Date: Mon, 2011-02-14
Ulaanbaatar – CEO meets with Mr. Burak C. Inanc, Deputy Resident Country Director for Mongolia, MCC and Mr. Mangal, Director, Clean Air project, MCA Mongolia today.
Date: Fri, 2011-02-11
Ulaanbaatar – Ms. D. Nergui meets with Mr. Santsar, who created a technology that can help to increase energy and heat efficiency and reduce air pollution. This meeting was also attended by two other M-ICP staff.
Date: Wed, 2011-02-09
Ulaanbaatar – Ms. D. Nergui attends the Mongolia Green Building Council Board meeting held in Central tower today. The MGBC which is a newly established NGO is aiming to create a system of green building rating and certification, accelerate an advocacy and training on the importance of green building and start implementing number of projects and programs that can increase energy and heat efficiency, reduction of air pollution, including CO2 emission towards the creation of comfortable and healthy living and working environment.
Date: Wed, 2011-02-09
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – February 9, 2011 – M·CAM, Inc. released its Patently Obvious™ report today on the patent holdings of Microsoft highlighted in Microsoft Corporation v. TiVo Inc.
On January 24, 2011, Microsoft accused TiVo, Inc. of infringement of four of its patents related to television set-top box software in two separate settings. A lawsuit in the Western District of Washington was filed concurrently with an ITC complaint seeking to prevent TiVo from importing set-top boxes and DVRs. Microsoft is accusing TiVo of using technology covered by the asserted Microsoft patents in its TiVo Premiere XL, TiVo HD and TiVo HD XL products.
These allegations are the latest barrage in an ongoing legal battle between the two companies. Microsoft was brought in as an intervenor by AT&T in an infringement case filed by TiVo in August of 2009. Microsoft was implicated in the suit as the AT&T boxes accused of infringing TiVo’s patents run Microsoft’s Mediaroom software, of which AT&T is the largest consumer. Possibly sensing a serious threat to its business, Microsoft filed a suit of its own in January of 2010, claiming TiVo’s boxes infringed on two of its patents.
Using the M·CAM DOORS™ analytic platform, an intellectual property analysis of the ”˜258 patent was conducted in order to understand its strength and defensibility in the face of prior and concurrent art innovation. The innovation space surrounding the ”˜258 patent and its patent family members was examined to determine which patent or patents may provide alternatives to or alter the value of Microsoft’s holdings.
The question stands: are Microsoft’s infringement claims against TiVo valid, or will potential weaknesses in its asserted patents backfire and injure Microsoft’s portfolio?
M·CAM’s Patently Obvious™ is a weekly report providing visibility into potentially unconsidered alternatives, including art in the public domain, to patent holdings across a variety of technology areas.
M·CAM, Inc. is a global, full-service intellectual property and rights (IP&R) and intangible asset financial services firm. We provide the technical and financial systems that allow public and private markets to use IP&R and IA for regulated transactions in banking, securities, insurance, and public innovation investment and technology procurement. From our pioneering work in creating the world’s first standards-based innovation collateralization financial products for banking and securities to our work in grassroots innovator enablement and patent quality assurance programs, M·CAM provides the mechanism to balance the interests of public and commercial sectors to support and build thriving economies.
The M·CAM Patently Obvious™ report on the Microsoft patent can be found HERE.
Date: Fri, 2011-02-04
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – February 4, 2011 – M·CAM, Inc. released its Patently Obvious™ report today on the patent holdings of Sharp Corporation highlighted in Sharp Corporation v. AU Optronics Corp. et al.
On January 24, 2011, Sharp filed two complaints claiming infringement of seven of its LCD-related patents. A lawsuit was filed in Delaware against AU Optronics Corp. and a complaint was filed with the ITC naming AU Optronics, BenQ Corp., Haier Group, LG Electronics, SANYO Electric Co., TCL Corp. and VIZIO, Inc. Sharp has previously tested the litigation waters with one of these seven properties: U.S. Pat. No. 7,057,689 (hereafter ”˜689). In August 2007, Sharp filed an infringement claim in the Eastern District of Texas against Samsung. The case was finally settled outside of court in February 2010, and Sharp has apparently decided to recycle its ammunition in these new complaints.
