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POZEN Is a Poser

POZEN Is a Poser 06/02/2004 01:43 PM
Here's a great example of the riskiest type of biotech stock.

Poser 6 users get under the skin with
Zygote

Poser 6 users get under the skin with
Zygote 03/24/2005 02:38 PM
Artists, animators, scientists and educators can now delve below the exterior of the human form with Zygote Human Anatomy 2.0 formatted for Poser 6 3D human figure software. The Zygote Human Anatomy collection of human models and images gives Poser 6 users the complete human anatomy including internal organs such as the heart and brain, and anatomical systems such as the nervous system, digestive system, circulatory system, reproductive system, endocrine system, and others. Zygote Human Anatomy 2.O is the first comprehensive anatomy solution for Curious Labs' Poser users.

Curious reveals first new Poser 6
feature

Curious reveals first new Poser 6
feature 02/05/2005 09:19 PM
Curious Labs on Friday unveiled Shadow Catcher, the first new feature that will be included in Poser 6 when it's released sometime this spring. Shadow Catcher makes 3D image composition easier by enabling artists to render shadows independent of background surfaces. It integrates with Poser 6's new lighting features, which will be unveiled at a later date. The developer, which has not released an exact ship date nor pricing, will continue to reveal new features in the coming months. A product page is not available yet on the Curious Labs Web site.

E-on's Mover 5 mates Poser 5, Vue
d'Esprit

E-on's Mover 5 mates Poser 5, Vue
d'Esprit 02/10/2004 02:43 AM
E-on software on Monday announced the release of Mover 5, a major new release of its software that enables Vue d'Esprit and Vue Professional users to host native Poser 5 content.

Macworld: Eovia previews Poser
Transporter

Macworld: Eovia previews Poser
Transporter 01/06/2004 05:46 AM
In booth #2538 at this week's Macworld Conference & Expo, Eovia Corp. is previewing a product code-named Poser Transporter. It's a plug-in for Carrara Studio 3 and Poser 5. Poser Transporter imports animated Poser 5 figures into Eovia's Carrara Studio 3.

Curious Labs to ship Poser 6 in the
spring

Curious Labs to ship Poser 6 in the
spring 02/01/2005 09:53 PM
Curious Labs on Tuesday announced that it will ship Poser 6, the new version of its 3D figure design tool, sometime this spring. The company promises that details about new features, system requirements, pricing and an exact shipping date will be forthcoming. In addition, Curious Labs expects to soon announce special promotions aimed at both seasoned and new Poser users. More specific information is not available at this time.

Curious Labs releases Poser 6 Special
Edition

Curious Labs releases Poser 6 Special
Edition 03/23/2005 05:07 AM
Curious Labs announced today that Poser 6, the new version of their 3D human figure software has begun shipping. This award-winning tool for artists, illustrators, graphic designers and animators delivers sophisticated features combined with an improved user interface allowing hobbyists and creative professionals access to technologies never before offered in one package.

In celebration of the release of Poser 6, Curious Labs is offering a Special Edition of Poser 6. The Poser 6 Special Edition (P6SE) combines the power of the NEW Poser 6 product, additional Winter Queen Figure Pack and also Shade 7 designer LE; providing Poser integration with PoserFusion. The Poser 6 Special Edition is available direct from Curious Labs while supplies last for USD$269 and has a product value of more than USD$400.

After the Special Edition offer expires, Poser 6 will be available for USD$249 directly from Curious Labs and will be available through major retailers, Apple Stores, mail order catalogs, and through the Curious Labs international partner network.

Curious Labs ships 3D human figure tool
Poser 6

Curious Labs ships 3D human figure tool
Poser 6 03/22/2005 06:32 PM
Curious Labs Inc. on Tuesday announced that it is now shipping Poser 6, the latest version of its 3D tool for creating realistic human figures. New features in this upgrade include a revamped user interface, OpenGL hardware acceleration, cartoon outline rendering effects, better support for Flash with user-defined export colors for the Web and more. Poser 6 also offers two new lighting tools: ambient occlusion, which creates photorealistic soft shadows, and image-based lighting, which uses a photograph or an image map to light 3D scenes and make them appear as if they're part of a real-world environment.

