Patent Search and Filing

Cytori Receives Key Patent for its Cosmetic & Reconstructive Surgery Product (Centre Daily Times)
Cytori Therapeutics (NASDAQ: CYTX) today received U.S. Patent No. 7,429,488 (the ‘488 patent), which broadly protects the Company’s Celution(R) System-based methods of generating adipose tissue-derived stem and regenerative cell-enhanced fat grafts. Cell-enhanced fat grafts may be used in a variety of cosmetic and reconstructive surgery applications, including breast reconstruction following …

Court sides with Microsoft in Alcatel-Lucent patent case (America’s Network)
An appeal court ruled thatMicrosoft does not have to pay Alcatel-Lucent US$1.5 billion in a patent infringement case, an AFP report said.

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Court rules for Microsoft in patent case (AFP via Yahoo! News)
A US appeals court ruled Thursday that US computer software giant Microsoft does not have to pay French-US telecom firm Alcatel-Lucent 1.5 billion dollars in a patent infringement case.

AstraZeneca Says U.S. Court Denies Teva Motion in Patent Case (Bloomberg.com)
Sept. 24 (Bloomberg) — AstraZeneca Plc , the U.K.’s second- biggest drugmaker, said a U.S. court denied a motion for summary judgment in a patent case concerning its Pulmicort asthma treatment.

Clone row scientist to get patent (Channel 4)
An Australian agency says it will grant disgraced South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk a patent for his disputed technology for cloning human embryos.

3Com Posts First Profit Since 2000 on Patent Suit (Update2) (Bloomberg.com)
Sept. 22 (Bloomberg) — 3Com Corp. , the networking- equipment maker, reported its first quarterly profit since 2000, buoyed by a patent settlement and sales in China. The results topped estimates, sending the shares higher in extended trading.

Tumbleweed, an Axway Subsidiary, Files Patent Infringement Suit Against Sendmail, Inc (Centre Daily Times)
Tumbleweed Communications Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Axway Inc. and an industry leader in managed file transfer, email security, and identity validation, today announced it has filed a patent infringement suit against Sendmail, Inc. in federal district court in San Francisco, California. Earlier this month, the Axway-Tumbleweed merger was finalized and Tumbleweed’s operations are in the …

Apeda gets powers to protect Basmati patent rights (New Kerala)
New Delhi, Sep 18 : India Thursday decided to empower Agricultural and Processed Food Products Development Authority (Apeda) to protect patent rights for basmati, India’s super quality rice, among other similar rights.