Using the M·CAM DOORS™ analytic platform, an intellectual property analysis of the ”˜689 patent was conducted in order to understand its strength and defensibility in the face of prior and concurrent art innovation. The innovation space surrounding the ”˜689 patent and its patent family members was examined to determine which patent or patents may provide alternatives to or alter the value of Sharp’s holdings.
The question stands: are Sharp’s infringement claims valid, or will potential weaknesses in its asserted patents backfire and injure Sharp’s portfolio?
M·CAM’s Patently Obvious™ is a weekly report providing visibility into potentially unconsidered alternatives, including art in the public domain, to patent holdings across a variety of technology areas.
M·CAM, Inc. is a global, full-service intellectual property and rights (IP&R) and intangible asset financial services firm. We provide the technical and financial systems that allow public and private markets to use IP&R and IA for regulated transactions in banking, securities, insurance, and public innovation investment and technology procurement. From our pioneering work in creating the world’s first standards-based innovation collateralization financial products for banking and securities to our work in grassroots innovator enablement and patent quality assurance programs, M·CAM provides the mechanism to balance the interests of public and commercial sectors to support and build thriving economies.
The M·CAM Patently Obvious™ report on the Sharp patent can be found HERE.
Date: Tue, 2011-02-01
Ulaanbaatar – CEO meets with S. Erdene, MP today. The main topic of discussion was about the possibility of creation of foundation for TCO/Offset introduction in Mongolia which can help the country to increase its technology capacity and more investment opportunities in diverse economic sectors.
Date: Thu, 2011-01-27
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – January 27, 2011 – M·CAM, Inc. released its Patently Obvious™ report today on the patent holdings of Walker Digital highlighted in Walker Digital LLC v. Activision Inc. et. al.
On January 3, 2011, Walker Digital, an IP focused company well known for cases against Microsoft and Facebook, filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Zynga, Activision and the latter’s subsidiary Blizzard Entertainment. The asserted patent, U.S 6,425,828 (hereafter ”˜828), claims a method for conducting a networked electronic tournament for a plurality of players and storing player information for use in subsequent sessions. Zynga (FarmVille), Activision (Call of Duty and Guitar Hero) and Blizzard (World of Warcraft) are giants in the online gaming industry. Though many of the games developed by these companies offer or require unique player accounts, they do not seem to fall under the standard definition of a tournament.
Using the M·CAM DOORS™ analytic platform, an intellectual property analysis of the ”˜828 patent was conducted in order to understand its strength and defensibility in the face of prior and concurrent art innovation. The innovation space surrounding the ”˜828 patent and its patent family members was examined to determine which patent or patents may provide alternatives to or alter the value of Walker Digital’s holdings.
The question stands: are Walker Digital’s infringement claims against these gaming companies valid, or will potential weaknesses in its asserted patent backfire and injure Walker Digital’s portfolio?
M·CAM’s Patently Obvious™ is a weekly report providing visibility into potentially unconsidered alternatives, including art in the public domain, to patent holdings across a variety of technology areas.
M·CAM, Inc. is a global, full-service intellectual property and rights (IP&R) and intangible asset financial services firm. We provide the technical and financial systems that allow public and private markets to use IP&R and IA for regulated transactions in banking, securities, insurance, and public innovation investment and technology procurement. From our pioneering work in creating the world’s first standards-based innovation collateralization financial products for banking and securities to our work in grassroots innovator enablement and patent quality assurance programs, M·CAM provides the mechanism to balance the interests of public and commercial sectors to support and build thriving economies.
The M·CAM Patently Obvious™ report on the Walker Digital patent can be found HERE.
Date: Thu, 2011-01-20
Ulaanbaatar. Ms. D. Nergui attended a meeting held on new TV bi-weekly discussion group led by EBI Think Thank Institute today. This new TV discussion group is aiming to encourage citizen’s initiative though series of TV programs based on case studies and other innovative methods. The core discussion group consists of well known individuals and researchers in different fields. As agreed the “Think Thank Idea” studio led by Mr. G. Oyunbat jointly with C1 and NBS TV will form the core research and operational team and the EBI Think Thank will form the core impact evaluation team.
