The claim over patent No. 6, 246, 862, was the last patent-in-suit standing from its 2010 complaint against Apple.
Patent No. 6, 000, 000 was awarded on Dec. 7, 1999, to 3Com for Jeff Hawkins and Michael Albanese's invention of "hot synchronization" technology for handhelds.
In litigation with Samsung, Apple declared its Patent No. 7, 844, 915 as the most commercially valuable of the three multi-touch patents that Samsung was accused of violating.
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More recent versions are covered by Patent No. 7, 401, 727.
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The treatment described by U.S. Patent No. 5, 712, 327 makes it possible to wear contact lenses for long periods of time, and the jury found it had been used in Ciba Vision's Focus Night and Day and O2OPtix products.
U.S. Patent No. 2, 292, 387 for a "Secret Communication System" was issued to Hedy Kiesler Markey and George Antheil in 1942. (Markey was the surname of a husband she had divorced in 1940.) The frequency-hopping technology was not put to use in World War II, but it was employed in 1962 during the blockade of Cuba.
The owner of the patent, Prometheus Labs, says Mayo is being ridiculous and the patent is no more threatening than similar ones for diagnostic tests for diabetes and HIV.
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And since no patent can be issued on Ginko Biloba or St John's Wort, there is no advantage to any company which pays to test natural drugs.
Worse, the company's chief asset--its nifty software--still has no patent or trademark protection (see radar graph).
As it stands, this is just a patent, and no plans for such a concept have been announced.
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No patent should be issued, Patel said, if the same process could be performed by a human with pen and paper.
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The country has no patent regime currently, although patent protection is due to come into force in the next five years.
We might well be better off with no patent system at all.
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American Locker apparently has no patent protection for its meal ticket -- the virtually indestructible plastic postal cluster boxes for housing developments and apartments.
But in some cases, as with drugs for rare diseases or studies done in children, the FDA will lengthen this exclusivity, or grant it where no patent exists.
In the meantime, DuPont AIDS drug Sustiva fits in with Bristol's two HIV treatments, and DuPont anti-coagulant Coumadin meshes with Bristol's existing heart drugs, even though no patent protects it.
Schering has a lot more going for it than most drug firms, including no patent expirations until 2016 and a drug some anesthesiologists say will revolutionize the way they bring people back after surgery (see box).
The guts of the present patent application (No. 206338) concern the mechanical and laser systems required to compensate for large, initial variations (as in head size) as well as smaller ones like temperature and head movements in order to create a reliable active alignement between the stereo images.
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The lawyer found no applicable patent, and Pentalpha sold its fryer to Sunbeam, which in turn sold them in the U.S. through Montgomery Ward and other resellers.
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As evidence, he points to the case of cystic fibrosis: unlike breast cancer, no monopoly patent blocks access to the relevant gene, and dozens of rival testing companies flourish.
In fact, the Patent and Trademark Office has no control over the revenue it earns.
But when the Federal Circuit became the only court ruling on patent cases, there were no more circuit splits and no more competing legal precedents.
As a result, the patent system is transferring resources from guys trying to create the next Angry Birds and to patent lawyers who are creating no value.
It also drives home the trouble that large pharmaceutical companies are having inventing new medicines, even as their old moneymakers approach a time when they will no longer have patent protection.
But make no mistake, patent stockpiling isn't socially beneficial.
Independent inventors and small enterprises are the parties the U.S. patent system was designed to protect and promote, but most can no longer enter the high-stakes patent battlefield.
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The court said Honeywell's technology was similar to Litton's, but close resemblance alone no longer amounted to patent infringement.
Like all patent applications, there's no guarantee that Google's submission with come to fruition, but if you're feeling optimistic, you can hit up the source link below for all the legalese.
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