US Patent and Trademark Office Nixes
Eolas Browser Plug-in Patent

US Patent and Trademark Office Nixes
Eolas Browser Plug-in Patent 03/06/2004 01:59 AM

Chinese Patent Office Grants Fingerprint
Recognition Hardware Patent

Chinese Patent Office Grants Fingerprint
Recognition Hardware Patent 12/28/2004 11:11 PM
ChinaTechNews.com Dec 29 2004 3:10AM GMT

World Wide Web Consortium Presents the
US Patent Office with Evidence
Invalidating Eolas Patent

World Wide Web Consortium Presents the
US Patent Office with Evidence
Invalidating Eolas Patent 10/30/2003 12:34 AM
World Wide Web Consortium Presents the US Patent Office with Evidence Invalidating Eolas Patent .. se ha presentado en las oficinas de patentes y marcas de los Estados Unidos .. Read the briefing .. News release

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U.S. Patent Office Grants New Patent for
BUGS Carbon Reactivation Technology;
Innovative Biotechnology Solutio

U.S. Patent Office Grants New Patent for
BUGS Carbon Reactivation Technology;
Innovative Biotechnology Solutio 06/17/2005 04:27 PM
Investors Business Daily Jun 16 2005 1:56PM GMT

Eolas browser plug-in patent invalidated
by US Patent Office

Eolas browser plug-in patent invalidated
by US Patent Office 03/08/2004 11:08 PM
The US Patent and Trademark Office has now stepped in and invalidated the Eolas patent. The decision, if it is upheld, will clear Microsoft of charges of wrong-doing.

Patent Office Agrees To Check Into All
That Prior Art On The Eolas Patent

Patent Office Agrees To Check Into All
That Prior Art On The Eolas Patent 11/12/2003 01:35 PM
The latest in the Eolas patent saga is that someone at the Patent Office has finally agreed to review the patent based on stacks and stacks of prior art that people have been finding. Amazingly, the Patent Office appears to have responded quickly (though, they don't say how long it will take for a new decision on the patent) to the requests for a re-examination of the patent. There's a quote from the USPTO's deputy commissioner for patent examination policy saying that this was an "extraordinary situation" which necessitated the quick response. The problem with this statement is that it's not an extraordinary situation. In fact, it's an increasingly common situation, where silly patents are getting the stamp of approval every day - and then used to hold other companies up for extortion, rather than for encouraging innovation.

CyberMonday Midday: Microsoft Settles
Patent Suit with InterTrust; Wireless
Sees Patent Tech as Growth Key: Re

CyberMonday Midday: Microsoft Settles
Patent Suit with InterTrust; Wireless
Sees Patent Tech as Growth Key: Re 04/12/2004 07:26 PM
AVN Online Apr 12 2004 11:05PM GMT

Patent Office to Undertake New Review of
Critical Web Patent

Patent Office to Undertake New Review of
Critical Web Patent 11/13/2003 03:09 AM
BeSpacific Nov 13 2003 1:29AM ET

Silly Patent Of The Day: Adobe Hit With
Lawsuit Over Hyperlink Patent

Silly Patent Of The Day: Adobe Hit With
Lawsuit Over Hyperlink Patent 07/08/2004 05:05 PM
I think it's about time we came up with a new topic/icon for stupid patents. There are just so many of them these days. The latest is that Adobe, who is no stranger to abusing intellectual property rules, is now being hit with a patent over their PDF technology. The patent is for a method of extracting network information via hyperlinks. Reading through the patent, they're basically describing a system for clicking on a hyperlinking and having the system not only download the page in question, but all locally related pages linked from that page as well. Perhaps a useful system, but it seems like this sort of technology was around well before the patent was granted, and it's unclear what it has to do with PDF files.

