Improved Electron Management – ICAP Patent Brokerage Announces a Patent Portfolio for Sale Improving Direction of …
CHICAGO, Feb. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — ICAP Patent Brokerage , a division of ICAP plc and the world’s largest intellectual property brokerage and patent auction firm, is offering a portfolio for sale that …

Apple Hit With Playlist Patent, Suit Filed By Former Judge’s Firm
A Texas shell company, Smart Audio Technologies, has filed a suit claiming Apple s iPod Nano and other devices violate its patent for random song playlists.

AWR Expands Patent Portfolio and Receives Patent for Automatic Creation of Vias in Electrical Circuit Design
AWR Corporation, the innovation leader in high-frequency EDA software, has been issued a US Patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office for automatic creation of vias

Honeywell Files Lawsuit Alleging Patent Infringement by Nest Labs; Follows Similar Litigation Against Other …
MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Honeywell (NYSE: HON – News) today filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Nest Labs, Inc. in the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota. The …

Diamond – the New Standard in Semiconductors: ICAP Patent Brokerage Offers for Sale AKHAN Technology’s Miraj Diamond …
CHICAGO, Feb. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — ICAP Patent Brokerage , a division of ICAP plc and the world’s largest intellectual property brokerage and patent auction firm, is offering for sale the intellectual …

Honeywell Files Lawsuit Alleging Patent Infringement by Nest Labs; Follows Similar Litigation Against Other …
MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Honeywell (NYSE: HON – News) today filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Nest Labs, Inc. in the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota. The …

Physicians Interactive Awarded First-Ever Patent for Medication eSampling
MARLBOROUGH, MA– – Physicians Interactive , the leading provider of online and mobile clinical resources and solutions for medical professionals, today announced at the ePharma Summit in New York City …

eprentise Awarded Patent for Database Consolidation and Separation Technology
ORLANDO, FL– – eprentise, the Oracle E-Business Suite transformation software company, announced that it has been awarded a United States Patent for its award-winning technology, allowing multiple database …

MacroSolve Files Patent Infringement Suit Against Wal-Mart
TULSA, OK– – MacroSolve, Inc., , a leading provider of mobile technologies, apps and solutions for business, today announced it has filed a patent infringement suit against Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. for violation …

Valence Technology Wins European Patent Appeal
AUSTIN, Texas — Valence Technology, Inc. , a leading U.S.-based global manufacturer of advanced energy storage solutions for commercial applications prevailed in seeking the dismissal of an appeal by …

myAutoloan.com Issued 3rd U. S. Patent for Lending Platform
myAutoloan.com Issued 3rd U. S. Patent for Lending Platform myAutoloan.com , an online auto loan finance company continues to expand its lending capabilities and has been awarded its third patent, No. 8,095,458, for its lending technology known as Preferred Placement myAutoloan.com, an online auto finance company, has been awarded its third patent from the US Patent and Trademark Office of the …

Precision BioSciences Announces Allowance of Fourth U.S. Patent Related to Engineered Meganucleases
Precision BioSciences, Inc., a leader in the field of genome engineering, today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued a Notice of Allowance for U.S.

Mobile patent litigation: It’s a push game no one wins
Patent infringement claims in the mobile space are a giant push game that no one can win. Especially not consumers.

Motorola victory in Apple patent war
Motorola Mobility has won a second German patent ruling against Apple over its iCloud service allowing the company to block sales of devices including iPhone and iPad if they use the software that accesses it.

Patent-Palooza: Why Investors Are Suddenly Focused On IP
Guest post by Paul Ryan Paul Ryan is President and CEO of Acacia Research, a patent licensing firm. Only a few short years ago, intellectual property media coverage was relegated to a handful of legal journals, the occasional technology trade or localized depictions of an inventor’s plight against a corporate behemoth. Now, not a day …

inovia Supports Findings of USPTO Report on International Patent Protections for Small Businesses
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued the report, International Patent Protections for Small Businesses, examining how the capacity for American small business to create jobs is at risk due to the high costs of acquiring, maintaining and enforcing patents outside the United States.

Ameranth Receives Notice of Allowance for Major New Patent for its 21st Century Communications Web/Wireless …
SAN DIEGO, Feb. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Ameranth, Inc. announced today that it has received a ‘Notice of Allowance’ from the United States Patent Office for a new, strategic patent containing 18 new patent …

AnywhereCommerce Granted New Secure Transaction Patent
PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — AnywhereCommerce, a leading eCommerce and mCommerce engineering and solutions provider, announced the issuance of US Patent No. 8,055,545, Apparatus and …

Medicity Receives 3rd U.S. Patent for Health Information Exchange Technology
SALT LAKE CITY, UT– – Medicity announced today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has awarded the company a patent for technology that enables secure and effective identification and exchange of …

Search Engines Exit the Crawl Space – ICAP Patent Brokerage Announces for Sale a Patent Portfolio on Improved Vector …
CHICAGO, Jan. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — ICAP Patent Brokerage , a division of ICAP plc, the world’s largest intellectual property brokerage and patent auction firm, is offering for sale a patent portfolio …

Lilly 4Q profit falls 27 pct, hurt by patent loss
Eli Lilly and Co.’s net income tumbled 27 percent in the last quarter of 2011 as the drugmaker faced another revenue-sapping patent expiration for a key product.

Immunomedics Awarded Broad Patent for Anti-CD20 and Anti-CD22 Combination Therapy
MORRIS PLAINS, N.J. — Immunomedics, Inc. , a biopharmaceutical company primarily focused on the development of monoclonal antibody-based products for the targeted treatment of cancer, autoimmune and other …

EU probes Samsung patent ‘abuse’
The European Commission investigates whether Samsung distorted competition by failing to abide by patent rules.

