Patent Search and Filing

Turbine Truck Engines’ Technology Advances Towards Chinese Patent (Marketwire)
DELAND, FL–(Marketwire – October 30, 2009) – Turbine Truck Engines, Inc. (”TTE”) ( OTCBB : TTEG ) is pleased to announce that Robert L. Scragg, the inventor of the Detonation Cycle Gas Turbine (”DCGT”) engine and founder of Alpha Engines Corporation, has received confirmation that the National Stage Application for an advanced version of the DCGT engine was accepted by the Chinese Patent Office …

Innovative Computing Corporation Receives Patent for Auditing Trucking Invoices (Journal of Commerce Online)
Brentwood, TN. October 28, 2009 Innovative Computing Corporation, the trucking industry s leading and longest-standing provider of enterprise software solutions, today announced it has been granted a patent by the U.S. Patent Office for a Method And System For Auditing Trucking Invoices.

Quark Receives Japanese Patent on Proprietary Gene Target (GenomeWeb News)
Quark Pharmaceuticals announced this week that it has received a Japanese patent covering a proprietary gene target.

Allergan wins brimonidine patent infringement case against Exela PharmSci & Apotex (PharmaBiz)
Allergan, Inc announced that the United States District Court for the District of Delaware ruled in favour of Allergan, Inc in its patent infringement suit against Exela PharmSci, Inc, Exela PharmSci Pvt, Ltd, Apotex, Inc and Apotex Corp (collectively, the ‘Defendants’) for seeking to market purported generic versions of Allergan’s drugs Alphagan P (brimonidine tartrate ophthalmic solution) 0.1 …

Japanese Patent granted for Pharmalink AB’s Nefecon (News-Medical-Net)
Pharmalink AB announced today that it has been granted Japanese Patent No 4326696, “Methods and means for treating glomerulonephritis” for its product Nefecon(R) which is being developed to treat IgA nephropathy, a glomerulonephritis leading to end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Counterparts of the patent have been issued for other territories including the EU, US and China.

Nokia takes off the gloves with Apple patent suit (telecomasia.net)
Nokia has gone after Apple, filing a patent claim that accuses its rival of infringing on ten of its patents. The iPhone violates Nokia patents covering GSM, UMTS and WLAN standards, Nokia alleged in the lawsuit filed in a US federal court yesterday.

Nokia Sues Apple for Patent Infringement (HispanicBusiness.com)
Nokia , the Finland-based mobile telecommunications giant, today announced that it has filed a patent infringement suit against Apple. The suit, filed in Federal District Court in Delaware, alleges that Apple’s trend-setting iPhone infringes on 10 of Nokia’s patents for GSM, UMTS and wireless LAN (WLAN) standards.

Crux Biomedical Awarded Patent for Its Novel Blood Filter (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Crux Biomedical Inc. announced today that it was awarded a U.S. patent, , for its novel vena cava filter.

Federal Diary: New boss moves quickly to change sluggish Patent Office (Washington Post)
You know things are bad at a government agency when a Cabinet secretary says as much while swearing in the new boss. It happened at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in August, when Commerce Secretary Gary Locke showed up to swear in the new director, David Kappos, and told the rank-and-file that the agency’s backlog had a negative impact on the country’s economic competitiveness.

CompuSonics Video Corporation Announces Major Development with Patent Portfolio (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
CompuSonics Video Corporation , which engages in the ownership and licensing of various patents in the fields of digitalization and compression of audio and video files, announced today that the company has reached an out-of-court settlement regarding the company’s patent portfolio.