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• Unocal to Publicize RFG Patents, Halt Enforcement

  - 2005-06-22

  Unocal will stop enforcing its reformulated gasoline RFG patents and release them to the public under a settlement reached with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission FTC.Unocal will stop enforcing its reformulated gasoline RFG patents and release them to the public under a settlement reached with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission...

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• SETTLEMENT RESOLVES RFG PATENT MESS, CLEARS CHEVRON'S BUY OF UNOCAL

  - 2005-06-20

  Unocal will stop enforcing its RFG patents and release them to the public, according to a settlement reached with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission FTC. The consent order, issued as part of Chevron's acquisition of the upstream oil company, settles the Unocal will stop enforcing its RFG patents and release...

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• California Joins States in Patent Case against Unocal.

  - 2004-01-16

  By Dale Kasler, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 16--Joined by 21 other states, California officials pressed their case Thursday against a series of patents the Unocal Corp. obtained a decade ago on the recipe for cleaner-burning gasoline. ...

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• Refinery feels heat over clean-burning gas.(News)(the FTC claims that Union Oil Company of California has illegally attained monopoly power)

  - 2003-03-17

  Byline: Joe Truini The Federal Trade Commission claims that a California refinery illegally attained monopoly power in the California clean-burning gasoline market by duping state regulators. According to the FTC's March 4 complaint, Uni ...

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• FTC sues Unocal over California cleaner-gas patents

  - 2003-03-05

  The Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint Tuesday accusing the Unocal Corp. of fraudulent and anticompetitive practices in obtaining patents for the production of cleaner-burning gasoline. In a suit filed with an administrative law judge at the agency, the FTC contends that Unocal, which is based in...

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• ATTORNEY: FTC WOULD HAVE NOTED PTO'S REJECTION OF UNOCAL PATENTS

  - 2003-01-27

  It has been 18 months since the U.S. Federal Trade Commission FTC first received requests from oil companies and state officials to investigate allegations of unfair competition resulting from Unocal's gasoline patents. When conducting such an investigation, FTC staff takes note of developments in the marketplace and at other branches...

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• PTO BASES SECOND REJECTION OF UNOCAL PATENTS ON OBVIOUSNESS

  - 2003-01-27

  On Dec. 28, the U.S. PTO issued its second rejection of Unocal's '393 patent for RFG on the basis of obviousness. Secs. 102b and 103a of U.S. patent law formed the basis for the rejections, the examination papers showed. On Dec. 28, the U.S. PTO issued its second...

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• Second Unocal RFG patent gets rejection. (Top of the News).(U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Unocal Corp.)(Brief Article)

  - 2002-08-01

  In July, the United States Patent and Trademark Office Preliminarily rejected El Segundo, Calif.-based Unocal Corp.'s "126" patent for reformulated gasoline, Reuters reported, but the company said it expects that its RFG patents will survive the review process. "An initial rejection of the...

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• U.S. PATENT OFFICE REJECTS UNOCAL'S '393 PATENT CLAIMS

  - 2002-02-25

  U.S. oil companies caught the first break in their battle against Unocal's RFG patents when the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office PTO announced Tuesday it was rejecting Unocal's '393 patent. The decision comes 10 months after the PTO agreed to re-exam U.S. oil companies caught the first break...

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• U.S. PATENT OFFICE TO RE-EXAMINE A SECOND UNOCAL GASOLINE PATENT

  - 2002-02-04

  Unocal Corp.'s '126 gasoline patent, one of the company's five highly debated RFG patents, will face re-examination by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office PTO. The '126 patent will be re- examined because of a "substantial new question of paten Unocal Corp.'s '126 gasoline patent, one of the...

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