Patent Office asked to review Microsoft
FAT patent

Patent Office asked to review Microsoft
FAT patent 04/15/2004 05:09 PM
Write open source software - and go to jail

Newly Launched Patent Database Opens
Free Search Access to IBM's Open Source
Software Patent Collection

Newly Launched Patent Database Opens
Free Search Access to IBM's Open Source
Software Patent Collection 02/01/2005 09:16 PM
PatentCafe's Natural Language Based OSS Patent Search Engine™ Accelerates Software Developers' Use of IBM's 500 Pledged Patents. Freely accessible by the entire OSS community, PatentCafe's Open Source Software Patent Search Engine adds significant value to IBM's contribution by accelerating the integration of IBM's patented technology into the marketplace, helping to foster worldwide interoperability standards. [PRWEB Feb 1, 2005]

Patent Office Reviews Disputed Web
Patent

Patent Office Reviews Disputed Web
Patent 11/14/2003 04:41 AM
BizReport.com Nov 14 2003 4:18AM ET

The Patent Office is going to re-examine
the Eolas patent

The Patent Office is going to re-examine
the Eolas patent 11/13/2003 08:53 AM

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Patent office to re-examine Eolas patent

Patent office to re-examine Eolas patent 11/12/2003 01:14 PM

Eolas patent defended before US patent
office

Eolas patent defended before US patent
office 05/13/2004 07:48 AM
Computer Weekly May 13 2004 12:23PM GMT

US Patent Office Grants Special Patent
Status to Private Inventor Regarding
Alleged Technology Infringement by
Acterna Corporation’s DSAM 2500 Cable
Modem Tester

US Patent Office Grants Special Patent
Status to Private Inventor Regarding
Alleged Technology Infringement by
Acterna Corporation’s DSAM 2500 Cable
Modem Tester 09/27/2004 03:30 AM
Richard C. Jaworski announces that the US Patent Office has granted his “Petition to Make Special” on his System of Testing the Upstream Cable Modem Channel (TUCMC) patent application. The petition to the US Patent Office alleged infringement of his technology by Acterna Corporation in their DSAM 2500 Cable Modem Test Instrument. Mr. Jaworski has written evidence that Acterna knew of the patent and the technology prior to releasing the feature in the DSAM 2500. According to patent law, triple damages are applicable for prior knowledge infringement as soon as the patent issues. Due to its special status, Jaworski expects the patent to issue in the immediate future. [PRWEB Sep 27, 2004]

Whose Patent Is It, Anyway?

Whose Patent Is It, Anyway? 03/14/2005 06:16 PM
In one sector after another, companies warn that China's swift industrial rise is being greased by brazen and increasingly sophisticated theft of intellectual property.

The Patent Mess

The Patent Mess 05/03/2004 12:08 PM
MSNBC is running yet another article that looks at problems with the patent system, focusing on the problem we most discuss around here: small intellectual property houses that buy up perfectly obvious patents, or those with prior art, and then go around threatening small sites to get them to pay up rather than fight the ridiculous patent. In most cases, the patent is for taking some sort of obvious action and moving it onto the internet. Even a strong defender of patent rights admits in the article that the "pendulum may have swung too far." No one is saying their shouldn't be patents, but there are way too many cases where these sorts of patents are clearly being used to hold back innovation - which is against the very point of the patent system.

Patent popourri

Patent popourri 04/12/2004 02:14 PM
Microsoft cuts another big check, this time to InterTrust, while AMD settles with Integraph. Patent disputes have become so commonplace that there are even firms that specialize in licensing intellectual property for the sole purpose of litigation.

Microsoft Goes After Another XML Patent

Microsoft Goes After Another XML Patent 02/12/2004 04:50 PM
Microsoft has been granted a patent for XML script automation.

Eolas Patent Taken Away

Eolas Patent Taken Away 03/06/2004 02:05 AM
The patent office finally got one right (though, it took quite a while). Despite tons of prior art, and a patent that was far from "non-obvious", Eolas convinced a judge to award them over half a billion dollars from Microsoft for using embedded applications within IE. Microsoft started talking about changing the browser in a way that would have broken many web sites. After quite a bit of outcry from many different places, the patent office finally agreed to review the patent, and on second thought, are now rejecting the Eolas patent. Did it really need to take this much time, this many lawyers and this much outcry just to get a single bad patent reviewed and rejected? Isn't it about time we fixed the patent system?

Xbox 2 Patent?

Xbox 2 Patent? 01/05/2005 06:37 PM

P2P Spoofing Patent?

P2P Spoofing Patent? 05/09/2004 03:26 AM

Some years ago, a collegue of mine asked me how I would stop music pirating.  I haven't thought about the problem before but it took me only a minute to decide P2P spoofing was the best intermediate answer.  It was obvious that traditional DRM wouldn't work and spoofing attacked the problem at reasonable cost, could be deployed fast, and adapt to changes in real time.  My collegue nodded and that was that.