Patent endings raise new biotech issues
Industry leaders are working to develop a road map on how to handle the first biotech trait, Monsanto s Roundup Ready 1 (RR 1) in soybeans, when its U.S. patent expires.

Comcast patent reveals social TV plans
Comcast subscribers, your TV-watching may soon get a whole lot more social. A recent patent from America s largest cable provider, uncovered by FierceCable, reveals that the company is developing technology that would allow users to receive notifications when their friends begin watching particular programs.

Does Innovation Revolve Around Patent Lawyers?
A patent attorney named Daren Gibby was kind enough to send me a copy of his new book Why Has America Stopped Inventing? As you?d expect from a book written by a patent attorney, it?s a pretty strongly pro-patent book. I didn?t expect to agree with the book?s arguments, but I thought it would be …

Mykonos Awarded US Patent on Innovative Web Security Technology
Mykonos Software, the leading provider of Web Intrusion Prevention Systems , today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has awarded the compan

Vystar Corporation Receives its Third US Patent and First Chinese Patent for Vytex Natural Rubber Latex
ATLANTA, Jan. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Vystar Corporation (OTCBB: VYST.OB – News), the exclusive creator of Vytex Natural Rubber Latex (NRL), has received its third US and first Chinese patent for its all-natural …

Alnylam Receives Notice of Allowance from United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for New Patent Broadly …
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. , a leading RNAi therapeutics company, announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued a Notice of Allowance for patent application number 12/813,448, covering the company s proprietary second generation lipid nanoparticle platform, including the MC3 lipid.

Patent battles heat up
Patent holders are not just targeting the biggest online retailers. Online retailers increasingly face e-commerce patent infringement lawsuits or the threat of litigation aimed at forcing them to pay hefty licensing fees to avoid a possible court date.

Precision BioSciences Announces Allowance of Third U.S. Patent Related to Engineered Meganucleases
Precision BioSciences, Inc., a leader in the field of genome engineering, today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued a Notice of Allowance for U.S.

U.S. government invalidates potent Rambus patent
The last of three patents that tech licensing company Rambus used to win infringement lawsuits against Nvidia Corp , Hewlett-Packard and others has been declared invalid, according to legal documents. …

German Court Rejects Another Samsung Patent Claim Against Apple
Samsung on Friday was dealt another blow in its patent battle against Apple, when a German court dismissed one of Samsung’s claims against Cupertino.

Arteris Counters Sonics Patent Infringement Claims
SUNNYVALE, CA– – Arteris, the inventor and leading supplier of network-on-chip interconnect IP solutions, today announced that it has filed a complaint alleging that Sonics’ newest product, SonicsGN , …

Research and Markets: Patent Expiry Strategies of Big Pharma
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “Patent Expiry Strategies of Big Pharma” report to the

EU seeks to end long-running dispute on single patent
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union countries are redoubling efforts to settle a dispute over the introduction of a single European patent, a move that would cut costs for inventors and industry but which, after more than three decades of debate, remains unresolved. EU leaders, including German chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, meet on Monday to discuss ways of …

Apple’s universal remote patent idea goes beyond TV
A new patent application offers a glimpse at a remote control that promises to control multiple devices with a dead-simple setup.

Stellar Pharmaceuticals Receives 2nd Uracyst(R) Patent in United States of America
LONDON, ONTARIO– – Stellar Pharmaceuticals Inc. , today announced that it has received another patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for intellectual property central to one of the Company’s …

Motorola’s Latest Patent Suit Targets Apple’s iPhone 4S, iCloud
Motorola Mobility on Tuesday filed another patent lawsuit against Apple, asking the court for an injunction against the iPhone 4S and Apple’s iCloud service.

Las Vegas Pushed For New U.s. Patent Branch Office
People who deal with patent and trademark law are mounting the equivalent of a two-minute drill to push a Las Vegas entry for a new U.S. Patent & Trademark Office branch office. Late last year, Detroit was named the site of the first of three patent offices

Ortho Caps Files Opposition to Align Technology Patent
HAMM, Germany, January 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ –Ortho Caps GmbH today filed a notice of opposition to Align Technology’s patent EP 2 263 599. With this filing, Ortho Caps has started the opposition procedure …

ITNS to Patent Revolutionary Electro-Magnetic Frequency Technology That Magnetizes Carbon
IRVINE, CA– – Itonis, Inc. today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary Paramount Discoveries has begun the process to obtain patent rights to magnetize carbon with its revolutionary electro-magnetic …

KFx Medical Corporation Awarded New Medical Devices Patent
KFx Medical Corporation today announced that it was granted a new patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office: U.S. Patent No. 8,100,942 broadly covering knotless double row rotator cuff repair.

Apple uses ‘slide to unlock’ patent in lawsuit against Galaxy Nexus
In October 2011, Apple won a patent detailing the method of sliding an onscreen mark to unlock the iOS operating system on a mobile device. Now, just four months later, Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus is coming under fire for violating that patent. As Samsung and Apple have been going head-to-head in court lately, this should come as little surprise. The latest battlefield was in Germany where Samsung …

Psychemedics Awarded Patent Fundamental To Hair Analysis Drug Testing
ACTON, Mass., Jan. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Psychemedics Corporation (NASDAQ: PMD – News) , hair testing pioneer and global leader for 25 years, announced today that the United States Patent Office issued a seventh …

Vaxiion Granted Key Patent Related to Minicell-based Therapeutics
Vaxiion Therapeutics, Inc., the industry leader in minicell-based targeted therapeutics, received official notification from the United States Patent and Trademark Office that the

Gevo Sues Butamax, DuPont Claiming Infringement of Biofuel Process Patent
The patent, awarded today to Englewood, Colorado-based Gevo, covers methods for alcohol recovery at reduced cost, according to its written description.