Patent Search and Filing

SAN FRANCISCO: TiVo posts huge quarterly loss as patent expenses hit hard (Tacoma News Tribune)
TiVo Inc. reported a quarterly loss seven times greater than the red ink a year ago, due largely to hefty legal costs associated with a high-stakes intellectual property patent dispute.

Taxes: Patent that loophole (CNN Money)
The Internal Revenue Service has a surprising new enemy in the battle against abusive tax shelters: The United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Chemokine analogs granted US patent (PharmaBiz)
Chemokine Therapeutics Corp., a biotechnology company, announced that the US Patent and Trademark Office has issued US Patent 7,091,310 B2 relating to chemokine analogs for the treatment of human disease.

Stream Theory Awarded Important Streaming Software Patent (SYS-CON Media)
Stream Theory, Inc., a leading developer ofpatented virtualized software delivery and digital rights managementsolutions, today announced it has been awarded U.S. Patent number 7,096,253for ‘Method and Apparatus for Streaming Software.’ The patent, whichcovers core technology related to streaming remotely located softwareprograms and data to a local computer, underpins the Company’s

SigmaTel Enters Patent Licensing Deal (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Audio chip maker SigmaTel Inc. said late Monday it entered a licensing deal with an unnamed Chinese electronics manufacturer for its Chinese Moon-Hwang patent.

WikiPatents Enables Public Patent Review (PR Web)
Community patent review web site improves patent quality by giving public a voice regarding patents. (PRWEB Aug 30, 2006) Trackback URI: http://www.prweb.com/dingpr.php/UHJvZi1NYWduLVByb2YtVGhpci1JbnNlLVplcm8=

Patent applications increase (People’s Daily)
China has received over 13,000 patent applications from US patentees in the first half of this year, a large increase compared with the same period in 2005, said the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO).

EFF Says Patent Law Is a Danger to Open Source (CBR via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
The Electronic Frontier Foundation last week asked the United States Supreme Court to intervene in a recent patent law ruling that it believes could be particularly damaging to free and open source software.

EFF Says Patent Law Is a Danger to Open Source (CBR via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
The Electronic Frontier Foundation last week asked the United States Supreme Court to intervene in a recent patent law ruling that it believes could be particularly damaging to free and open source software.

Novozymes welcomes enzyme patent ruling (Food Production Daily)
28/08/2006 – Novozymes has welcomed last week’s court ruling over a disputed enzyme patent, saying that it was ‘very pleased with the decision’.