Patent Search and Filing

Patent reform in Congress drives wedge in industry (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
NEW YORK — Venture capitalists are turning into legal experts — and against each other — as Congress prepares to rewrite patent legislation.

Cyberlux Awarded U.S. Patent for Emergency LED Lighting Technology (SYS-CON Media)
Cyberlux Corporation (BULLETIN BOARD: CYBL) , a developer and manufacturer of solid- state diodaltm lighting solutions, announced today that it has been awarded a U.S. patent for its innovative emergency lighting technology based on light emitting diodes (LEDs).

QLT shares drop on news of loss in patent dispute with TAP Pharma (Canadian Press via Yahoo! News)
VANCOUVER (CP) – Shares in drug developer QLT Inc. (TSX:QLT) dropped almost five per cent early Monday in the first day of trading after it said a U.S. court has ruled against it in the latest round of a patent dispute.

U.S. Supreme Court rejects RIM’s BlackBerry patent appeal; RIM to fight on (Canadian Press via Yahoo! News)
WASHINGTON (CP) – The fate of the BlackBerry may be decided by a federal district judge now that the U.S. Supreme Court has chosen not to intervene in a patent dispute between NTP Inc. and Research In Motion Ltd. (TSX:RIM).

Supreme Court Refuses Review in BlackBerry Patent Dispute (New York Times)
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a bid by Research in Motion, the Canadian maker of BlackBerry e-mail devices, to review its patent dispute with the holding company NTP.

Shire Settles Adderall Patent Dispute (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Pharmaceutical firm Shire PLC on Thursday said it has settled a patent dispute with Impax Laboratories Inc. over attention-deficit disorder drug Adderall XR.

‘Raksha Kavach’ gets patent in India and S Africa (Outlook India)
Konkan Railway has secured patent cover for its train anti-collision device `Raksha Kavach’ in India and South Africa, while applications are pending in the US, European and Asian countries.

Alternate Energy Corp. Files Provisional Patent For Hydrogen Production Process (Fuel Cell Today)
Alternate Energy Corporation (AEC) (OTCBB:ARGY) on November 14, 2005 announced that it had filed a provisional patent on a new production process by which it can economically produce pure hydrogen and commercially saleable commodity chemical products that open up a billion dollar worldwide market to the Company.

(AFX UK Focus) 2006-01-17 23:32 GMT: R.R. Donnelley files patent infringment suit vs Quark, Creo (Interactive Investor)
SAN FRANCISCO (AFX) – R.R. Donnelley & Sons said Tuesday after the closing bell it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Quark Inc. and Eastman Kodak’s Creo Inc. subsidiary, alleging that products manufactured and sold by the defendants infringe R.R. Donnelley’s patents covering digital print processes.

DSM Dyneema Files Patent Lawsuit against Chinese Company (ChemPoint)
URMOND, January 16, 2006 — DSM Dyneema, the inventor and manufacturer of Dyneema , the world s strongest fiber, has filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against Hangzhou Pivot International Co. Ltd., of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China, before the Court of Paris, France.