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99 Articles match "Patents","Technology"
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Earlier this month, Azusa-based CFX Battery , a stealthy battery technology spinout from Caltech, announced it had raised a new round of funding worth $14.2M. This week, the firm announced that it was renaming itself Contour Energy (www.contourenergy.com)--and said it was ready to talk about what its battery technology is all about. What's the story behind the new name, and what can you tell us about your technology?
Joe Fisher , the firm's CEO, sat down with us and explained what Contour Energy is all about.
Joe, Joe, thanks for the time.
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Thursday, March 4, 2010
I’ve worked with 30+ early-stage companies in all sorts of capacities (and spoken to many, many more), so I thought it might be worthwhile trying to classify the various ways that I’ve engaged in different technology roles in startups. Background This post partly really came about as a result of a great conversation yesterday with David Croslin a former CTO at HP who recently conducted an interesting experiment. He posted on several social networking sites the following message: If you know of a startup company that could benefit from the knowledge, experience, professional
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Newport Beach-based Acacia Research , which aggressively acquires and licenses patents, said today that it has acquired two patent portfolios, made up of 24 U.S. patents, 7 U.S. patent applications, and 18 foreign patents, from a "major" technology company. The firm said the patents cover storage networks and disk array systems. Name of the firm it acquired the patents from was not disclosed, however, Acacia said the patents cover storage area network (SAN) architecture, data storage, and monitoring, as well as disk array systems, disk drive interfaces,
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Thursday, March 4, 2010
I’ve worked with 30+ early-stage companies in all sorts of capacities (and spoken to many, many more), so I thought it might be worthwhile trying to classify the various ways that I’ve engaged in different technology roles in startups. Background This post partly really came about as a result of a great conversation yesterday with David Croslin a former CTO at HP who recently conducted an interesting experiment. He posted on several social networking sites the following message: If you know of a startup company that could benefit from the knowledge, experience, professional
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Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Santa Barbara-based InTouch Technologies , which develops robotic telepresence sysetms for the health care industry, revealed this morning that it has settled a legal dispute with HeadThere Inc. over the firm's patents. According to InTouch Technologies, HeadThere has agreed to cease its alleged infringing activities--including promotion and sale of its products in the US--and both companies InTouch has also granted HeadThere a limited license to its certain U.S. patents, for products to be sold outside the United States.
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Monday, September 22, 2008
Pasadena-based X1 Technologies, which develops enterprise search software, said Monday that it has received a patent for technology in its products. Patent 7,424,510, entitled "Methods and Systems for Web Based Incremental Searches," covering its method of displaying search results. The patent names Idealab's Bill Gross and Steven Lee Colwell as inventors, and was originally filed by the firm in September According to the firm, it received U.S The patent is behind X1's incremental search technology, which refines searches as a user types in each character of
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Monday, March 23, 2009
Pasadena-based X1 Technologies , a developer of enterprise and PC search software, has scored a new patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark office, the firm said today. X1 said the patent covers technology for the incremental searching used in its user interface. According to the firm, the patent, No. 7,496,559, is the third for the company.
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Thursday, September 24, 2009
San Diego-based Illumina said today that it has been served with a complaint alleging patent infringement, from Carlsbad-based Life Technologies . According to Illumina, it is being sued by Life Technologies, Applied Biosystems, a Russian research institute, and the holders of patents which Life Technologies said are being infringed upon by Illumina in its Genome Analyzer System. The patents in Illumina said it will "defend this suit vigorously" claiming that the claims are "unfounded". Patents 5,616,478; 5,958,698; and 6,001,568.
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Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Irvine-based Integrien , a developer of IT performance analytics software, announced this morning that it has received another patent on its technology. The firm said that the patent is the second issued for the firm, which has another 11 additional patent applications. The patent is U.S. Patent 7,620,523, entitled "Nonparametric method for determination of anomalous event states in complex systems exhibiting non-stationarity", and named Mazda A. Marvasti and Daniel R.
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Patent for its malware detection technology. The patent, number 7,607,171, is entitled "Virus detection by executing e-mail code in a virtual machine" and names Walter L. Green as inventors; it appears the patent stems from M86 Security's acquisition of Avinti, a malware detection firm, in March of 2009. M86 said that the technology covered Orange-based M86 Security , a developer of web security software, reported today that it has received a U.S. Marsden and David E.
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Thursday, February 12, 2009
Los Angeles-based Stamps.com , which operates an Internet-based postage service, has scored a new patent, covering the firm's cryptography systems. The patent, number 7,490,065, was granted to Craig L. The patent was granted Tuesday by the U.S. Ogg and William W. Chow, and was first filed in October of 2000.
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Friday, December 19, 2008
Los Angeles-based j2 Global Communications, which provides online FAX and related services, announced Thursday that it has received validation of two of the firm's patents, covering the firm's FAX technology. Patent and Trademark Office has granted it two official Reexamination Certifications for patents covering its fax technology, patents number 6,208,638 and 6,597,688. According to the firm, the U.S. The firm also said it has been granted summary judgement in a patent counterclaim filed against the firm by Venali, the target of two patent lawsuits by j2.
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Aliso Viejo-based Networks In Motion , which develops wireless navigation software, announced Tuesday that the firm has scored a new patent on its technology. The firm said the patent covers technology used to keep its online director of businesses and entertainment venues up to date. Patent and Trademark Office, the patent--number 7,486,958--was granted on February 3rd, and names Michael A. According to the U.S. Sheha, Angie Sheha, and Stephen Petilli as inventors.
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