The SonicBlue chief executive, Ken Potashner, denied that the company had infringed the patent named in TiVo's suit.
The first is the so-called "Steve Jobs patent", named after the company's founder, which involves touch-screen technology.
Bellco S.p.A. commercialyzes an extracorporeal device based on this patent, named as coupled plasma filtration adsorption (CPFA).
The Spansion patents named in these law suits are fundamental to floating gate technology, which is the foundation for approximately 90percentt of the Flash memory market.
In total, there are five counts of infringement against five Bose patents named in the suit, which are supposedly violated by Beats Studioo line.
Styrene is used as a starting material in the manufacture of a wide range of plastics - polystyrene foam (often referred to by Dow's patent name Styrofoam), synthetic rubber, cooking utensils, plastic food wrap, PVC piping, insulated cups, and plastic bottles.
The application, for a voice- and text-based search engine, was "an obvious variation" on existing ideas, a patent examiner named Raheem Hoffler wrote.
In fact, even though his patent is named "Stealthy Keyboard," it is somewhat imprecise to call it that since it lacks the traditional "board".
In 1906, a patent lawyer named Edwin Prindle published a series of articles in the magazine Engineering in which he explained to businesses how they could use patents to restrain trade.
Alexander invents an electric toothbrush -- "It'll help people keep their teeth well into their 40's," he crows -- walks the streets of old New York without his bowler and corresponds with a patent clerk named Albert Einstein.
