Intel grants P4 license to Acer Labs. intel grants p4 license to acer labs. Intel Corp. has granted Acer Laboratories Inc. a license to make Pentium 4 chipsets, which should hit the market in Q3. Acer Labs president Chin Wu told EE Times that Acer is free to support either Direct Rambus DRAM or double-data-rate (DDR) SDRAM....

Patent is Granted for System Architecture That Detects Intruders and Pursues Them. patent is granted for system architecture that detects intruders and pursues them....

3Com Granted Injunction Against Xircom for Patent Infringement. 3com granted injunction against xircom for patent infringement. In a decision that went largely unreported in the technology world, the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah granted a Motion for Preliminary Injunction brought by 3Com Corporation against Xircom Corporation, for Xircom's patent infringement with its products RealPort and RealPort2. 3Com promptly posted the required bond with the U.S. District Court to put the injunction into effect. The injunction was granted after the Court listened to many hearings, expert testimony, extensive discovery and the opportunity for Xircom to present its defenses to the claims....

Patent Granted for Digital Camera Mounted on Gun. patent granted for digital camera mounted on gun. A patent has been granted for a "fully integrated compact digital camera" mounted on a telescopic scope, or on a sight on a handgun, that automatically snaps a photograph of the target when the trigger on the gun is pulled. A patent has been granted for a "fully integrated compact digital camera" mounted on a telescopic scope, or on a sight on a handgun, that automatically snaps a photograph of the target when the trigger on the gun is pulled....

Creative Group of Patents Granted. creative group of patents granted. Harry Linden, of Santa Barbara, California, has invented and been granted a patent for a heart rate monitor that is mounted on a pair of eyeglasses and which feeds the reading into the bottom of one of the lenses of the wearer's eyeglasses....

Google.cn granted license for operation in China. google china....

The problem is how both investors and customers react to the news that Apple may have failed to report the backdating of stock option grants to its key executives, perhaps CEO Steve Jobs among them. Corporate executives are often granted stock options as part of their regular compensation, and many businesses contend that granting options in lieu of cash is a cost-saving measure that benefits shareholders. In other words, Apple doesn’t know how much its executives earned on account of backdated option grants, the amount of which should have been reflected in its quarterly statements for the past four years, but which today’s announcement indicates was not. That backlash could subside if the SEC’s investigation turns up dozens more well-known institutions suspected of not reporting their backdated option grants, in which case, Apple would be just one among the multitude....

Redmond (WA) - Acknowledging that the European Commission did grant Microsoft access to documents pertaining to the EC’s communications with the monitoring trustee it appointed to evaluate Microsoft’s compliance with its 2004 antitrust ruling, Microsoft accused the EC, in a Supplemental Response this morning, of secretly collaborating with four companies, apparently to sway the opinion of... The documents to which Microsoft claims it was denied access, and which the company was finally granted permission to see on 13 February, in the words of today’s Supplemental Response, "reveal that the Commission has been conducting its investigation of Microsoft’s compliance in secret collaboration with Microsoft adversaries and in violation of its own rules for communication with the Tr... As evidence, Microsoft sites an e-mail from an EC case lawyer to a Microsoft attorney, stating that the four companies in question had all been granted licenses to see Microsoft’s source code, and that their observations about that code had already been written down in a non-confidential statement to Microsoft. These are just some of the allegations Microsoft makes in its Supplemental Response, including one that the representative of company [1], which the Response describes as "in fact not a competitor in the work group server operating system market that is the subject of the 2004 Decision," and which was granted access to shared source code through the EU’s license, was actually not an enginee......

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office reported a new record of patents granted in 2006. 173,772 patents were issued during the time frame. Wilmington (DE) - The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office reported a new record of patents granted in 2006. 173,772 patents were issued during the time frame. The Netherlands has one listing (Philips). "2006 panned out as a banner year in terms of the number of individual patents granted and leads us to believe that the USPTO is making headway in addressing its backlog of patent applications," said Darlene Slaughter, general manager of IFI Patent Intelligence. Although the number of patents being granted is not the only gauge of technological advancement, the relative increase in number of patents being generated indicates a growing emphasis on the value of intellectual property," she said....