Agere Systems was awarded $18.5M from Sony for PSP patent infringement

The data is reproduces from the website. The patent dispute between Agere Systems (now a part of LSI Electronics) and Sony came to an end today, with Agere emerging as the victor. Sony must now cough up $18.5 million as a penalty for infringing upon an Agere patent, 5,670,730 (hereafter referred to as the ’730 [...]

Outsourcing patent related searvices from India – market report

Research and Markets has added the market report etitled “Offshoring Patent Services to India” to their offering. Revenues from the Indian patent services offshoring industry are estimated at $46 m for the calendar year 2007 and are expected to reach $206 m by end 2012. Typically catering to the international markets, patent services outsourcing to [...]

Importance of Patent Search and Focus on Key Word Based Search

This is the article posted by me long time back Everybody is doing the patent search by his own approach. What is the best way to carryout patent search? Is it key word search or classification code search? People prefer mainly keywords for effective searching. Some people use classification codes also along with keywords for [...]

Stem Cell Sciences Reinforces its International Patent Position in Stem Cell Technologies

Stem Cell Sciences announces that European patent no. 0695361 covering its IRES technology was upheld by the European Patent Office in Munich on 12th November 2008. The EPO Technical Board of Appeal dismissed objections against the patent raised by Institut Pasteur on 12th April 2007. SCS’ IRES (Internal Ribosome Entry Site) technology enables researchers to [...]

Web search engines

Aport! the search engine: One of the more powerful Russian search engines, claiming to index over 1.7 million Russian Web pages Cross simple query: Croatian WWW search engine. EISIL electronic information system for international law: Electronic information system for International Law Google IAndex poiskovaia sistema dlia vsekh: A full-text search engine that indexes Russian Web [...]

Whether provisional application is considered as prior-art for anticipation?

In Ex parte Yamaguchi (Appeal 2007-44 12 Application 101862,079; Decided: August 29,2008), where the cited reference to Narayanan was filed on December 7, 2001-a date prior to the effective filing date of the present application, but after its foreign priority date. But Narayanan claims benefit under fj 1 19(e) to a provisional application filed December [...]

Patent search – when, where……

This is an assignment did by myself for an academic purpose only. I think this information can be utilized by learners, so I am posting this here. Objective & Methodology The patent searching is emerging as new business for outsourcing in India so the objective of the present study reveals the need, source and method [...]