Date: Thu, 2011-01-20
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – January 20, 2011 – M·CAM, Inc. released its Patently Obvious™ report today on the patent holdings of Kolomoki Mounds highlighted in Gooseberry Natural Resources LLC v. Advance Magazine Publishers Inc et al.
In June of 2010, a company going by the name of Gooseberry Natural Resources LLC initiated patent infringement lawsuits against several small online press release services, claiming that they infringed on their patented method of generating a press release online. The independent defendants attempted to fight back, pointing out a number of prior art examples on the web from before the patent was ever filed. Interestingly, this lawsuit was eventually voluntarily dismissed by the plaintiff by the end of 2010: having tested the waters of patent litigation, Gooseberry now set its sights on bigger targets.
On December 1, 2010, Gooseberry Natural Resources initiated a patent infringement lawsuit using the same patent against larger online news services including Digg, Fark, TechCrunch, Newsvine, and Yahoo, alleging infringement of its “system and method for structured news release generation and distribution.”
Using the M·CAM DOORS™ software platform, the innovation space surrounding U.S. Patent No. 6,370,535 was examined in order to understand its strength and defensibility in the face of prior and concurrent art innovations.
M·CAM’s Patently Obvious™ is a weekly report providing visibility into potentially unconsidered alternatives, including art in the public domain, to patent holdings across a variety of technology areas.
M·CAM, Inc. is a global, full-service intellectual property and rights (IP&R) and intangible asset financial services firm. We provide the technical and financial systems that allow public and private markets to use IP&R and IA for regulated transactions in banking, securities, insurance, and public innovation investment and technology procurement. From our pioneering work in creating the world’s first standards-based innovation collateralization financial products for banking and securities to our work in grassroots innovator enablement and patent quality assurance programs, M·CAM provides the mechanism to balance the interests of public and commercial sectors to support and build thriving economies.
The M·CAM Patently Obvious™ report on the Kolomoki Mounds patent can be read here
Date: Tue, 2011-01-18
Ulaanbaatar. Ms. D. Nergui attends the Roundtable discussion on Environmental Sciences for Development of Mongolia in the Government House today. The Roundtable was jointly organized by the Mongolian Academy of Sciences and the Standing Committee on Social Policy, Education, Culture and Sciences of the Parliament. Key note speakers (Dr. J. Amgalan, Dr. S. Enkhbat, Dr. J. Temuujin, Dr. P. Enkhbat and Dr. B. Purevsuren) made presentations on the following topics (i) Results of scientific research in Physics-Mathematics-Chemistry; (ii) The use of Nuclear energy in Mongolia; (iii) Material study for Mongolia development; (iv) Applied mathematics at present and its prospects; (v) Manufacturing possibility of coking coals of Tavan tolgoi and other coal mines and its prospects. M-ICP CEO made some comments during this discussion, including ways to advance scientific research activities and research commercialization through introduction of offset/TCO mechanism, increasing budget support and creation of a needed information database.
Date: Mon, 2011-01-17
Ulaanbaatar. Representatives of major construction, construction material manufacturing, energy, eco building and innovation and technology companies, financial sector, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, professional NGOs agreed to establish a Mongolia Green Building Council today. One of the main goals of this NGO would be to advocate for green development through green building initiative which can contribute to sustainable development of the country. Mr. Da. Ganbold, Vice Mayor of Ulaanbaatar city and Ms. Ulaan, Staff of the Ministry of Roads, Transport, Construction and Urban Development attended this meeting by the invitation of coordinators of this initiative. Founding members agreed to appoint Mr. Da. Ganbold as Chairman and Ms. D. Nergui as Director General of MGBC.
Date: Thu, 2011-01-13
Ulaanbaatar. Ms. Nergui, M-ICP and Ms. Erdenechimeg, Khungun Beton met with Mr. Munkhuu, Director General, Energy International (EI) and Mr. Badral, Director of EI. EI executives kindly agreed to join the MGBC founding meeting to be held on Monday of 17 Jan 2011.
