Boliven is getting closed !
Posted on: January 19, 2010
I recently received an email for the admin department of Boliven (http://www.boliven.com/) that they are going to close there website during this week.
To me, it was a fantastic website. I often used it for my patent analysis as there were few a very interesting tools in it . The coverage of the database was also quite comprehensive and personally i really like the auto generation of flash graphs. Moreover, it was a good website for networking as well. One can locate any member according to technology or college or school. Well, if a website who has attracted 100,000 unique monthly visitors and over 6,000 registered members was doing pretty good. But founder and President of Bolevin, Thomas D Lehrman, has revoked the website as he said that they have fallen short of operational and financial goals.
Its sad. Hope to find similar substitute soon !
If you have something to share, please let me know.
MS word 2007 is banned
Posted on: December 23, 2009
In light of patent violation by Microsoft, today US court has ordered the software giant to stop selling of MS word 2007. Earlier in June – 2009, i4i Inc, a Canadian software company, sued Microsoft for infringing on its patents. Patents were broadly related to encryption technology on which MS word was found to be infringing.
Now, suit has swung in favor of i4i, court has ordered defendant to pay $290 m before start selling its product.
But the happy news is, the much awaiting MS word 2010 does not contain the concept of i4i Inc and hence can be sell without fear of sue from i4i, Inc.
I believe, this lawsuit will act as catalyst and will force Microsoft to launch MS word 2010 before the schedule.
It has been just a month or two since Window 7 was launched. So adj1 (much hyped OR much awaited) , this latest windows was out on October 22 this year.
“Too slow” was my personnel issue with windows vista so hence, I was also looking for the launch day too. I must say many thanks to Abhinav Goyal who helped me in installation ( in fact he did it ). And now I am very happy.
Anyhow, let me not derail from the topic. đ
I think, Microsoft people must be enjoying since then, until Implicit Networks spoiled their party. They have recently filed a fresh lawsuit against the software giant, Microsoft.
According to the plaintiff, Windows 7 is infringing upon USP 6629163 and now they want the defendant to pay the damages.
I looked upon the independent claims of this patent and found it very generic. The validity of this patent can be challenged as the claims are very broad and I feel it is a prerequisite process for receiving any information in the receiver.
I believe this method is quiet likely to be known before December 29, 1999.
Lets see what Microsoft has to say about it. đ
JP2008137624
Posted on: December 2, 2009
Recently, I found this patent very interesting and thought to share it with you. I hope you will enjoy the read.
Here is the abstract of the reference:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a means for detecting alcohol in expiration of a driver with the driver almost unaware of the detecting operation when the driver is about to start a vehicle, enabling the driver to start the vehicle when alcohol is not detected, making the driver select stop of driving or measurement of the alcohol amount when alcohol is detected, and for preventing the driver from starting the vehicle when the alcohol amount exceeding a reference value is measured.
SOLUTION: To sense alcohol included in expiration in a space from a driver seat to a support column before the driver seat, a sensor of carbon dioxide which is a main component of expiration and a sensor for detecting alcohol in the expiration are installed. When the driver gets in the vehicle, alcohol in the expiration of the driver is automatically sensed. When alcohol is detected, by making the driver exhale to the measuring device, the alcohol amount is measured. When the alcohol amount exceeds the reference value, start of the engine is prohibited.
“Drinking and Driving are antonyms” is the message which i found from this patent.
I am looking forward for the day when all manufactures will incorporate this system in every vehicle. đ I feel this patent reference holds a big value.
Keep a bird eye on this reference guys. I feel, it will float in many countries. đ
I am unaware of any similar references. If you know, please feel free to share.
~Cheers~
US 6025810
Posted on: November 1, 2009
Who says you cannot send the signal more than the speed of light !!
Mr. David Strom has already done it in 1998 and successfully got a patent from USPTO too.
Still can’t believe it ? Then read the following claim of of the invention:
I claim:
1. A method to transmit and receive electromagnetic waves comprising:
generating opposing magnetic fields each having a plane of maximum force running perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the respective magnetic field;
generating heat from a heat source along an axis parallel to the longitudinal axis of the magnetic field;
generating an accelerator parallel to and in close proximity to the heat source, thereby creating an electromagnetic injection point; and
generating a communication signal into the electromagnetic injection point, thereby sending and receiving the communication signal at a speed faster than a known speed of light.
It is difficult to believe on this invention.. isn’t  !!
Let me know your views on it !!
Recently, I was browsing some of the old articles on ‘prior art’. I found few blogs, forums and articles on it and I must say, they all were very impressive and were interesting to read. I was skimming through swiftly till my mind forced my eyes to glue to this article. In a flash, I realized that my mind wants to strip of this article and wants it to stand naked in front of my innocent eyes. As expected, my eyes obeyed the order, took less then a minute to aroused my corrupted mind and hence completely failed to prevent my fingers to push it under http.
Initially, I went thoughtless when I read the title of the article ” Donald Duck as prior art “. The title was in itself very absorbing and was asking for a glance. After few glimpses, I realized something echoed in my mind. I tried to decode those faded signals and then later successfully recovered as “Comic Book ??”
WoW !! was the following word I played on my vocal chords. “Movies, any books can be used as a prior art !” – earlier , this was just a fairy tale for me and I never realized how relevant the comic books can be for my search results.
