can keep it." 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. 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