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OmniActive and Kemin Reach Amicable Settlement in Patent Dispute (redOrbit)
SHORT HILLS, N.J., Nov. 30 /PRNewswire/ — Kemin Foods, L.C. (”Kemin”) and OmniActive Health Technologies, Inc. and OmniActive Health Technologies, Ltd. (”OmniActive”) have reached an amicable settlement of their dispute. The parties agree that Kemin’s US Patent No.

Retiring Chief Federal Patent Judge May Start Think Tank (Nasdaq)
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The retiring chief judge for the federal patent appeals court may start his own intellectual property think tank, where he will press for limited congressional meddling in U.S. patent law.

AU Optronics Honored with 2009 / 2010 Ocean Tomo 300(R) Patent Index (redOrbit)
HSINCHU, Taiwan, Nov. 26 /PRNewswire-Asia/ — AU Optronics Corp. (”AUO” or the “Company”) (TAIEX: 2409; NYSE: AUO) announced today that it is honored with the 2009 / 2010 Ocean Tomo 300(R) Patent Index.

Federal Circuit Rules That Muscle Magazine Ad Invalidates Patent (Law.com via Yahoo! Finance)
The Federal Circuit has upheld a lower court ruling that a muscle magazine ad about a bodybuilding supplement rendered the underlying patent obvious and invalid. The decision upheld an Eastern District of Texas ruling that seven of the patent’s claims were invalid because the invention “was disclosed in a printed publication before the critical date.”

Federal Circuit Rules That Muscle Magazine Ad Invalidates Patent (Law.com)
The Federal Circuit has upheld a lower court ruling that a muscle magazine ad about a bodybuilding supplement rendered the underlying patent obvious and invalid. The decision upheld an Eastern District of Texas ruling that seven of the patent’s claims were invalid because the invention “was disclosed in a printed publication before the critical date.” The appeals court found that a person with …

Microsoft tries to patent sparkline infographics (Geek.com)
Like any large company, Microsoft s no stranger to frivolous patent filings, either for questionably vague technological advancements or for inventions that should rightfully be credited to other individuals. That said, they seem to be on a roll lately. Just a few weeks ago, in fact, Microsoft attempted to patent a type of sudo command, despite [...]

Aperio receives US patent for client/server image analysis (PharmaBiz)
Aperio Technologies, Inc, (Aperio), a global leader in digital pathology for the healthcare and life sciences industry, announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued the company patent No. 7,602,524 entitled ‘Image Processing and Analysis Framework’.

USPTO Publishes Eight RNAi-Related Patent Applications (GenomeWeb News)
According to the patent application s abstract, the invention comprises compositions and methods for [the] treatment of diseases involving unwanted neovascularization.

BioLife Solutions announces that it has been granted a Japanese patent (News-Medical-Net)
BioLife Solutions, Inc., a leading developer, manufacturer, and marketer of proprietary cGMP hypothermic storage and cryopreservation media products for cells, tissues, and organs, today announced that it has been granted a Japanese patent for an application that includes claims related to protecting cells from injury and death caused by cold temperatures used in biopreservation.

WEB/TECH: Apple Patent Could Embed Ads in Os (All About Jazz)
Apple review, Apple commentary, Apple news… Everything Apple The New York Times reports on an Apple patent that was disclosed last month (the same day as the Windows 7 launch, incidentally) that would embed ads within the Apple OS, possibly as a way of subsidizing its hardware. The claims are eye-opening: “A computer-implemented method for providing an advertisement in a device, the method …