Anyhow, I went through the complete article and found that in 1949 the application NL 6514306 which was filed by Karl Krøyer was rejected just because examiner found the same invention in one of the comic books. I think the examiner must be fond of reading all these scriptures. Well who knows !!
Anyhow, the gist of the article can be completely understood from the following two images:
Disclosure from the comic book:
Patent Application:
A better implementation of the invention:
Well, this article has surely realized me the ‘den’ of prior art. Searching anything under http is not enough. Prior art can be anything, anywhere located and to identify it, you have to swing your thinking. I feel, someday, someone will come up with a patent search engine which will enable us to search in comic books too. !!
I must confess to my perception, I am eagerly looking forward to that day. !!
CPA Global is on sale !!.
Posted on: October 26, 2009
CPA global aka Intellevate, one of the best global patent service provider, is on SALE.  The reason for selling is more astonishing !!  Market fluctuations, Recession, Slowdown is  none of the reason for their decision. Infact, last year they have generated a revenue of £150m.
When i read for a reason, Â i ended up with a smile. Â I found that around 300 shareholders are near to their retirement and now they wanted to sell out.
Quite interesting !!
Lloyds Banking Group has shown interest in buying out the venture and they have offered a mammoth ÂŁ450m.
Lets see where the negotiations end up.
Every company on this planet is scared from the patent trolls. They make alliances, negotiations with the competitors, universities just in light to not to taste them. But the cloud of uncertainty always roar in their head. They never know when the rain of lawsuits fall on them and they feared of getting drowned in floods of million $ damages.
The threat of getting sued by the trolls is always orbiting them and now they have one more reason to feel more apprehensive.
Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organization (CSIRO), which is famously known as “Good Patent Troll” has earned a mammoth $ 184 million during the last year. They have settled with some of the richest companies like Intel and Nintendo. Recently they had organized a party to celebrate the rich damage collection.
But the taste of the victory has not pushed them to a complacent world. They are in no mood of mercy and have recently filed some fresh lawsuits against big giants.
Big tech giants must keep a bird eye on them.
“Are you mad!! Are you crazy!! What is wrong with you?â All my friends fired such slingshots at me when I decided to join this new bie company – GreyB. It was an Intellectual Property firm but by that time their main work was more inclined towards patent research. Though neither of my friends nor me ever heard of such âextraordinary propertyâ since our first breath but just to check I googled “Intellectual property” before my joining. I found few and skimmed through one article and saw big fatty words like “Inventions, Innovations, Novelty,creative minds, crazy minds property”. Somehow all these fatty words glued to my brain cells and lost in unknown dark part of my head. I decided to discuss it with my friends and hope to cash back some confidence in return. But the response from them was portfolio of queries, questions and reasons for my decision. Their modulated apprehensions were worth to listen and then later became the reason for my decision to oscillate. My mind started swinging with greater amplitude as the time was fading away. But fortunately and luckily, sometime, somewhere, somehow all those fatty words started echoing again in part between my ears and only this event helped my decision to weight more than any apprehensions. Just a day before of my joining, I was still confused to join and but then later I fold my hands, bent my knees and bowed my head to my lord and I surrendered my career keys to the fortune. I put some confidence in my mouth, digested with blessings from my family and well wishers, shouldered my bags and boarded the bus to Chandigarh for my first job.
I still remember the first day of my professional life, it was October 15, 2007.  The moment I stepped in, I realized and later confirmed that I was the third employee of this company. By then, my dreams of working in big office and with a crowd of colleagues were shattered. But it was not enough, the big hammer was still yet to fall. My throat started searching for some drops when I came to know that I am supposed to sit right below the eyebrows of the Director and CEO of the firm. I knew that any dance of their eyes could have exposed my 17ââmonitor so I was carrying some weight of apprehensions while accessing any unauthorized www. The other two guys were sitting right behind me and the only option I was left was to glue my eyeballs to the CRT. I adjusted my butts on my chair and started  reading some article. My honest eyes were fully co-operating me till my corrupt mind seduced my eyeballs to the clock. I was stunned to see that it has been just 5 minutes since I started reading an article. The earth stood still for me that day.  The lazy second hand of the clock had completely forgotten to trigger. It was like, all hands of the clock are repelling each other and are mocking at me.  Thanks to Deepak (CEO) who soon called me up in the conference room for training session. I was relieved and entered the room with an ecstasy and with new hope. I pushed out some breaths of relieve as I knew it will act as catalyst for the time. After few minutes, the room was echoed with words like âpatent, intellectual property, copyrights, trademarks, etc, etcâ. When these polluted words fall on my ear drum I was forced to stop listening to him, I searched my head for these words and I found no hits. I was wondering when I have read that in my education. I was never confronted with such obnoxious words in my entire life and worst thing was that I was about to make my career in it. âYou can leave, we will continue tomorrowâ  his only words managed to brought my conscious back to the room. As the day was called off, I shrugged to my decision and flew back to the room.
In and out, some and all, it was a memorable day for me. I will continue to share my experience with GreyB in my future scribbles.
‘ Low battery ‘, ‘ Switch off ‘, ‘ I forgot my charger ‘, ‘Where is  power plug ? ‘
All these words are going to get obsolete very soon. Because now you can recharge your phone without using any charger. Â Just stretch your arms, shake your hand, give a nice little pat on phone and your phone will be recharged.
Patent Infringers 