Date: Thu, 2011-01-13
Date: Wed, 2011-01-12
Ulaanbaatar. CEO meets with Ms. Cathy Silverstein, QED Group today. The meeting was about challenges of Mongolia in the area of financial sector and private sector development.
Ulaanbaatar. Ms. D. Nergui meets with Mr. B. Batnyam, Director of MonEnCo about possible cooperation in the area of technology and vendor qualification for their planned power station and finding low cost capital solutions.
Date: Tue, 2011-01-11
Ulaanbaatar. M-ICP CEO meets with Ms. Erdenechimeg, Chairman of Khungun Beton which is one of largest construction material manufacturing company and Ms. Oyungerel, Director, Local Solution NGO in Central tower. The major topic of discussion was find ways to contribute to increasing heat efficiency and reducing air pollution through citizen’s initiative. It was agreed to establish Mongolia Green Building Council and Ms. Nergui was kindly tasked to coordinate this initiative.
Date: Tue, 2011-01-11
Ulaanbaatar. M-ICP Chief meets with Mr. Otgochuluu, Director of Economic Policy and Competitiveness Research Center on possibility of establishing a Mongolia Green Building Council.
Date: Mon, 2011-01-10
Ulaanbaatar. CEO met with Ms. Enkhbayar, CEO of Mongolian Mortgage Corporation today. They discussed about possible cooperation between the two companies which can aim to add value to further development of the financial sector of Mongolia.
Date: Thu, 2011-01-06
Ulaanbaatar. Ms. D. Nergui meets with Mr. Tuvaandorj and Mr. Adiya, New Century- Energy NGO at their request. The topic of discussion was about their innovative ideas of Ger area improvement through piloting of increasing heat efficiency, greening and community mobilization. This meeting was also attended by Mr. Bat-Erdene and Mr. Enkhbat, M-ICP.
Date: Wed, 2010-12-29
M·CAM, Inc. releases Patently Obvious™ on Industrial Technology Research Institute’s U.S. Patent No. 5,714,247
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – December 29, 2010 –– M·CAM, Inc. released its Patently Obvious™ report today on the patent holdings of the Industrial Technology Research Institute highlighted in Industrial Technology Research Institute et. al. v. LG Corporation et. al. 6:10–cv–00629. LG is no stranger to the courtroom. As one of the most influential consumer electronics companies in the world, LG attracts the attention of companies and individuals looking to get in on a piece of the action. The most recent claim against LG comes from a research group supervised by the Taiwanese Ministry of Economic Affairs. On November 26, 2010, Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) filed four patent infringement complaints against LG. The twenty–two patents in the suits cover technologies relating to air conditioners, Blu–ray disc players, LCDs and mobile phones. The Taiwanese company has some familiarity with the ins and outs of the US patent infringement litigation process as evidenced by the fact that the suits were filed in the Eastern District of Texas, a district notorious for being particularly friendly to patent infringement plaintiffs.
The question stands: are ITRI’s infringement claims against LG valid, or will potential weaknesses in the asserted patents be brought to light which could erode its image as a developer of novel technology? Using the M·CAM DOORS™ software platform, the innovation space surrounding the asserted patents was examined in order to understand their strength and defensibility in the face of prior and concurrent art innovations.
M·CAM’s Patently Obvious™ is a weekly report providing visibility into potentially unconsidered alternatives, including art in the public domain, to patent holdings across a variety of technology areas.
M·CAM, Inc. is a global, full–service intellectual property and rights (IP&R) and intangible asset financial services firm. We provide the technical and financial systems that allow public and private markets to use IP&R and IA for regulated transactions in banking, securities, insurance, and public innovation investment and technology procurement. From our pioneering work in creating the world’s first standards–based innovation collateralization financial products for banking and securities to our work in grassroots innovator enablement and patent quality assurance programs, M·CAM provides the mechanism to balance the interests of public and commercial sectors to support and build thriving economies.
The M·CAM Patently Obvious™ report on Industrial Technology Research Institute v. LG can be found HERE