According to Wired, someone had the exact same idea and filed a paten t in 2000.  Now I am scratching my head.  Is this a silly patent or not?  Should I be filing patents on similar ideas?  Heck, I can pump out enough ideas like that everyday to keep an army of patent lawyers busy if someone would just keep throwing problems at me and file my answers as patents.  I even have ideas on how to efficiently generate new patents.  Maybe I'll even best IBM at the game.

If you are an idle patent lawyer, come to me and I'll keep you busy.  How does 50-50 sound?  Filing cost?  No problem.  Let private investors place 'bets' on the patent applications they like out of daily streams of patent applications.  Together we'll worsen the patent problem ten-fold within a year and force the Congress to come up with a better solution.  Now that's a silver-spoon full of patriotism for ya.  :-)

Who Says You Can't Patent Watching TV?

Who Says You Can't Patent Watching TV? 07/21/2004 08:22 PM
theodp writes "EFF attorney Jason Schultz offers his take on Microsoft's new patent for encouraging viewers to watch television programs." Another day, another weird TV related patent from Microsoft. This one seems to focus on some sort of weird incentive program for getting people to watch more TV. Why is this patentable?

Phishmark Patent

Phishmark Patent 05/10/2004 09:58 PM

I found out last Friday that the Phishmark idea is likely to be covered by a patent filed by PassMark two years ago.  Although I haven't read their patent application yet, discussion with Louie Gasparini, CTO of PassMark, made it clear that the broad languages used in the patent covers not just use of user/site specific visuals on the webpages for website authenticity, but also use of user/device-specific visuals in client-software for verification of UI authenticity.

Since I never planned to patent Phishmark and have many other ideas to pursue, I am not planning to disputing PassMark's patent.  If you have planned to use Phishmark in your product already, I advise you to talk to PassMark.  I am sorry if this turn of event affects your product.  As for me, I'll have to credit one of my clients for the hours I spent implementing it.

Does this upset me?  Not really.  Anyone can have ideas and I have more than others.  Execution is important too but I care more about people and how ideas affect their lives.  Phishmark was a good idea, but someone else had a similar idea and had the courage to follow through.  Yes, the situation is rather awkward, but not uncommon.

As they say, if your pants are uncomfortable, keep walking.

More Patent Funnies

More Patent Funnies 02/01/2005 09:44 PM
Perhaps just now it’s unfashionable to grumble about patents, given that Sun and IBM are showering the world with bucketfuls of ’em (and a fine thing, too), but if you want a loud, ugly, wake-up call, start at VarChars, which is offered by someone who apparently wishes to be known only as “rayg”. Samples: IBM Receives Patent for Using Regular Expressions to Extract Information from Documents, Google Receives Patent for Highlighting of Search Results, and Microsoft Attempts to Patent Object Persistence. Read on for some predictably-negative commentary and—gasp!—a look inside some incredibly-advanced Google technology...

Junk patent

Junk patent 05/06/2004 12:17 AM
USA Today May 6 2004 4:19AM GMT

EU patent law not to proceed after all?

EU patent law not to proceed after all? 05/15/2004 08:25 AM

Patent Reform

Patent Reform 04/11/2005 08:52 AM
Steve Lohr: I.B.M. Hopes to Profit by Making Patents Available Free

Patent Assignments on the Web

Patent Assignments on the Web 01/27/2004 12:10 AM
BeSpacific Jan 27 2004 4:08AM GMT

That Microsoft XML Patent

That Microsoft XML Patent 06/05/2005 11:19 PM

The coverage from ZDNet says the patent is for the conversion of objects into XML files; but if you read the patent itself, the important “Claim 1” doesn’t even mention XML, it’s just about serializing objects based on using an annotated source file and a schema. I was trying to find a way to write about this without becoming shrill and using bad language, but failing. Fortunately, I ran across a good opinion, shrill but not obscene, penned by Greg Aharonian who’s a real actual patent lawyer and thus qualified. Herewith a little bit of my own shrillness, followed by Greg’s professional evisceration of this extreme case of patent bogosity. [Update: slight correction regarding Don Box.]...

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