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Global Technology Transfer Group, Inc. (GTT Group), the world leader in patent transaction advisory and patent analysis services, releases the Q3 2012 Patent Market Index (PMI), an index tracking patent transaction activity and trends in the patent marketplace. The Q3 2012 PMI continues the steady growth trend set since Q3 2009, growing 13.1 points in Q3 2012 over the previous quarter. Portland, OR (PRWEB) December 27, 2012 Global Technology Transfer Group, Inc. (GTT Group), the world...
ANNAPOLIS, Md., Dec. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. (TCS) (NASDAQ: TSYS), a world leader in highly reliable and secure mobile communication technology, and IP Cube Partners Co. Ltd of South Korea, today announced that TCS has sold two of its U.S. patents to IP Cube Partners for a multi-seven-figure payment. The two patents are: "Single Gesture Map Navigation Graphical User Interface for a Personal Digital Assistant" (U.S. Patent No. 7,142,205) and "Single...
FARMINGTON, Conn., Dec. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Out of the total 5,568 patents published in Korea, the U.S., Japan and Europe through October 2012, just over 6% of those patents fall in the field of remote phosphor LED lighting technology. Among those 356 patents, only 91 patent applications were selected as key remote phosphor patents. Competition is stiff and the leading applicants such as Philips, Intermatix, and Osram have established a strong barrier. This backdrop...
Pittsburgh-based InventHelp® attempts to submit clients’ inventions to companies for review. PITTSBURGH, PA (PRWEB) December 19, 2012 InventHelp®, America’s largest invention submission company, announces that one of its clients, an inventor from California, has designed a flushable pad that could help prevent urine from splashing out of a toilet and causing a smelly, germ-filled mess. This invention is patented. “LessMess” would protect the toilet rim, floor, walls...
The National Academy of Inventors has named 98 innovators to NAI Charter Fellow status, representing 54 prestigious research universities and non-profit research institutes. TAMPA, Fla. (PRWEB) December 19, 2012 The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) has named 98 innovators to NAI Charter Fellow status, representing 54 prestigious research universities and non-profit research institutes. Together, the new Fellows hold more than 3,200 U.S. patents. Included in the Charter class are...
MALVERN, Pa., Dec. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Ricoh Company, Ltd. has been named to the 2012 Top 100 Global Innovators list by Thomson Reuters, one of the world's leading sources of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. The list honors 100 corporations and institutions around the world "that are at the heart of innovation." Selection is based on four principal criteria: overall patent volume, patent grant success rate, global reach of the portfolio and patent...
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Apple lost a patent infringement lawsuit today in Delaware after a federal jury found that the iPhone had misused patents belonging to a “patent portfolio licensor.” MobileMedia Ideas LLC brought the case against the iPhone maker in 2010, claiming that 14 patents had been violated. This initial complaint was later narrowed down to three patents relating to camera phones and the way calls are handled or rejected. After a...
DENVER, Dec. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Denver-based health care information technology and services provider HealthTrio, LLC, has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Aetna, Inc. (NYSE: AET) and two Aetna subsidiaries. In the lawsuit filed Dec. 11, 2012, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, attorneys for HealthTrio allege that Hartford, Conn.-based Aetna and subsidiaries ActiveHealth Management, Inc. and Medicity, Inc. have infringed 10 HealthTrio...
LAKE FOREST, Calif., Dec. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Comarco, Inc. (OTC: CMRO.PK) announced today it has been issued a new patent (pat. # 8,330,303) by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO). This new patent, which relates to cables that charge electronic devices using connector adapters that provide data and power, brings the total number of patents in the Company's portfolio to 46. "As more and more portable electronic devices proliferate with different power needs, the...
SANTA CRUZ, Calif., Dec. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Newly-launched e-store PatentWear.com is giving everyone an inventive opportunity to "slip into a little bit of history" with its innovative idea for original t-shirt designs created from authentic and historical patents. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121210/CG27078) Passions ranging from aviation to wine, and including such popular themes as sports (from baseball and football to surfing and SCUBA), music, science and...
