Patent Search and Filing

Zi suspicious of motive behind Nuance patent suit (Canadian Business)
CALGARY – Zi Corp. (TSX:ZIC) says it remains suspicious of the motive behind a previously announced patent suit filed against it by Nuance Communications, which has also made a US$40-million takeover offer for the software company.

Patent Infringement (The Shorthorn)
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington upheld an Austin federal court s judgment in favor of Motorola Inc. and other wireless phone companies after the UT System filed a patent infringement claim against them.

US firm files patent claim against Nintendo Wii (AFP via Yahoo! News)
A US firm said Wednesday it had filed legal actions against Japanese-based Nintendo claiming patent infringement by the wildly popular Wii game console.

Nintendo Wii Targeted In Patent Lawsuit (Slashdot)
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that a Maryland start-up company has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Nintendo, alleging four patent violations three in the Wiimote alone. “The start-up, Hillcrest Laboratories Inc. of Rockville, MD, filed a complaint Wednesday against Nintendo with the US International Trade Commission, alleging that the Wii’s motion-sensing controller and …

NuVasive Announces Patent Infringement Complaint Brought by Medtronic Sofamor Danek (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
NuVasive, Inc. , a medical device company focused on developing products for minimally disruptive surgical treatments for the spine, announced today that it has obtained a complaint brought by Medtronic Sofamor Danek alleging patent infringement involving certain NuVasive products.

Barr signs agreements to settle Mirapex and Aggrenox patent challenges (Pharmaceutical Business Review)
Barr Pharmaceuticals has announced that its Barr Laboratories subsidiary has signed a settlement agreement and a license agreement with Boehringer Ingelheim to resolve the patent litigation involving Boehringer Ingelheims Mirapex product.

Mirage Receives USPTO Notice of Allowance for its Second U.S. Patent (Centre Daily Times)
Mirage Networks, developer of patented, full-cycle Network Access Control (NAC) technology, today announced that the company received a Notice of Allowance for U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 10/676,637 and the issue fee has been paid, which will result in the patent being issued in the normal course of business, likely by the end of the year. With one patent already awarded in December 2006, …

Health Discovery Corporation’s Newest U.S. Patent Covers SVM-Based Analysis of Medical Images (Centre Daily Times)
Health Discovery Corporation (“HDC”) (OTCBB: HDVY) today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted Patent No. 7,383,237 on HDC’s claims covering the use of Support Vector Machines (SVM’s) in computer-aided image analysis for analysis of digitized microscopic images of medical specimens. This new patent is a continuation of HDC’s Patent No. 6,996,549, which covers a …

Health Discovery signs pact with PPI for monetization of patent portfolio (PharmaBiz)
Health Discovery Corporation (HDC), a leader in support vector machine (SVM) based molecular diagnostic and prognostic test development, announced the signing of an agreement with Patent Profit International (PPI), a Silicon Valley-based patent brokerage firm, with the goal of exploiting the full monetization potential of HDC’s extensive pioneering patent portfolio.

Linux patent pool to push for ‘defensive publication’ (InfoWorld)
A tech vendor-backed company that buys up patents in an effort to protect the Linux community from intellectual property (IP) litigation will soon launch a Web site to help inventors file defensive publications — documents that make details of an invention public, preventing others from later making patent claims on it. “The more we can mobilize this community, the fewer patents that …